Plan for Greg "FireFly" Ellwood

My first .plan, a bit about me, my current Torque project and getting involved with the community.

This is my first .plan so I apologise if it's a little unorganised.

My name is Greg.. I'm known around the web as FireFly. I'm 24, have a BSc(hons) Software Engineering degree and my current day job involves developing bespoke web/database applications. In my spare time I work on various web/game projects.

Just over a year ago I was approached by the iNvasion Works team (who are known for creating some of the best Day of Defeat maps around) to see if I would be interested on working on a very ambitious World War 2 game (Project GreenLight: Airbourne Operations 1939-45) with them as lead coder.

I'd worked on several game/mod projects and created many websites for people and this looked like an exciting project so I jumped at the chance. They already had their eyes on Torque for the engine so I bought my license that day.

We spent around 6 months working on designs and building a team of people with the necessary skills.

Its now a year later, I believe I now have a good understanding of Torque, GreenLight is progressing well with around 6months development complete and we're hope to hit beta sometime this year. Here are links to the 2 dev shots we've posted here so far:

Snapshot 1
Snapshot 2

More details on the project can be found here

When I posted our last dev shot I realised that I've hardly spent any time with the Garage Games community - I hadn't even created my profile! So since then I've decided to try and get a bit more involved.

Last week I started checking the forums more often and have been helping to answer people's queries. I've begun speaking to people on some other projects and now I've written my first .plan! :)

I think I'm on the right track now to becoming more involved with the GG community - my next aims are:

-to keep helping out people on the forums where I can
-hang around in the IRC channel too
-post at least a fortnightly .plan
-continue working hard on GreenLight and keep the community updated with regular dev shots
-find time to post up some of my torque work as resources

If anyone wants to bounce coding ideas off me online you can get me on:

ICQ: 4546901
AIM: gregellwood
MSN: greg_ellwood@hotmail.com
IRC: [iNw]FireFly on neverdream, gamesnet and a couple of others.

-Greg.