Jay Marriner Blog

Starting my PGCE

22/10/2024

I’ve officially started my PGCE and couldn’t be more excited about the new journey I’m on. For those unfamiliar, the PGCE (Postgraduate Certificate in Education) is the qualification I need t... See more.

Leaving Luminous & Looking for new opportunities.

03/11/2023

In the realm of mixed reality development, my journey at Luminous Group was a pivotal chapter that has recently come to an unexpected close. After 15 months with the company, I find myself at a c... See more.

Connect Four - Masters

03/10/2023

In July I began working part time on my Masters for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. Recently I completed my first module for the course which was to take an existing code base for a brok... See more.

Car Showroom

22/03/2023

A friend presented an interesting challenge about making a car upgrade system that had to comprise of the following:

- Change the colour... See more.

A small farming project...

01/03/2023

For the last week or so I've been working on a small farming game that could potentially be turned into a viable game. Kaan and I have been discussing and developing a few different mechanics and curr... See more.

Improving my code

17/01/2023

Normally I'm not one for making New Years resolutions but for this year I decided to make a push to improve myself by working on personal projects throughout the year. To achieve this I'm going to be ... See more.

Going back to University

26/11/2022

On Wednesday Kaan and I went back to Newcastle College to give a talk on our experiences of getting a job after completing our degrees.
Admittedly I get anxious doing presentations but I still ... See more.

Pathfinding

27/10/2022

Following on from my previous blog post about creating a life simulator; I endeavoured over the last few days to create a system of being able to create cities easily. This would allow both developers... See more.

Life simulator

21/09/2022

For many years I have dreamt of working on a life simulator. I've always found The Sims and others lacking the depth I crave that has only been sated by text based sims such as InstLife ... See more.

My new side-project

07/09/2022

Since getting settled in at work; I have been looking at different side projects to partake in. Whilst I still have my android game to work on; that project often requires waiting multiple days for ap... See more.

My path to getting a job

02/09/2022

Having been out of education for about 3 months now; I had started to worry it may take me quite a while to get a programming job. This led me to signing up for Uber and getting part time work with Pa... See more.

Tempus

03/08/2022

For my final University project I decided to team up with 3 other students and create a linear story RPG. In this post I want to breakdown the project and list what went well, what needed improvement ... See more.

Endless Runner *Update*

02/08/2022

Having started this project nearly 2 months ago - our endless runner game is now really starting to take shape! Although we only work on this project part time we have managed to implement many... See more.

Graduating

18/07/2022

Four years ago I was working for a construction company to become an electrician and then I decided to drop out to pursue my dream of being a programmer!

I joined Newcastle College; enrolling ... See more.

Endless Runner

24/06/2022

A few days ago a friend asked if I would like to work on an endless runner with him; I said yes and got straight to work!

There were a few initial things to consider; first we had to keep the co... See more.

Fiverr...

20/06/2022

Recently I've been looking into freelancing and providing services for people so I can fund a game development business!
One method I've been looking at is fiverr. It seems like it may be quit... See more.

Java Text Adventure

19/06/2022

Over the last few days I decided to refresh my knowledge of the java coding language. With this I created a text adventure game inspired by RuneScape. A text adventure was chosen so I could fully conc... See more.

My most played game

16/06/2022

I've played games since about the age of 3; from The little mermaid 2 on PlayStation one to Cyberpunk on PC (both of which I'm sure I will post about in future).
One game, however, has stuck arou... See more.

Inception!

15/06/2022

In this post I breakdown this website and how it was built with screenshots and additional information on how this site functions behind the scenes.
The first place to start is looking at my origi... See more.

My first post!

15/06/2022

Welcome to my blog, this is my first post! It took me about 2 days work in total to create this site. It comprises of HTML, CSS and PHP. The database used phpmyadmin. If you would like to see the sour... See more.