Me
I live in England, UK. I studied IT at College and Computer Science at University. During those two courses, I learnt game making in GameMaker 8, basic web development (HTML and CSS), programming languages (C#, C++, Python and "logic"), Microsoft Office, project planning, working in a group, AI bot programming, problem solving and a few other things.
In my own time I learnt more advanced things in GameMaker Studio 1 and 2, game publishing (Apple App Store, Google Play Store and Amazon Appstore), advanced web development (JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, phpMyAdmin and a bit of jQuery), 3D animating/modeling/rigging (Cinema 4D), video editing (Camtasia Studio), a bit of photo editing (Photoshop and Gimp) and Node.js (for a Discord bot).
Other things I enjoy doing include: listening to music, playing video games, watching movies/series and playing sport/board games.
✨ 2022/2023 goals
• Learn Unreal Engine and/or Unity 📚.
• Leave my current part-time job and finally get a Web Dev, Game Dev or Game
Tester job 👨💻.
• Finish updating this website 🌐.
• Release a few miscellaneous games and a few sequels to The Hard Game 👾.
• Release a couple/few more assets, one being BAS (Bluspark Achievements
System) for GameMaker Studio 2 🛠️.
• Release my themes and widgets here 📱.
• Find some singers to sing a Minecraft parody I wrote ages ago 🎤.
✨ 2022 achievements
• (??/??/2022) Released The Hard Game on 3 app stores and 2 Indie Game Dev
stores.
• (??/??/2022) Updated my Patreon tiers.
• (??/??/2022) Found a new database for my Discord bot and updated the code to
work with the latest Discord.js functions 🤖.
• (??/??/2022) Released a few assets, one being VARMS.
✨ 2021 achievements
• Improved my PHP, MySQL and phpMyAdmin skills.
✨ 2020 achievements
• (05/04/2020) Completed my Discord bot 🤖.
• (19/05/2020-13/06/2020) Make a render once a day (for 26 days) of an object
from A to Z. See here.
Bluspark history
The name, Master Bluspark, was born in 2014 (I think). I was holiday (I think) and was thinking about the name Captain Sparklez. I wanted to make a cool name for myself similar to that one so a took "spark", my favourite colour, put them together and then thought of an alternative word for "captain". A little later, I made a higher up company-like name; Bluspark Studio. With my knowledge of website making, I decided to make a website dedicated to my renders and animations that I created in Mine-imator. Yes, that was what I used first for 3D animating and modelling (from mid 2014 to late 2015). I started using Cinema 4D R13 in late 2015. You know the videos I currently have available on my channel? Well, a couple of old ones have been made private (for cringe/embarrassment reasons) and very old one was deleted (it was my first video on the channel, back when it was called Veteran Matty). All of my websites ever made are available on the "Websites" page to the left. Late November or early December of 2021, Bluspark Games was born. I decided to sort of ditch animating and focused on game making since animating was getting me nowhere. It's now late 2022, The Hard Game probably has around 10-20 sales total, Pixelated Store Badges & Console Logos has only 1 sale and VARMS has 0 sales...so this has gone great as well...... Maybe just a very rocky start? We'll see, I guess.
My other YouTube channels
The name of my second channel is called The Dark Angel. I sometimes upload Nightcore songs there. "What is that?" you may be wondering. I take a song, make the speed and pitch higher, add a nice Anime background, display the lyrics, render and then upload it. I also have a third channel which I made when I was quite a bit younger but the name of it is a secret. xD :P
Skills
• Programming
○ HTML
○ CSS
○ JavaScript
○ jQuery (kinda)
○ PHP
○ MySQL
○ Node.js
○ C#
○ C++ (kinda)
○ Java (kinda)
• 3D animating, modelling, lighting and scene setup
• Game making
• Game publishing
• Great UI and UX
• Multitasking
• Problem solving
• Video editing
• Graphic design
• Parody lyric writing
Software knowledge
• Operating systems
○ Windows
○ MacOS
○ Linux (a little bit)
○ Xbox
○ Switch
○ iOS
○ Android
• 3D software
○ Unreal Engine 5 (CURRENTLY LEARNING)
○ MetaHuman (CURRENTLY LEARNING)
○ Cinema 4D
○ Mine-imator
• 2D game making software
○ GameMaker Studio 2
○ GameMaker Studio
○ GameMaker 8
• Graphics software
○ Adobe Photoshop
○ Gimp
○ Paint
• Text editors
○ Atom
○ Notepad++
• Multiple web browsers
• Visual Studio
• Android Studio
• Camtasia Studio
• Camtasia Recorder
• Microsoft Office
• Adobe Soundbooth
Other stuff
I built my own custom gaming PC! 🖥️
I have over 194,000 GamerScore! 🏆
I have completed most Halo games on Legendary! ☠️ (Halo CE Anniversary, 3, 3 ODST, 4, 5 Guardians, Reach, Wars, Wars 2 (including its DLC missions) and Master Chief Collection (excluding the horrific LASO playlists))
I have completed most Call of Duty games on Veteran! ☠️ (2, 3, 4 Modern Warfare, World at War, Modern Warfare 2, Black Ops, Modern Warfare 3, Black Ops 2, Ghosts, Advanced Warfare, Black Ops 3, Infinite Warfare, Modern Warfare Remastered, WW2 and Modern Warfare 2019)
This website's layout was originally made on Wix as I wasn't happy with the current one I had at the time. Later on, I wanted my website to be fully customisable so I decided to code my own version of it. ⌨️
Icons
Download icon: https://www.onlinewebfonts.com/icon/603
Mail icon: https://www.flaticon.com/authors/those-icons
Music Note icon: https://www.flaticon.com/authors/freepik
Contact
Check out the neat "Links" drop down list to the left. :)
