I'm not a programmer

So I'm not a programmer, and yet of the two people in Black Serenity Studios I'm the one learning to program and set up the game. We've been looking at Unity and Game Salad, and I'm still not sure. Game Salad definately seems the less difficult of the two, however it also doesnt appear to be able to do a lot of things I'd like to be able to do (you know, like all of it). Could be I just havent looked at it enough or learned enough about it, but I know that Unity can do a lot more, what with the fact that the game we use at work and the game thats being built is on Unity, and I'm fairly certain that amongst them they use everything I want to.
Of course Unity is ridiculopusly more difficult. Mostly just because it requires programming skills, where Game Salad uses a more visual thing, putting pre-made blocks of code into apropriate paterns. I've installed Unity to start learning, but I don't know how well that'll go, it would seem that Kit Ironsmith will be a slow project... unless I can grab a winning lottery ticket, wish me luck on that front.

In other news I'm almost finished with writing Hunter book 1; On the Hunt.

I'll have to go back through and edit after, ofc, but I'm almost done.
The Hunter books are about a magically impotent P.I. in a world where 50% of the population have elemental magic powers. Not only that, but he deals almost exclusively with the magically charged where even the police have no idea what to do.
Hunter is the foremost expert on Elemental powers, despite not having any.

If you want to read the prologue and the first two chapters head over to http://www.minority-opinions.com/2012/08/hunting-elements.html and enjoy.

Tubage
- James

Valentine's Day

So I strongly considered ignoring the fact that it's valentine's day and moving onto another subject, partly because I'm single but also because it's a Christian holiday that celebrates one of their saints. However I put in my atheistic notions about Christmas so ignoring Valentine's feels kind of like I'm raising the birth of a person that I believe to be fictional above the life of actual people (specifically Valentine of Rome and Valentine of Terni, though there were many more martyrs by the name of Valentyne)

For me St. Valentine's day isn't about martyrs who died to give christian weddings to soldiers who were forbidden or martyrs who died because they were teaching christianity under the oppressive rule of the Roman empire, its just a day that people can set aside in their relationships to celebrate.

Like their anniversary it's a moment when the celebrations should come from both side, the effort should be equal and heart felt. Often it's not, but it should be.

I see Valentines day as an opportunity to be with the one you love, to show them just how much you care despite all the things they have to put up with on a daily basis, despite work keeping them apart or the day to day life keeping you from showing it, Valentines day is an oportunity to make sure your partner knows just how much you care.

I don't know if thats callous or beautiful, and it most certainly isn't the Atheism opinion as a whole. It's just my opinion, my feeling.

Happy Valentines day everyone. I hope the ones that you most care for and who most care for you show you the way you deserve to be shown.

A-Not-Quite-Love-Song
- James