[gameprogrammer] Re: Welcome Tanmay.
- From: Alan Wolfe <alan.wolfe@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 17:44:50 -0700
Heya!
I joined this list some number of years ago, dont remember when exactly.
I was a hobbyist game programmer for a while, then a business
programmer for 6 years or so, then finally got a job at a game company
about 4 years ago.
I moved up to Seattle 2 years ago to work for the Midway studio
Surreal up here, then midway went bankrupt, our studio was bought by
warner bros and now im working for monolith / wb games as an animation
and generalist programmer.
I previously was the acting lead of a game called line rider 2 unbound
and got to design and implement most of the server and client stuff
for the content sharing in that game.
I've gotten a lot of info over the years from bob and this list, it is
indeed a good list (:
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Jacob Briggs <nexussix@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 06/08/10 09:44, Bob Pendleton wrote:
>>
>> So, I thought it would be fun if people posted a little bit about
>> themselves, what they are working on, what they want to learn, and we
>> can all help each other get there
>
> Good idea! My name is Jacob, and I am 33 year old scorpio, I enjoy long
> talks over dinner and Sundays drives in the country. I work in software and
> basically most of the time I provide an interface to datas in a database
> through a web browser. I make sure that the datas fit into a narrow
> definition when going either direction, in order to keep the datas making
> sense. Sometimes, a talk to a the users of the system in order to get them
> to tell me what the datas mean and how its captured, what the interface
> should allow them to do and if they want the datas to be treated in any
> special way.
> Other times I define the database that the datas get stored in. I also work
> on the software which acts as a conduit for the datas between the database
> and the interface in the web browser, this conduit is customized for each
> customer and is awesome.
> /Very/ exciting stuff, I can tell you.
>
> I have no personal projects under way. I just can't seem to conjure time to
> indulge in them, except when I am at work or on the train and I can imagine
> the game I wanna make and that is as far as it gets.
>
> Still, I am interested in game dev and I like the discussions that happen
> here. I can live variously through this list. I enjoy playing games a lot,
> games I have enjoyed lately are :
>
> The Saboteur - this game I think was vastly underrated despite a minor lack
> of polish. Its just fun to climb all over Paris blowing stuff up.
>
> GTA IV - another sandbox game, there is a great game underneath all the
> hype.
>
> Fallout 3 - This is awesome but I had my laptop stolen with a savegame with
> about 5 hours on it so I stopped playing :( You can get savegames off the
> net but its just not the same omehow.
>
> Bioshock - Awesome.
>
> I am gonna start playing Bionic Commando, the swing mechanics look awesome
> and with the lead character voiced by Mike Patton how can it be bad?
>
> What do I want to learn? I dunno. I have a goal, I want a sandpit to
> experiment with but I never find the time.
>
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