| Game Editor: Who made this? |
Who do I blame?
| Humbird0 <- This guy! I'm a cashier... (seriously!) ...but I also play with Flash in my spare time. humbird0@gmail.com
Background
| This isn't in perfect chronological order, because some things overlap. Learning how to program When I was 8 years old (growing up in the early 90's), my dad gave me a Commodore VIC-20 computer. I taught myself how to program in BASIC by reading its excellent instruction manual. A few years layer, my dad gave me an Atari 800 XL, which could do many things the Commodore couldn't do. It also had tons of games. For many years, I loved that computer... until a lightning storm started loving it. After the power surge, I was amazed when its diagnostic mode told me, in precise detail, exactly how fried its circuits were! When I was about 13, I was given a Tandy computer that ran DOS, GW Basic, and later QBasic. I used to plow through my homework in study hall, then ask if I could visit the technology class so I could copy commands for GW Basic from their instruction manual... I was not a normal kid. Then my mother got a Macintosh and I took a hiatus from programming for a few years until I discovered Flash. Many years layer, when I was going to Collins College, I had a few classes that taught the basics of programming in C++. It came fairly easily to me, but I haven't had any reason to pursue it further. Rpg Maker 2000 When I was around 17, I discovered RPG Maker 95. I was in heaven! I had never been able to make a real game before! I later acquired RPG Maker 2000, which I loved even more! It was fun to push it to its limits, making it do things it was never designed to do. But I eventually got fed-up with its limitations and moved onto using Flash full-time. Flash One day in high school, I got jealous when one of the kids used Flash to create an impressive class project. So I started teaching myself how to use it. Later on, I discovered RPG Maker 2000, and sort of ignored Flash for awhile. Then a few years ago, I was creating a game similar to Zelda with real-time combat. But the things I had to do just to make it work were getting ridiculous. So I finally got fed up and switched over to Flash from that point on. Ever since then, I have wanted to create an RPG Maker in Flash, so that I could have the best of both worlds. I've only just now gotten around to it. College I went to 2 colleges: MVCC & Collins College After high school, I wanted to create video games, but the closest thing offered at the local college was 3D animation, so I studied traditional art and 3D Studio Max. The art classes completely reinvented my approach to drawing. MVCC was really worth it! Then, I arbitrarily chose another college that did offer courses in game design. Compared to MVCC, Collins College was a joke, and much more expensive. Most of the things they taught were things I had already experimented with during high school. But I did learn a few new things. Call me a fool, but after that, I decided to stop chasing things I was supposed to want (a career thingie), and focus on the things that actually mattered to me. (a steady paycheck and a hobby) So I moved back near my family, got a job at a nearby store, and have pretty much everything I really want in life. My mother still thinks I'm crazy.
| Last updated: December 27, 2014 |