Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Charlie Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.profile Subject: me Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 11:45:25 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 61 Message-ID: <3588EFC5.5D8C@livemedia.co.uk> Reply-To: charlie@livemedia.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: livemedia.easynet.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) thought it was about time I posted a profile here ... Born in Hull 10/10/74 - that makes me 23 .. 5'10" Short blondish hair Currently live in Oxford. Never really had a 'proper' job. Likes: Jane (girlfriend) Football (England WILL win the world cup) Music - currently Massive Attack, Radiohead, Prodigy Snowboarding (painful to learn though) Dislikes: Tuna Been programming since I got a speccy when I was about 11. Had 3 games release on the Speccy - all by D & H Games - a long gone publisher of 'sports management' games - Soccer 7, International Football, and County Cricket. Then got an ST and an Amiga, wrote (most of) another footie management game 'First Divison Manager' (I still remember making some last minute bug fixes 30 minutes before my GCSE maths exam) - was released by Codemasters and did pretty well ... Went to Uni - Keble College, Oxford, started my company (Live Media) during my final year, passes my exams (2.1), left Uni - continued with company - ('company' in loosest sense of the word) - writing interactive web stuff, screen savers, multimedia stuff and anything else people want. I also own a third of another company (Active Media), but thats another story. Never really set out to write games - but its tonnes more fun than most things - so in my spare time I started to write another soccer game, this time Windows95 - Total Soccer. No publshers interested (even though its miles better than Sensi Soccer 98), so released (and ongoing) on a smallish scale - got some OK reviews in magazines. Got a Yaroze when it was reduced in price, currently playing around with converting bits of Total Soccer to it ... claim to fame to far is some cool realtime shadows, using a simple matrix trick. (well I think they're cool anyway !) For what its worth, my view on the whole Yaroze thing: Great idea - perhaps a little too expensive for a lot of people - but then the cost in real terms depends on what you want to get out of it - eg if it gets you the experience to get a job then its pretty good value. For me its a bit of an expensive Toy which at best will give me a bit of experience if the opportunity ever arises to take it more seriously. I think the 'community' thing is great - the newsgroups etc... I think some of the limitations of the system are a little frustrating - ie no 3d lines, or 3d sprites .. since they could possibly encourage poor code design. The documentation is also ok - its all there, but sometimes takes a little finding. Generally I think its pretty good . anyway I've gone on enough... Charlie Charles Chapman www.livemedia.co.uk www.active-media-online.com