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No, that's Warren's project, but we're in the same division.

What's the most recent game you worked on then?

Not sure I can/should talk about current or recent work publicly, but these days I'm mostly working in the social games area.

what's your old work then?

Bungie Software, EA, Origin, SOE. Ultima Online, Everquest, etc. I come from the AAA, mostly MMO game space.

These days I'm a platform programmer, meaning I don't work on individual titles but on the underlying technology that those titles are built on. I'm supporting 14 or so games at the moment.

classy

EQOA? awesomeness.

Those are some nice titles to have under your belt.

indeed

You can't even say whether you worked on games or not? Harsh.

New question:

What kind of music do all you admins/mods enjoy? Who are your favourite bands?

Edit: Not harsh of you to not say so, harsh of Disney for not allowing you to.

my turn. Jaerik, what year and type of computer did you start to learn programming on? I took computer engineering in college 90-92 on the old 386/486 systems back in the tcp/ip days. oh i hated it. curious your first experience.

You need to ask Him about that? Isn't it blatantly obvious as to why I would do so? Do not waste Jaerik's time with such a ridiculous question.

Nah, I'm just not sure it's a good idea. I don't wanna wade into some strange PR triangulation between Disney, Square, and this site.

It's weird, I never really took up programming as a "this is what I want to do" thing. Rather, I wanted to work on games, and programming was the tool necessary to Make Things. Unlike most senior programmers I know, I'm not overly enamored by the actual art of huddling in a cube somewhere and feverishly typing code. I see it as a complex engineering puzzle necessary to execute well, in order to move on with the actual important work of Making Cool ***.

As such, it's kinda hard to say when I "started programming," because I don't think I saw it as a momentous occasion and thus wasn't really paying much attention. My first tinkering around was in C++ and Java back in the mid to late 90's, so that would be, if I remember right, around the time of the first Pentiums. But I did have a Commodore 64 back when I was a wee tyke, and pirated my first 300 or so games at age 7 before realizing, much later, what I had actually done.

Commodore ftw! Mine was a plus/4 and at around 6-7 years old I had to learn to change machine code for games made for the 64 to run on the plus/4. Good times.

You still have yours? I still even have my tape drive (where you could use audio tapes to record programs)

No. =/ Most of the stuff from my childhood got lost in the shuffle between two countries and my parents' seven marriages.

the internet is run on tcp/ip, I fail to see what you stating it has to do with anything.

Pretty sure he meant the early days of tcp/ip, before it became the accepted protocol. The timing would be about right. No need to jump down his throat.

pentiums were early-mid 90's iirc.

sorry, should have inquired as to what he meant...

random note, I just acquired an Atari, no games though...

Do you prefer living in Japan or the US?

Samurai irl!

seven marriages??????

did you ever access the internet in 90-92? there was no windows, no icon to click on the screen and you are connected. you use to have to type in the prompt TCP/IP yadda yadda etc. to get onto ftp sites and stuff. that kind of thing. have to forgive me if i am a little inaccurate about that cause it has been 18-20 years since i used to have to do that, maybe others can add to what i mean by that. I know it is all still there, just done thru windows and icons for you. back then you had to do it all maunally. That is what i meant. My first attempt at programming was in 6th grade on an Apple IIe computer. good times.

inb4 jetackuu and lol apple.

i just wanna know more about geisha culture ;[ the internet doesnt seem to provide enough accurate information.

then it's back in the manual configuration not back in the tcp/ip days, because we're "still in those days" sorry about the lack of miscomunication. I know full well of the nonsense before gui, in fact I quite enjoy command line at times, but only for the lulz, not for practical application. I know people who do things today in command line, but mostly for unix/linux server operations.

Even though you quit playing 2 years ago (if your page is correct), you still see the progression of the game today. what are your thoughts on things like abyssea and hot topics of late. Job changes, level cap increases. just curious what you think.

since macs started using an intel based platform, they lost everything they had going for them, they are entirely obsolete now. I'm sorry that you don't realize this.