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 ;).
Here is the making of our game developed by Seventh Border Studios as a Software Engineering project. Weeks 1-4 are linked here to the GameTrailers video posts.
WEEK 1 - Boris Varbanov, the Technical Lead on the project, gives us a quick look at what's been done so far.
WEEK 2 - Meet Michael Tavares(Me) the Project Lead. We go over the main menus and some animations.
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WEEK 3[/b] - Ritvik Mudur, Audio Engineer on the project, gives us a quick look at how the game is starting to look & control, as well as a rundown of our power-ups sounds
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WEEK 3 *Bloopers[/b] - Continuing with the tradition of the weekly game development updates, we bring you the bloopers reel from the Week 3 featurette.
A montage of Ritvik's saying hello, as well as bursts of laughter and a game demo gone awry. The LOLs just keep coming.
WEEK 4 - Our intern shows us the new features that have been added: Attacks, Health Bar and Lives. He also gives us a glimpse at how the control setup menu will work.
I really hope you enjoy these. Look for more weekly updates as we present our progress and the rest of the team.
dude it's been only a few weeks of development for a total of about 100h programming spread over 6 ppl. It's not gonna win any beauty contests but it still aims to be a fairly competent demonstration of our skills.
Also the videos serve as our communication to our correcting professor, that way we don't have to worry about sending him long winded emails
Hey the videos doesn't work and i wanted to look at the game. I took a programing class for java and i want to learn c++ just to make some games in the mean time. I was looking into that xna stuff microsoft is doing and it looks pretty cool what do you think?
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Even though that was honest, way to be unsupportive and rude to a fellow destructoid member.
It's actually fairly funny how you're making these video blogs for this... lackluster title.
Also the videos serve as our communication to our correcting professor, that way we don't have to worry about sending him long winded emails