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Slayer-X · 2004-03-16T03:52:43

I was just wondering what the average age of people who are on gamedev and program games. And I was wondering whether they are mostly in highschool, college, or do it for a living. I'm 16 and I'm in highschool, I'm in the highest computer programming class they have and I'm still making a 105!

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Started by Slayer-X November 12, 1999 11:13 PM

508 comments, last by Slayer-X 20 years, 1 month ago

Barogio

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October 31, 2003 04:29 AM

Well I think everyone else registered replied, so why not

I''m 21 working as a Lead Coder for Pineapple Interactive Ltd here in the UK.

I started coding when I was 6 on the CPC6128, my mum knew some simple BASIC from her work and taught me that and bought me a book about it.. I kind of left her standing from that point on and when I was 12/13 got on the net (good ol'' 28k). The internet saved me saving my pocketmoney for shareware discs with the latest compilers / assemblers (and the manuals for them

I learnt most of my x86 asm coding from shareware assembler manuals lol.

I was doing a lot of PSX scene work, as well as PC work mainly just working on my skills. When I was 16 still at school I got offered a job while at a demo party, quit school a few months after and haven''t looked back

To all of you kids still at school look away NOW, working on code when I got home instead of homework was always the risk I took with it all. That was the only way I could see to fit in playing football (soccer) with my mates as well as code

Cheers, hope I can get time to reply to help some of you soon!

Simon 'Barog' BarrattPineapple Interactivew: http://www.pineapple-interactive.com

void*

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October 31, 2003 04:47 AM

Wow, this thread is so long I''m amazed that you''ve read this far...

I''m 24 and I''ve published 3 games (strategy and puzzle games through Hasbro, Inc.)... Currently I''m in my last year of undergraduate study in Comp. Sci. and plan on getting a PhD eventually. I''ve been writing games since I was 7 (first game was in BASIC for an Atari computer that connected to a TV through an RF switch, and didn''t have any non-volatile memory). I still write games in my spare time, which I don''t have much of since I''m a TA for a Data Structures and Algorithms class.

To all of the computer-deprived high school students: keep working at it. I can remember writing code in pencil and paper during class, and writing games for my TI-85 that would get passed around school like the flu. All that practice definitely helps later on.

Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."

sdwil

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October 31, 2003 05:30 AM

anyone remember the commodore plus-4?

- Scott

darookie

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October 31, 2003 05:43 AM

quote:Original post by sdwil
anyone remember the commodore plus-4?

It was my first computer

Ahh, those where the days...
I replaced it with a 286 laptop because that one had a
20MB hdd and 1MB RAM - a killer machine back then

Haytil

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October 31, 2003 02:17 PM

I''m 17, a senior in High School. I learned BASIC on the calculator in 6th grade, graduated to assembly on a more advanced calculator in 7th grade. From there, I did C++ off and on in 8th/9th grade a bit. I''m back into it again, this time with enough experience to make games, so I''m learning DirectX and graphics stuff. Also, I''ve worked as an immortal on several MUDS (online text-based RPGS) and have begun coding mine as a small hobby.

Sorry, no computer classes. There aren''t any at my school. And the computers here suck. Or at least they did, until this year. But the comp admin is bad enough that these brand-new computers run as slow as you can imagine.

-Gauvir_Mucca

Chuck3d

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November 01, 2003 03:05 PM

Ok lets dance.
I''m 21 years old, I''m studiying computing in france, and I make a game engine. I have begun in a p166 with 16 mo, and hope since this time I will work in the game industry .

!o)

!o)

Anonymous

January 16, 2004 01:09 AM

I''m 45. Bought a Trash 80 shortly after they came out and got rid of it a year later. My first serious love and when I first got into programming was on a Vic 20. I started rewriting the programs that came with it. I enjoyed it. A couple of years later I bought a COCO 3 and started writing programs for it.
It was a Sci-Fi Role Playing Game that really got me into writing a program. What took me hours to do on paper for the game a computer program could spit out in a few short mins. There is quite a rush when you have finally finished your program.

Professionally I have built and designed PC''s and worked on small networks. Currently I run 3 web sites.

My programing has I am afraid been dropped for now. Too bad considering my real love is the programing and not the building of a computer. Hopefully in the near future I will go back to writing game programs.

I have courses in Visual C, C++, Java, Visual Basic, Perl, MS Office Access and Excel.

To think when I graduated from HS no one owned a Personal PC. Okay PC''s weren''t really out then. Calculators were not even allowed in School then, and none could be had cheaply.

Times have changed.

Rick

milkywayman

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January 16, 2004 04:00 AM

yure right man, times have changed.

anyways, im 4 years old now and have programmed my first C++ game- its a game of checkers...most people say - that im a genious....but you know....im just too smart..

hahahha....just joking...really wanted to say that...haha

anyways , im 22 and just graduated with a comp science degree...my degree lacked more core c++ programming, in place for commercial and web applications...so i have been takiung the time ..the last 1 year to really work on my C++ skills.

have made 2 MS-DOS console games...using arrays and stuff..mainly Tic-Tac-Toe and Mastermind...

love programming....hopefully i can make it a career.

marcus12024

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January 16, 2004 10:15 AM

Well, I''m 22 and recently graduated with a BSc. in CS up in Manitoba

(yep, lucky me!)

My university courses were a joke, we learned some Pascal, some Java, and a tiny bit of C++. Most of the other students did as little as possible to get by, and hated any kind of assignment that required much thought or innovation (heaven forbid - they might have to think!)

I started programming when I got to university, and haven''t looked back since. I had a bit of a slow start, but got decent at it fairly quickly.

To date, I''ve programmed a Tetris game (with MFC(!!!), then ported to Win32 w/ GDI, then ported to DirectDraw, and now porting to D3D, a Pac-Man game, which started in Win32 w/ GDI, now being ported to DirectDraw. I''ve also written several utilities for an RPG, such as a text editor and display program, stat modification algorithms, character bios, enemies creator, etc.

Soon I may release some tutorials along with the source for these games, I''m just trying to create some half-decent artwork for them (I''m a programmer, not an artist). Right now, my games look miserable because of the crappy sprites.

Life's Short. Make Games.

Ademan555

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January 16, 2004 10:29 AM

15, took a comp science class at the local community college to start (im gonna take more) and then went from there with my friend, who started programming since he was 8 (pascal)

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