Originally posted on 7/10/2018 on the old Omnipoof WordPress site.

Last year on my drive up to Portland, OR, for the Christian Game Developers Conference, I verbally accepted a position to join Adobe as a senior software engineer to help develop the user interface for a new product. 

Originally posted on 10/17/10 on Mrrrdev.

So what’s so life-changing about Minecraft?

It’s not the game itself.  The graphics are blocky (though this is a part of the game’s style), the sounds are simple, there isn’t much in terms of music, and there’s no objective to work towards besides “don’t die.” 

Originally posted on 10/16/10 on Mrrrdev.

It was a great opportunity to get a glimpse of what I had always wanted to do. These visitors from the game industry worked for various companies and described how much fun it is to be working in the industry. 

Originally posted on 10/15/10 on Mrrrdev.

A world of possibilities opened up before me as a computer science major. Once I had room for only one major-related course of my choosing, and now I had room for seven. I filled my next year with what I considered the “game development trinity” – software engineering, computer graphics, and artificial intelligence – and loved every minute of them.

Originally posted on 10/15/10 on Mrrrdev.

A few years later, as I was digging through DOS on the home computer (now a spiffy IBM compatible), I stumbled across a program called QBasic.  When I opened it, it looked like a text editor, but it had menu options such as “Run” and “Debug.”