Hey gents, my name is Josh, I live in Provo, UT where I go to college at BYU. I'm mormon, and went on a mission for two years when I was 19, so I'm a bit behind in school (I'm 23 and graduate in april) I'm majoring in comp sci, and am getting an emphasis in bioinformatics (where I focus most of my scholastic time actually). I'm married, but seperated, trying to make it work, but the future is pretty shaky in that respect right now. I'm going to try and get into a masters program for bioinformatics somewhere, and then probably a phd as well; why try to find a real job in this economy? I've worked for my school doing IT for over two years now, mostly hardware stuff, but some SQL in the early days, and it pays enough to cover my needs for the time being.
Programming is more of a hobby to me than a job, although it will be that one day as well. Pretty much I was inspired by what Notch has done with minecraft and figured that maybe creating a small indie game might be a better hobby then wasting my life away playing them. My educational interests lie mostly in massively multithreaded applications for super computers, I hope that some of those skills translate into being able to help make fast and efficient server side programs for games. My hobby is graphics and game programming. My web programing skills are laughable. (really crappy perl scripting being about the most i've done, and only for school).
Also, I'm in an interesting financial situation right now, and am semi interested in starting my own business. If any of you are interested in going in on a small project let me know... beyzend, being in the states probably puts you in the best position to do something, and if we get anywhere David as a partner or consultant would be a pretty sweet deal. I don't know, just kicking ideas around. We are all a pretty young crowd and if we put our heads together we might be able to do some pretty cool stuff.
Anyways, let me know, maybe we could start a new thread to talk about it, maybe we should all see if we can get on skype or something sometime. I'm pretty open and flexible right now, obviously I'm still trying to get a functioning engine together so I'm far from a concrete idea yet, but I've got several things cooking. And honestly if we get an engine we could probably start throwing down really rough trial games that any of us wanted to try making, and if any of them seemed to be fun enough to go retail we could try everything before narrowing our focus on the $$$ makers. Again, pm me or let me know in this or another thread if your interested.
EDIT: @AndiNo and David a question for you guys (especially if your interested in possibly starting a business) do you guys, or anyone else not in america know anything about international business laws? If we get anything started I have know idea if America is our best option to start a business (although it would probably be the simplest.
|
So I spend a lot of time in front of my computer, but I also do some photography when I get a chance.
I live in Germany and am a student of computer science. I now have some years of programming experience but never managed to really get something polished enough to release it. So now I'm using PolyVox and working again on a different game