About Me

  Hello so glad to see you. Welcome to my Indie Game studio.

 So Glad to have a site running after months of saying that I will. Maybe you have some Idea of what that's like am I right?

 Okay Let's get into intros. My name is Niza Songolo and I don't know if I should say I'm a game developer. I don't know the criteria for it. You know what, I made three prototype games already so I don't know why I'm doubting.So my name is Niza Songolo and I'm a Game Developer. I run this studio on my own. Well it's just a laptop right now, but when I get to work I usually call it a studio. Don't know why that started

and don't care. But I feel concerned when I see the awesome studios of other Devs on YouTube. However I am writing the list of things I want in my studio and one of them is a swimming pool, indoors. VandaGreen Studios, the third name I've given to my company which has been a dream for 9 years. That's right. 9 years

ago I found this passion to become a Game Developer but never really had a chance to do so for so many reasons. I think I'll write two posts on this later on. I bitter-sweet way, I can say that this dream started becoming real on the 15th of March, 2020. Bitter because I would have started in 2019 instead. But I was going through tough times and I lost self confidence and self esteem as well. And Sweet because I fought through all that and said "What I'm I waiting for?". It's an experience I'd love to share the full details about in time.

 When I was 11 years old when I figured out that "games are made", I found it a place where I could throw all my crazy ambitions such as architecture, story writing, drawing and so on, into a place where I could all that could be combined. together to create something as fun and as engaging. This ultimately became a full time passion that I cultivated in an environment that can most times be a real thorn in flesh for my passion. Thanks for reading if you made it this far.

 

After 9 years and am now 20 years old now. Here I am, I never had local support... oops I forgot to say that I live in Zambia did I? Sorry about that. So yeah I had no local support and or mentorship except for the TV I watched and the games I played to try and understand what is going on. Then March 2020 comes in and months later straight into 2021 and here I am with my very first official website. Amazing right? It gets better.

 

So on this site I'll be posting on 3 Topics as listed below:

Game Dev Diaries. This blog series is just there to show what goes on in my mind. I've never written a diary before or a journal. I write once a week on anything worth typing for this series. Which is related to my game development journey. I think too much so  why not tell people what's on my mind? 

This was the first Blog I started on the the Facebook page. It gave me a push to come here. I also put them here for artistic purposes. So you'll see the first season all funny like. My fault. but still so much fun to read.

Blog. Apart from the series, I still have much to share. I'm a college student and I'm not enjoying my course because I

want to make games. I can share what that's like. Or how I will talk about my first year as a Game Developer later on in March. I have so much to write don't I now?

Games. Been quiet about this. But I will make mention that I will start my game posts soon on this site. 

 There's my summarized intro about me and my studio. Thanks for reading up to the end. I can't wait to get this to the

future with you along side.