Welcome to Zora’s Game Blog

Here’s where I will share my creative process and game development journey with you via weekly blogs, which I will also be sharing across all of my social media. This may be text, videos, images, etc, depending on what I've been up to!

Zora Kerr 28/2/25 Zora Kerr 28/2/25

#23: The project, managed.

On Monday night, I submitted the 3rd of 3 grant applications for I Am This Castle to (hopefully) commence prototype development in July 2025. I only need one grant application to be successful in order to fund the prototype, and I am extremely confident that at least one of them will be successful the 2nd time around.

Zora Kerr 6/5/24 Zora Kerr 6/5/24

#18: Programmer, Create Thyself

This week I had a phone meeting with Nico King of Chaos Theory Games and came away from it feeling like I will never be alone in my vision of videogames as a way to promote the public good; others are out here pushing just as hard for various other causes, and damn it makes me feel good. This week I’m finally sharing a video of my first Unreal Engine project for my advanced diploma of game development specialising in programming!

Zora Kerr 29/4/24 Zora Kerr 29/4/24

#17: Thus Spoke Zorathustra

Last week I wrapped up my computer graphics subject at AIE, and just today I met with the Arts ACT grants team to fire a bunch of my top questions at them for more information. I’m now feeling very satisfied that I’m going to have a really competitive application!

Zora Kerr 8/4/24 Zora Kerr 8/4/24

#15: The Development of Development

This week I’ve been building a first-person shooter as a technical demonstration while I work through a textbook outside of class. I’ve also been having to think squiggly thoughts about AI art and its problems, like everyone else.

Zora Kerr 3/4/24 Zora Kerr 3/4/24

#14: A Milestone Down The Road

I was slow on my blog update this week after acquitting my story summary and the dialogue for Act 1 to Arts ACT, and I made the decision to postpone applying for the Emerging Gamemakers Fund grant at Screen Australia until July.

Zora Kerr 18/2/24 Zora Kerr 18/2/24

#8: An Unexpected Moment of Punctuality

At 18,000 words in 3 weeks, I’ve finished the first pass of my first draft! There’s a vast ocean of work yet to be done, but I will get it done.

Zora Kerr 15/1/24 Zora Kerr 15/1/24

#3: Keeping tempo

This week I’ve been assembling resources and materials to facilitate the script creation process, and I’ve been thinking about the nature of relationships between things, themes, events and characters.

Zora Kerr 8/1/24 Zora Kerr 8/1/24

#2: Earnest beginnings

I’ve been hard at work planning for the year. Let’s talk about it!

Zora Kerr 31/12/23 Zora Kerr 31/12/23

#1: The start of something big (I hope)

Let's talk about why I'm heading out on this new adventure, and what it is.