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//About me
Video games claimed a special place in my heart when I was still young enough to get away with riding in a shopping cart. I remember going to the general store with my mother one day when she rolled me up to a display for the Nintendo64. The game they were demonstrating? The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. My young brain had no idea what was going on-- I missed all the opening cut-scenes and didn't know that resetting the game was a thing-- but I knew right away that this strange machine was something magical.
Fast-forward a decade or two, through the years of staying up too late playing Diablo II, devouring anything related to The Legend of Zelda, and scaring myself silly with Eternal Darkness. I vaguely felt that I wanted video games to be a part of my career, but was wandering aimlessly through my coursework, not quite satisfied with anything I had done so far. Bored one summer, I started bouncing game ideas off a friend. He encouraged me to try my hand at Java again, this time for fun instead of school.
I dragged my feet the best I could. The programming I had done for school was rather simple and uninteresting-- the things I had to do for this game were very confusing and required a lot of Googling. And then one day, I had poked and prodded my mess of code enough to make it spit out a functioning map generator. My hours of labor had produced something I was incredibly excited to keep working on, which had never happened to me before. I then knew what I wanted to do. I wanted to make video games.
//GitHub
Since I tend to use engines instead of starting with my own code, I can't really post much of my game stuff on the internet at this time. However, I do have a GitHub page for any other code I produce and don't mind sharing, and you can find it here!
//Art portfolio
Although I am technically a fledgling engineer, I enjoy tinkering with game art, as well. If you'd like to see my art portfolio, please click here!
//Resume
If you would like the most recent version of my resume, please feel free to email me at critterbucket[at]gmail[dot]com. Otherwise, you can find me on LinkedIn!
