About Me

Synopsis

22 years old.

Australian.

Independent Developer/Designer/Composer/Modder/Gamer

Finer Detail

Former Fencer (no not the Jousting type, digging holes in the ground, coming home with blisters everyday type Fencer)
I have an IT Certificate II from the NSW Institute of TAFE - i could probably get a Cert IV but it's too far to travel.
I Graduated Junior High School and left approx halfway through Grade 11.
Since then i've had a few different Jobs, mainly in Retail or Labor but my goal is to work in the Games Industry.
Got my first gaming console when i was 6 years old but had been using a computer at that time for at least 2 years
(Started on the Apple Macintosh in Kindergarten, and was the only kid interested in using them aswell)

PC has always been a Home away from Home for me. Slowly over the years i've taught myself how to do just about everything computer related and along the way teaching others around me as much as possible, so that in the hope they don't have to go through what i've been through.

Skills & Experience

Well here goes, i'm going to try to list all the skills & XP i have with some form of sorting. I wont just include Computer Skills either so this will be largely varied.

Gaming

16 Years + experience

PC

16 Years+ experience

Skills include:

Advanced File Management (Mass File/Directory Naming, Renaming, Sorting, Structure etc)
Intermediate/Advanced Batch Scripting (Installers, compiling, and everything in File Management)
Advanced researching skills/experience
Basic understanding of Win32 programming
Intermediate Networking skills (Can setup small/medium sized Network, also things like Router Troubleshooting etc)
Beginner/Intermediate Database understanding
Competent typist
Intermediate MS Excel user - created over 4000 excel files for Fencing Company (Quotes, Invoices etc)
Intermediate Hardware installation - Built current computer and also previous 2
Full understanding and more than 3 years HTML experience. See | Example
Beginner/Intermediate JavaScript experience. Know basic functions and Vars enough to use them effectively
Same goes for CSS - And not Counter Strike:Source, Cascading Style Sheets
Basic understanding of MySQL and lightly touched on Apache aswell
Basic/Intermediate understanding of Database Accounting such as QuickBooks (Which i prefer) and MYOB
Basic/Intermediate knowledge and experience in C++ coding. (Understanding of classes, declarations, constructors, destructors etc)

Design/Art/Media

10+ Years Experience

Approx. 7 years+ using Adobe Photoshop
~4 years animation experience (Image animations and also KeyFrame anims) Example Here

Musical Composition

5+ years Experience

Advanced use of FruityLoops Studio & Sony Acid Pro. Tried Reason3, Ableton Live and Cubase but preferred FL and AP
Taught myself Guitar and Piano (Piano first when i was younger, basic stuff and Guitar in my early teens)
I can read sheet music (not fluently), but Tabs are easier to use.
To this date mixed/composed over 150 individual songs and covers
Flatmates taught me how to play drums aswell, would love to have a kit to bash around.

PlayStation Portable

3 years+ in Help & Support

I can fix it if it's FirmWare4 or under / PSP2000 or PSP3000)
Purchased a PSP when they were "Virgins"
Learnt some basic LUA/C Programming for PSP

Source Modding

12 months+ Experience

See below

Source Mapping

12 months+ Experience

Source Modelling

3 Months experience

I'm still learning the basics on this one.
I can create/edit meshes in 3DS Max and XSI, preferably XSI. Because of my animation experience with images XSI is fairly easy to understand but there are certain things such as my low screen resolution that prevent me from using the program to its fullest ability (Some controls are cut off because i can see it was designed for Higher screened resolutions
QC Files are easy.
Skeletons and Bones are pretty easy too, just need to get more confident at creating the main model.
I'm really interested in Model Animations especially Cinematic (Physics) Animations.

Mapping Other

Varied Experience

~5 Years World Builder Experience.
Few months Experience on TGEA SDK
Picked up Bits and pieces in CryEngine (Crysis Editor) and Dunia (FarCry 2 editor)

Current Projects

ToxisResiduum

Currently i am developing a game by the name of ToxisResiduum.

The name comes from an Ambiguous combination of "Toxic" and "Residue". ( Pronounced IPA:/ˈtɒk.sɪs ɹɛˈzɪ.dju.ʌm̩̩/ )

The word "Toxis" closely resembles a Greek word meaning roughly "Arrangement" and the word "Residuum" is the past tense noun of Residua See here

The game is closed source and a beta is not expected to be released for quite some time.

We are possibly moving to a different engine as of writing this article, development continues but only art and media. Mapping has halted.

Music

I have 2 Albums "LP's" One entitled "Mustard Nights" (2008) and the other Self-titled (2009)

The latter is a 2CD (28 track) album with over 10 original pieces by myself.

You can hear a few tracks over on Acidplanet.com

Or on Slicethepie.com

Art

Art is always on my mind and some can be seen over at DeviantART.com Map-wise i don't have much released to the public but you can download some from my Garrysmod.org Profile

Interesting Links

Here are some links that have changed my life in one way or another, thought they would be worth sharing here if anywhere...

Gamespot.com Article

Incredible Documentary on Half-Life 2. As i don't live in USA i don't know this is true or not, but i would describe that Doco as "HL2 - Behind the Blow"

That story changed the way i view Valve forever, and for the Good too :)

4th Dimension T&S

Great article and very informative on the Fourth Dimension

Intellectual Property

To do with Copyright etc. READ IT!

Major Contributions

None yet

Smaller (Minor) Contributions

System Specs

ASUS P6T Deluxe Version 2
Intel Pentium Core i7 920 2.66GHZ
896MB Gigabyte nVidia GeForce GTX260OC Graphics Card
3x2GB DDR3 G.Skill RAM
Windows System Drive = 500GB SATA SeaGate Barracuda
HDD Spare 1 = 20GB IDE SeaGate Barracuda
HDD Spare 2 = 80GB IDE Maxtor
HDD Spare 3 = 160GB SATA SeaGate Barracuda
HDD Spare 4 = 250GB IDE SeaGate Barracuda
HDD Spare 5 = 400GB IDE Samsung HJ400
HDD Spare 6 = 500GB SATA SeaGate Barracuda (Not Currently working)
HDD Spare 7 = 1000GB SATA Verbatim "Desque Dur Extreme" (Samsung HJ1000)
LG 18x DVD-DL Burner
LG 5.1 Surround Sound Home Theatre System 650W RMS
D.S.E 750W Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS)
8.2MP Kodak EasyShare 813 Digital Camera
AVICO Stereo Headset Microphone/Headphones
Sennheiser Studio Headphones