It's a work in progress, but my new personal website is now up. Feel free to check it out!
www.briansavells.info
Thursday, September 20, 2007
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Monday, September 10, 2007
Introduction
I'm sitting here and looking down the long list of blogs that I have already created here, but none of them really touch on my technical side. That being said, here's a little bit about me.
My name is Brian Savells and I am currently a Game Programming student at the University of Advancing Technology. I have been programming for as long as I can remember and gaming just as long, however I never really combined the two until my highschool years. It all culminated after playing EverQuest for years when a friend of mine and I sat around talking about "how we would have done it differently." That flame of passion is what continues to drive me to create and I love to share both my creativity and my technical assistance with everyone around me (even when they quietly nudge and wish I would stop talking about games! *grin*).
Currently I spend my free time doing "market research" in the MMORPG Vanguard:Saga of Heroes, however I have played most of the games from the same genre since EverQuest. I balance out my gaming with a healthy dose of programming. I enjoy the 'C' languages the most as they are what I started with and have had the most experience with, but I also like to dabble in other languages such as Java, VB, or anything else that crosses my path. My most recent expedition was the XNA framework from Microsoft which is all done with C#. I had a lot of fun with it, partially because you can get a working program out in a very short amount of time and it lets the developer spend more time on creating rather than problem solving.
I hope that this blog will serve as a personal outlet for one of my passions as well as an inspiration for others who may be looking to choose game development as their career path.
Until next time,
Brian
My name is Brian Savells and I am currently a Game Programming student at the University of Advancing Technology. I have been programming for as long as I can remember and gaming just as long, however I never really combined the two until my highschool years. It all culminated after playing EverQuest for years when a friend of mine and I sat around talking about "how we would have done it differently." That flame of passion is what continues to drive me to create and I love to share both my creativity and my technical assistance with everyone around me (even when they quietly nudge and wish I would stop talking about games! *grin*).
Currently I spend my free time doing "market research" in the MMORPG Vanguard:Saga of Heroes, however I have played most of the games from the same genre since EverQuest. I balance out my gaming with a healthy dose of programming. I enjoy the 'C' languages the most as they are what I started with and have had the most experience with, but I also like to dabble in other languages such as Java, VB, or anything else that crosses my path. My most recent expedition was the XNA framework from Microsoft which is all done with C#. I had a lot of fun with it, partially because you can get a working program out in a very short amount of time and it lets the developer spend more time on creating rather than problem solving.
I hope that this blog will serve as a personal outlet for one of my passions as well as an inspiration for others who may be looking to choose game development as their career path.
Until next time,
Brian
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