Wow - It sure has been a long time
by John Vanderbeck · 07/04/2011 (7:20 am) · 4 comments
Over six years since I was last active on GarageGames, 6 years after moving away from game development to pursue a new career, and here I am again. Life really is a big circle.
Six years ago I drifted away from the game development scene. I decided I didn't want to be a programmer anymore. I was tired of it. I left the scene, went back to school, and studied graphics and visual effects. I started a new career and today I work at one of the top visual effects companies in the country, Digital Domain, and recently wrapped work on Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon in 3D.
But as life has a habit of doing to you, I now find myself having traveled full circle. I have a new career, one that I am very happy with, and now my coding is my hobby. As a huge iDevice fanatic, I have both an iPhone and an iPad and thought to myself, it would be fun to maybe write some games or other apps for these things.
So here I am. Back at GarageGames after so many years. I just purchased iT2D and my first goal is to see if I can take my old T2D game, TileIt to the iPhone and iPad.
It is good to be back.
Six years ago I drifted away from the game development scene. I decided I didn't want to be a programmer anymore. I was tired of it. I left the scene, went back to school, and studied graphics and visual effects. I started a new career and today I work at one of the top visual effects companies in the country, Digital Domain, and recently wrapped work on Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon in 3D.
But as life has a habit of doing to you, I now find myself having traveled full circle. I have a new career, one that I am very happy with, and now my coding is my hobby. As a huge iDevice fanatic, I have both an iPhone and an iPad and thought to myself, it would be fun to maybe write some games or other apps for these things.
So here I am. Back at GarageGames after so many years. I just purchased iT2D and my first goal is to see if I can take my old T2D game, TileIt to the iPhone and iPad.
It is good to be back.
Torque 3D Owner Novack
CyberianSoftware
Is not a circle! Is an ascending spiral :)