Plan for James Lupiani

That's right, I'm still alive.

I'm on a collision course with graduation, with a degree in MIS from the College of Business Administration at the University of South Florida. That's what I've been busy with the past year or two. As a result, I'm a little behind the times on news. I'm pleased to see GarageGames and its affiliates doing so well. Even GDMag is giving it some press coverage now!

As soon as I'm done with all the remaining work before I graduate, I've got to start going crazy and looking for a job. I've already found some interesting prospects, but I'm seriously thinking of applying at GarageGames. I read in the latest newsletter they're looking for some people. I've got a background in both PHP/MySQL and working with Torque--so I could help with the web site, and/or I could become an intern and work on the engine. Man, either one would be awesome!

I was hoping to find some enthusiastic people at USF interested in game development, but if they're out there I haven't run into them in my travels--though I have met some very skilled people that I'd love to work with in any sort of systems development projects. The reason I wanted to find local people is that I've had so many headaches trying to keep online teams going. The problem really does have more to do with managing people than game development, and I guess I'll have to revisit solving it once I get more free time. Otherwise I'm on my own.

My problem right now is cash. I've got six months' grace period before I have to start paying back my loans, and in the meantime I'll have no insurance to speak of unless I can get picked up by an employer.