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jvdm
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greetings to all!
my name is Jacques, i'm a South African living and working in picturesque Switzerland. i currently work for a well known IT security company doing DevOps type work. i'm essentially a bundled sysadmin/developer.
i found Gideros a few weeks ago while trawling the interwebs in search of a friendly, approachable game framework that allowed me to publish without having to jump though hoops. the framework looks great and it seems that this community is really nice, and something i'd love to be a part of.
game dev wise, i don't have a lot of experience although i have written a few basic roguelikes in Ruby and Python. at one stage i played around with pygame but nothing really came of it.
i love games, and have been gaming for years. it all started playing arcade game in an actual arcade and progressed to VIC-20, C64, ZX Spectrum etc. and just followed on from there. i used to be an avid pen-and-paper RPGer as well, but unfortunately that fell away after leaving South Africa and my gaming group behind.
i guess the reason why i'm here is to learn from experienced game devs and try my hand at developing and more importantly FINISHING games. i have a number of game ideas and i'm not that bad at drawing purdy pictures. if i could one day leave the realm of DevOps and IT operations in general, and live off game dev then that would be awesome!
i'm really looking forward to meeting everyone and joining in what looks like a rocking little community.
-Jacques
my name is Jacques, i'm a South African living and working in picturesque Switzerland. i currently work for a well known IT security company doing DevOps type work. i'm essentially a bundled sysadmin/developer.
i found Gideros a few weeks ago while trawling the interwebs in search of a friendly, approachable game framework that allowed me to publish without having to jump though hoops. the framework looks great and it seems that this community is really nice, and something i'd love to be a part of.
game dev wise, i don't have a lot of experience although i have written a few basic roguelikes in Ruby and Python. at one stage i played around with pygame but nothing really came of it.
i love games, and have been gaming for years. it all started playing arcade game in an actual arcade and progressed to VIC-20, C64, ZX Spectrum etc. and just followed on from there. i used to be an avid pen-and-paper RPGer as well, but unfortunately that fell away after leaving South Africa and my gaming group behind.
i guess the reason why i'm here is to learn from experienced game devs and try my hand at developing and more importantly FINISHING games. i have a number of game ideas and i'm not that bad at drawing purdy pictures. if i could one day leave the realm of DevOps and IT operations in general, and live off game dev then that would be awesome!
i'm really looking forward to meeting everyone and joining in what looks like a rocking little community.
-Jacques
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With Gideros, your dream of FINISHING a game will come true, the same situation of me 3 months ago.
Wish you to get that feeling soon
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Welcome here Jacques
Website: http://www.castlegateinteractive.com
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Castlegate+Interactive
iPhone? https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/save-my-toys/id593292899?l=en&ls=1&mt=8
Andoid? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cat.acb.savemytoys
#MakeABetterGame! "Never give up, Never NEVER give up!" - Winston Churchill
i have a pretty open weekend so i'm planning to...
1. learn lua - i've found some great guides
2. start poking around the Gideros framework
3. take in a few chapters of Learn Lua for iOS Game Development which I bought a few days ago
have a great weekend
#MakeABetterGame! "Never give up, Never NEVER give up!" - Winston Churchill
#MakeABetterGame! "Never give up, Never NEVER give up!" - Winston Churchill
i did however setup my dev environment and worked through a few Gideros examples and tutorials. i also played around with Lua quite a bit, so overall i think it was a good start.
i'm going to spend more time with Lua and Gideros this week. i also have a comp sci course that started this week which runs through till June but i'll make the time for game development.
Getting started is the hardest part of any project, once you've begun then you can build up the momentum to keep going. Good luck with the comp sci course - you might find you'll pick up a lot of useful info that you can bring across into your game dev.
Keep us posted with any examples.
#MakeABetterGame! "Never give up, Never NEVER give up!" - Winston Churchill
i'll definitely post up examples asap. it would be great if the community can provide some critique which I can learn from.