isProjectSetup = true;

A lots of steps for amazon employees, a kinda big step for me: I received the book that should help me get started! It's called "Unreal Development Kit Game Programming with UnrealScript: Beginner's Guide" and it's written by Rachel Cordone.

So far, so good: I finished the first chapter, installed everything and created a new project with the UDK. I also created my first custom actor, added it to the example map, and made it print a nice Hello World message in the log. Traditions have been observed.

Well now! Time to delve deeper into UnrealScript, and concurrently, to start thinking about a game idea. I found some video game name or theme generators, some being more interesting than others:

http://videogamena.me/
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9894614/ludumthemes/themegen.html
http://iq212.com/generator.php
http://www.generatorland.com/glgenerator.aspx?id=132&rlx=y

I might go with the second one, since the problem with the other ones is that they might be slightly too descriptive, and I want my creative freedom so I can do my own crap (which hopefully will get better as I practice ;) but I've seen and heard enough that I'm not expecting my first 10 or 100 designs to be awesome).

Getting Started

Hello there! Welcome to this blog.

The objective of this blog is to keep track of my project this semester while I dig into the Unreal Engine, learn how to use it, then start making games with it. I will have roughly three weeks to learn about it, then it's game-making time! A game every three weeks, for a total of 3 games, until the end of the semester (some gamejammers would say that three weeks is too much, but I have plenty of other work to do :)).

My first tasks: order a book about the Unreal engine, download the UDK, and find a random game name generator to help me pick themes.

This is going to be fun :)