Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Graham Goring Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.profile Subject: Erm, hello... Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 01:14:33 +0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 40 Message-ID: <36609FF9.6B1FFDFA@duketastrophy.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: duketastrophy.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; I) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Well, I just thought it was about time I dropped in a profile, seeing as I've had the Yaroze for a few months now... My name is Graham Goring, and I'm an alcoholic (Um, no, that's Tuesdays...), er, programmer-to-be. I say programmer-to-be as although I've got a decent grounding in BASIC and a smidgeon of Z80 assembly language my finest hour in C so far is a two-player Connect Four game. My favourite genres are RPGs and Strategy (I'd cite Julian Gollops games as one of the most innovitive catalogues of work I've ever had the pleasure of playing), particularly dungeon crawlers and X-COM and it's ilk. That said I like 2D platformers as well, but they have to have depth, variety and a stack of secrets (like Rainbow Islands or Bubble Bobble) unlike half of the dross on the Megadrive. I'm 22 years old (although next Friday I'll be 23) and have been programming since about 1988, starting on the Speccy and moving on to the SAM Coupé, and my most dazzling achievement is probably Intergalactic Races, a betting game featuring 50 different competitors over a thousand frames of animation. Urk, those buggers took a while. Oh, and I'm lazy as hell and watch films all the time. :)