Hello Steemit, from a game developer
Hello Steemit,
My name is Bram Stolk, and I develop indie games.
Ever since I got a home computer in 1982, I've been fascinated by writing computer programs.
To this day, it is still my number one hobby.
I grew up in Holland, but am now living in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada.
During my life, I made many games but have a special interest in simulation games.
I like to write A.I. and Physics code, but do all the parts myself from start to finish, including my own engine.
If you have any questions about game development, I love to help out people if I can.
I like writing SIMD code with intrinsics, love the C programming language and Python too.
I wrote a primer on PID Controllers which are tremendously useful in game development.
I also wrote an Open Sourced AI software called General Purpose Goal Oriented Action Planning. It allows an AI to reason about the world and come up with a plan of actions to achieve a certain goal.
Personally, I find an AI that reasons about the world quite refreshing if you compare it to the recent hype of Deep Learning where massive data is thrown at a neural network, but there is never any real reasoning going on.
Don't hesitate to reply with any questions you may have.
Yours Sincerely,
Bram Stolk
Yay another game dev!
Hit me up on discord.
I not only make indie games but am also in the process of creating a new platform for indie devs also.
Would love to chat with you.
Welcome @mazarax! I'm sure you won't regret the time you will be spending here in stemmit, many lives have changed. You'll find out why. Have fun!
Welcome mate @mazarax! u got my upvotes and follow.
Welcome to the platform! Kate
Hey Bram, what program do you use to create your models for your games?
Hi, I use an Open Sourced modeller called Wings3D.
It's a truly amazing tool.
So easy to pick up, the basics are simple, yet it is very powerful.
It lets you do all sorts of operations on either vertices, edges or faces.
http://www.wings3d.com/
So yeah, my models tend to be simple and fall under what you would call "programmer art."
So sometimes, if I can't model it myself, I will occasionally buy a model.
Well, if you ever need some simple models done I can help you out for free! I’d love to help out with indie games :)
Hi Bram, I'd like to be your friend am an intermidiate web developer, I've modeled used Cinema4D and 3D Max I would like to learn from someone like you. Hope you follow me back. Welcome to Steemit!!!!
Hey Bram! Welcome to steemit community! We hope you're going to enjoy it. We hope you've heard about utopian.io, if not, check it out. It's a steem based paltform for programmers. Good luck and steem on!
Thanks, I had not heard of this before, but it sure is an interesting concept.
I may try it out, if there is a good match.
So I am confused. Before using utopian.io I have to give it all sorts of privileges over my steemit account? I don't want others to have the right to vote/comment/delete for me.
It is absolutely safe to use it. Make your research about utopian.io, there's plenty of articles about it here on steemit.
With all due respect, I see no explanation on why utopian.io asks for these permissions. Neither the utopia.io site, nor your reply gives a rationale for requesting these permissions.
I'm not using this platform myself, but i know that it is growing greatly and that many people are using it, because it it pays well to those who contribute to it. Join their discord channel and maybe get more info there.
Welcome to steemit!!! @mazarax , this is an incredible platform and I know you will be very good here, I invite you to see my blog! @myperfectblog
A game developer on Steemit sounds great :)
I wish you a great journey here :)
Im learning game dev myself. Im always down to hear about how different peoples dev process happens! Welcome and enjoy!