Hey, I'm new, and I love Interplay's Games!

Post » Tue Oct 18, 2011 4:11 pm

Hey, my names Jwrac... well, not quite.
Anyway I'm introducing myself, and such.

I am overwhelmed with joy that I stumbled upon the original gamesas Website and forum/community!

Unfortunately, the first Fallout game I ever played was Fallout 3 by Bethesda... I'm sad because I would have loved to play number 1 first.

When I played number 1 I was annoyed with the resolution on my 24" monitor, so I installed some community mods from over at 'No Mutants Allowed', those guys sure have their forum for sure!
I'm glad to have found an official forum! :)

I'm Australian, I am 18 and I'm a hardcoe VideoGame lover! :D
I love games such as, obviously, Fallout, Arcanum, Blizzard's Diablo 1-2, Black-Isles Baldur's Gate, etc. :P

I also have a soft spot for MineCraft and sometimes Call of Duty 4, but I haven't bought a new game in a long time, and I'm sticking with my dusty old copy of Fallout.

Ever since I was 13, I have wanted to make games.
I was inspired by Bethesda's Oblivion (don't rage at me), so I made up tonnes upon tonnes of designs, sketches, ideas and crappy 13 and 14 year old drawings of my own fantasy world, at the time I had never heard of Dungeons and Dragons, but I played paper RPGs with my friend Toby and so for days on end.
My first game was a (according to Tim Cain xD) a "Gurps Everything", I had not heard of Gurps or anything, but essentially my game involved a fantasy world complete with space ships, laser/plasma/tesla elements and weaponry, Each planet was a god and... well I'm rambling now... the game was called ''Apocrypha''
Old and gone now... as memories. :)

Today, 18 and facing responsibility of the world, I am doing game-design independently, I am absolutely packed with ideas and inspiration.
When I first began programming at 15 I was absolutely horrid at maths, and still am.
I was good at english, syntax was my grammar and scripts were my poetry it seemed after a while.

Now I have a decent understanding of basic programming/scripting using inbuilt scripting engines.
Such as 'Game-Maker's GML', I am also really good now after years of learning it, 'picking out code syntax'
I had a look at some Java and in half hour I worked out how the class system works for a hierarchy and it blew my mind, I guess it's because it's object based coding. :)

Now ironically I am only decent at english and maths! But now I am good at logic and learning how things should be coded and designed.
I'm in the process of setting up a fantastic website for artworks and designs, for everything, just you wait! :P

My dream is to be a great game designer, aspiring to someone like Chris Condon or Tim Cain.
I doubt I'll ever be that known, but I aim for the stars! :s

Almost out of school now, I know I've given you my life story, but I needed a post or so to get accepted, I really look forward to perhaps meeting the design team behind gamesas...
Heck, who knows... maybe I'll work with people like you one day! :)

If anyone cares... xD here's some of my works.
Alpha DeadBase:http://sandbox.yoyogames.com/games/180667-deadbase-beta-v0-01
Beta DeadBase:http://sandbox.yoyogames.com/games/159661-alpha-deadbase
ArtCity: http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/299467_301660043184620_100000218790681_1426699_1448027148_n.jpg
ArtGames:http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/296603_292843080732983_100000218790681_1385626_275252638_n.jpg

Thanks for reading! :)
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