First Post

This is my first ever post on a blog, my name's Ryan "Ramen" Miles, and I am a computer programmer.  For anyone dropping by, please feel free to follow my posts, as I will be making more and more blogs over the next few days.

I've been working on a program, and came to the realization that I need a way to share it with other people, not just one or two people, and I figured blogger would be one of the best places to start.

I would also like to eventually get some video blogs (vlogs I guess they're known as now), so you guys might be seeing me eventually.  I also want to create some simple tutorials for different programming languages as I move along in classes.  If any of this sounds like a good idea, feel free to post about it.

Over the last month or so I've been working with a simple game engine called Game Maker.  The game itself is fully 2D, and acts as a side scroller.  I'm having a great time making it, and I would like to use this as a blog for updates on this game called Impulse Strike 2 at the moment.

Yes, it's named Impulse Strike 2...there was a previous one which I created with my team for GSP 380 at DeVry University.  Impulse Strike was built completely different, but this one we're hoping to be somewhat of a sequel to Impulse Strike.

I will try to post every time I update the game, however I don't want to flood the blog (even if it's not being read by anyone yet...) with a bunch of silly little update comments.  Also, I will be talking a lot of code, if you don't understand it, just skip it, if you do, I'd be glad to get any amount of input.

It's pretty long for a first blog post...but I hope it works.  :-D