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About Me

Mid-twenties gamers with roots starting with SMB2. I am a software engineering major with only a year to go until completion. I hope to land a job with a gaming company as an associate producer or at least some sort of engineering/program design area of work. Hopefully 2-3 years of that stuff will get me far enough ahead that I can then set my plans of Studio creation into motion. The header at the top of my profile is simply the evolution of my "company" logo - Seventh Border, currently going through registration processes, extremely slowly. However I do have an official T-shirt, and a shitty slogan - harumph.

As for my technical prowess, as stated earlier Software Engineer with 2 games, and game-ish project in my portfolio:

o Wooden Crusaders - a sort of Warcraft turn based strategy game
o Super Stick Brothers - a simple Smash Brothers rip off using simple polygons as fighters (circle, triangle, square etc.)
o Arcade Front End - a UI/OS for selecting games for use in a MAME cabinet, will be up for distribution soon.

I am proficient or knowledgeable in the following programming languages:
o Java
o C/C++
o Python
o ABAP - bloody useless

I've also dabbled with some multimedia stuff such Adobe Photoshop and Premiere.

I only game on my 360, though I might look into PS3 soon for Blu-Ray mostly ;).

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Gamertag: miketava

Following (4)

PunchOut Photoedit - 2nd Attempt miketava | 5:58 PM on 08.20.2008 6 comments

You might have seen my edit from yesterday's post. Well I am at it again. This will most likely be my last edit of this pic, cause I'm really sick of looking at it. Anyways, the minor adjustments might go unnoticed to some, but a keen eye will see that the colors of the characters are not fateful to the 8 Bit originals. Little Mac now sports his famous green trunks and gloves, and I've also darken his shirt and hair a bit, so that it is more in like with a 256 color palette. As for Soda Popinski, I believe the difference is quite glaring - he's pinkish/purpley...what with all the drinking soda pop I would assume. Also his speedo/boots are appropriately red colored and his gloves a shade of orange. That covers it really. Below is my favorite version of the 5. See attached pics for a panorama view of all 5 edits (crop the ones you so desire for wallpaper madness). Just note that in the panorama shot the upper left pic is the original (which I did not do) and the other 5 are my edits to make it more contextual. Attached photos: