About the Author
Ever since my early years I have been a tinkerer, engineer, problem solver, and
solution gatherer. In short, I love to break things apart, gure out how they work,
and then put them back together, usually better than before.
I started way back when with my rst computer, the Commodore Vic20. It was
simple, used a tape deck, and forced you to write programs in basic or assembly;
they were fun times. From there, I progressed through the ZX Spectrum +2 and the
joyous days of modern graphics, but with the 30 minute load times from a trusty
tape deck. Games were a passion of mine even then, which led to many requests for
another gaming machine, but Santa brought me an Amstrad 1640, my rst PC. From
there, my tinkering and building exploded, and that machine ended up being a huge
monstrosity with so many addons, tweaks, and xes; I was Frankenstein, and this
PC became my own personal monster crafted from so many parts. Good times.
This passion has led me down many paths, and I learned to help educate others on
the tips and tricks I learned along the way; these skills have equipped me well for
the future.
Today I would class myself as a game development generalist. I work with many
different frameworks, each time digging down, ripping them apart, and then
showing whoever would listen through my blog, videos, and speaking events
how to build awesome frameworks and titles. This has been throughout many
generations of C++, MDX, XNA (what a breath of fresh air that was), MonoGame,
Unity 3D, The Sunburn Gaming Engine, HTML, and a bunch of other proprietary
frameworks; I do them all. This gives a very balanced view of how to build and
manage many different types of multiplatform titles.
I don't stop there, as I regularly contribute to the MonoGame project, adding
new features and new samples before publishing it on NuGet. I also have several
of my own open source projects and actively seek out any new and interesting ones
to help with.
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