ButchDean's Profile User Rating: *****

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About Me

Slowly becoming a veteran of the games industry, I have worked for such companies as PlayStation having worked on the original SDK for the PSVita, in addition to PS3 work. I also have XBox360 experience, and am currently a games graphics and physics programmer.

I first started writing games about nearly ten years ago with my first ever game project being a full 3D snake-like clone incorporating Quake 3 like power ups called 'AntiVirus'. It was a completely solo project at the time and written in C++ with OpenGL and non-graphics components of DirectX. I currently have plans to sport it to Linux at some point just as an exercise more than anything else. Unfortunately, since joining the industry I had taken my demo website down so have nothing to show here right now.

I am currently also working on a large racing game project in DirectX with C++ in my own time. It is a large project that requires more than one programmer, but I see it as a nice challenge to complete it myself. Once it gets to a suitable stage of completion I will be adding HLSL code to make things look extra nice for the eye candy.

I was also very active in the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) where I ran the London Chapter for a while, being the most successful coordinator in its history. I used to also be one of the forum moderators for its Programming and Technology forum.

Discovered as well that I've made Forum Leader of the Month for January 2011! Very chuffed about that one! :)
If you want to begin making games professionally read my blog and its comments.

My Github public repository.

"Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them." - Albert Einstein
"Do or do not. There is no 'try'..." - Yoda

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Member Title:
Pro Games Programmer
Age:
Age Unknown
Birthday:
August 22
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Interests:
Programming games, algorithms. Games, music, Coca Cola.

And last but not least the New York Yankees!! :)
Forum Leader:
C++, Game Programming
Years Programming:
20
Programming Languages:
C/C++, C#, Assembler, Python and several others.

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    aaron1178 Icon

    24 May 2012 - 02:11
    Butch, nice DP, though sort of miss the old one :)
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    aaron1178 Icon

    03 Mar 2012 - 16:17
    Butch, I am going to study the code for that challenge inside and out :) I am also going to get better at pointers, as obviously, I will need them for game programming and overall programing.
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    ButchDean Icon

    21 Feb 2012 - 17:23
    Nice! Good luck! :)
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    mostyfriedman Icon

    20 Feb 2012 - 17:42
    Oh yea, for sure.
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    ButchDean Icon

    20 Feb 2012 - 13:45
    So, you gonna have a go at the challenge I've put up? ;)
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    mostyfriedman Icon

    20 Feb 2012 - 13:33
    Oh yes indeed. I think it will be good for me, I love math, solving problems, algorithm design, AI, making things run as fast as possible, and of course playing video games :D.
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    ButchDean Icon

    20 Feb 2012 - 11:28
    Cool, why not! Be patient though, there is a lot to learn. :)
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    mostyfriedman Icon

    18 Feb 2012 - 18:57
    Cool, I am just getting started in game dev, thinking of taking it up as a career.
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    ButchDean Icon

    15 Feb 2012 - 16:18
    Core technology. Basically I enable the platform to run the game in terms of graphics, physics, movie playback and everything. I'm not the only guy, but part of a fairly large team.
    I'm thinking of making the transition to programming physics at present.
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    mostyfriedman Icon

    14 Feb 2012 - 02:28
    Btw man, what is your speciality in game dev?
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    mostyfriedman Icon

    18 Jan 2012 - 08:48
    That's because your eyes are old :P
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    ButchDean Icon

    17 Jan 2012 - 18:32
    @mostyfriedman - Just saw this! lol
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    mostyfriedman Icon

    16 Nov 2011 - 17:34
    I am gonna steal your gamedev knowledge :P
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    blackcompe Icon

    28 Sep 2011 - 13:07
    It appears so. Thank you, I'm ecstatic! Lol.
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    ButchDean Icon

    16 Aug 2011 - 08:28
    Aw, thanks Kilorn! Another year older for me! :D
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