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About
I'm a Dutch student from the nothern part of The Netherlands. Right now I'm 20 years old, and have been programming since I was about 14 or so. I'm only one half year away for getting my bachelor of "Business Information Technology".
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I started on Visual Basic 4 from an (ancient) PC Format CD. After a while I started participating in small Visual Basic gaming contests, and worked on Quadrant Wars for quite some years (1997-2000). Quadrant Wars was my pet project, and I learned an incredibly lot from it. The concept of the gamewas quite similar to Subspace/Netrek but involved capturing space stations t ocapture planets. ]It was (and is) never finished, unfortunatly. During this period I've also started the small programming group "The Psycho Debuggers" (1998). Which was quite interesting, during the internet major growing days.
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Meanwhile I've also been working with other Visual Basic related languages like ASP and VB Script, to create simple newsscripts.
It's hard to get everything on chonological order, unfortunatly. Between 2000 and now I've spent more time working on new programming languages, like the inline ASM (NASM) for Visual Basic, PHP for websites, UnrealScript for Unreal, hardcode Javascript and ofcourse more into Visual Basic. For Visual Basic I've also created a site with quite some interesting speed tips. (VB Fibre)
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In the period of 2002-2004 the game "YALG" was developed, and completed. YALG stands for Yet Another Laser Game. A modern remake of a classical game. Your task is to guide laserbeams to various targes throught a maze of walls, doors, exploding tiles, etc. This game is available at my YALG site. It got quite a decent amount of good ratins, and was only two points away from a Tucows 5 star award.
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Next to YALG I've been working on Rent-A-Coder projects as well. I've done about 15-20 jobs I think, and all my jobs got a maximum rating. These days I spent little time on RAC, since there are simply too many coders, and the buyers want a complete game within one day, basically. (The attitude changed quite a bit)
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My current project is completely different. Some people at a major game company I visited (August 2004) located in Seattle, WA convinced me that C++ is still a language to learn for game programming tasks. In my eyes Visual Basic is still a suitable game for game programming, but I did discover there actually is some performance improvement to gain. (But you lose a lot of time in the programming,though. ;))
The game's theme involves a Western style. I've been quite a fan of Clint Eastwood movies, and it sounds like a fun and not much common game genre, yet.
For a recent screenshot check here
Despite using C++, I still try to be on all the VB forums where people know me. Like this wiki, or VB Gamer for example. Like many more of the people visitting these ofrums, I'm one of the regulars present since 1998.
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Contact
If people are interested in mailing me, please do it through the forums, or one of my sites.
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Websites
- VB Fibre - How to optimize your VB code, or how-to use inline ASM in VB!
- YALG site - The site for Yet Another Laser Game, a laser/mirror game in Visual Basic.
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Last edit: 11 Januari 2004
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