teenLook #5 - October 2019 - Nicole Goodwin
Celebrate the Fall season and all the beauty it has to offer in this issue.
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WHEN NOT IN SCHOOL, OR CHAT-<br />
TING WITH FRIENDS, OR PLAYING<br />
MINECRAFT, OR PLAYING POOL, OR<br />
GETTING SHOT UP DURING AIRSOFT<br />
MATCHES, OR MAKING BOYS CRY<br />
ONLINE WHILE DOMINATING IN COD,<br />
NIKKI FINDS TIME TO DEVELOP GAME<br />
WORLDS. HERE ARE HER THOUGHTS<br />
ABOUT IT!<br />
<strong>teenLook</strong><br />
We have had many conversations, but this is the<br />
first time we have sat down to discuss things so<br />
formally. (laughs)<br />
Nikki<br />
Yeah, a little weird! Haha...<br />
Ok, well, let's try and be serious here now.<br />
(serious voice)<br />
So, tell me, what exactly is it you do as a game<br />
developer?<br />
I am helping build a world and setting for a<br />
game called Far Lands 2 on the Roblox<br />
server.<br />
That sounds pretty cool!<br />
I used to do some game developing myself when<br />
I was your age. -Back when 4k was not the<br />
screen resolution, but rather, it was your computer's<br />
memory. Actually, that's pretty sad...<br />
Ah, ok...<br />
How did you get into that?<br />
Well, Roblox has been around for awhile<br />
and there were always lots of interesting<br />
games to play. I was inspired by the worlds<br />
I played in and thought it would be fun to try<br />
and create my own.<br />
I taught myself how to use Roblox Studio,<br />
and just went from there.<br />
I know the feeling exactly!<br />
How did that lead to you working on<br />
Far Lands 2?<br />
At the time I was playing a popular game<br />
series called "After the Flash"<br />
The developer, Chad the Creator, was<br />
looking for help on a new game, and held a<br />
builder's contest.<br />
I found it online the day before it ended and<br />
just decided to go for it!<br />
Only one day... hmmm, trying to think which day<br />
you stayed home from school because you were<br />
'sick'. Just kidding.<br />
How did you do?<br />
To my surprise I came in first! Chad was<br />
really impressed with my work.<br />
So, from there you started working on the new<br />
series?<br />
Yeah, Chad chose the best three or four<br />
builders and we all started building. He<br />
would post a list of jobs to be done, and we<br />
would choose from it.<br />
How long have you been doing this game building<br />
gig for?<br />
It's been about a year now. I am really<br />
enjoying it!<br />
I felt bad at first because I was so new to<br />
developing and didn't want to be paid.<br />
But obviously you started getting paid, as money<br />
began showing up in my PayPal account.<br />
Sweet!<br />
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