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My background is in computer hardware sales and service. Hobbies have included playing guitar, song writing and computer gaming. I spent years playing Counter-Strike before moving on to the Left4Dead franchise and the Portal franchise. I am helping to write a L4D2 campaign with a awesome mapper that is coming along slowly but nicely.
I've been a dad for 8 years now and that's easily my favorite time I spend everyday so I feel it's worth mentioning.
I enjoy solving Portal2 maps and making my own maps for others to play. I like using the PETI because the graphics are less important to me than the puzzle itself. I respect those who like to use Hammer for their own creations though.
I'm hoping we can build a vibrant area here where other mappers can showcase thier work and participate in fun challenges to spur everyones creativity.
I'll let that shocking revelation sink in and spare you more details of my personal life. If you must know how I look there's a chance to find a picture of me that I posted while I was active in another forum. At the time my obsession was C&C Generals, the best multiplayer game of all time. I'm not really into games and Portal 2 isn't a game to me. It's the one true god. I pray to it 20 hours a day on average. Here's hoping this group will serve science well.
I come from France, near Paris.
I perfectly speak French.
I speak pretty well English.
I speak a bit German.
I can read Latin.
I have worked on Game Maker Language (I have Pro version).
I have a bit learnt basic C++, C, HTML, CSS.
I have already worked on Hammer community project but I'm not very skilled.
I currently try to speedrun Portal 1 and Portal 2.
My speedrun master is Ghabryel05.
I have worked on a song with a famous french singer.
I'm not Wheatley, I haven't gone in space for weeks
... So, time is my main weakness; I can't promise anything to this group.
I have a lot of stuffs to do and I have movable timetable.
So, feel free to kick me if you judge me inactive.
Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know whatcha gonna get.
That's about all I have to say right now. ;-) Oh, I'm also a crazy random mofo that enjoys joking around and shit like that. I guess I'll be the black sheep for you guys. heh.
My past occupations (in more or less chronological order): garbage man, law firm gofer, news paper delivery, dj, lawyer, real estate administrator, tour guide.
My current occupation: portal 2 map creator.
I got to Portal 2 on my PS3 about two or three years ago. When I heard about the PeTI Initiative I immediately installed Steam on my PC. That was about a year ago and I have been active on and off as a puzzle maker since then. Last winter I started using Hammer and am still learning the ropes ... always trying to introduce something new. The reason for that is that I actually suck at creating puzzles so I have to keep players interested by building new toys for them :D
Well, I hope you'll enjoy my creations nonetheless. Criticism, good and bad, is always appreciated!
You're joking around and you think you'll be worse than me? I guess you'll learn new things every day XD And I think you'll feel at hime here too :) now... where's that kick button... :P j/k
You have only one goal ?
You are what, monkeys ?
Damn, 1st I get banned from digg 10 times then facebook, then reddit and now here on my first comment. SHIT! hahaha
Ahaha ... what a waste of time ...
OH NO. Damn it! I just got publicly humiliated. *Crawls back to my mother's basement*
haha
I'm currently a junior at the University of Houston in Texas, majoring in Mathematics with a minor in Comp Sci. I play percussion and am on the UH drumline, so if you ever happen to be flipping through channels and you catch a UH game (not likely, we suck) you'll probably see me in a camera shot somewhere.
I tend to pick a video game and obsess over it for an extended period of time before moving on. The most pertinent obsession to this group was a little flash puzzle game you may have heard of called Fantastic Contraption (puzzles, level creation). Dear god, when you start learning some of the tricks to that game and actually get good at building complicated machinery it is hard to stop playing. There was a huge community for that game that really spurred it forward and led to new challenges and ways of playing that could keep you interested for months. Apparently I made some good levels in FC because I was picked along with about 20 other people to test its sequel (FC2), and 9 or so of the official levels in FC2 were picked from my creations during the beta.
As for Portal 2, I consider it probably the greatest puzzle game I have ever played. Very few games come close to providing such interesting mechanics to construct thought-provoking puzzles. As soon as PeTI came out I started making levels like mad, most of which were mediocre and I subsequently deleted, but I have made a few with some very interesting concepts that I am quite proud of. I have never learned Hammer, mainly because I tend to focus on creating interesting mechanics out of the existing items/tools in the PeTI editor. Unforunately about a year ago my computer went to shit, and I just recently acquired a new one capable of running Portal 2. Hopefully I can get back into the swing of map making!