{"id":102,"date":"2024-12-29T12:24:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T12:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playinfinitree.com\/?page_id=102"},"modified":"2025-01-20T21:38:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T21:38:54","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/playinfinitree.com\/index.php\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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For the last couple of years, I\u2019ve been working toward becoming the game developer I always wanted to be. It\u2019s a dream I\u2019ve had since before I was ten, back when I spent endless hours on our old MS-DOS tower desktop. My siblings and I played everything we could get our hands on\u2014Warcraft II<\/em>, Wacky Wheels<\/em>, Hocus Pocus<\/em>, Crystal Caves<\/em>, C&C: Red Alert<\/em>, Day of the Tentacle<\/em>, Curse of Monkey Island<\/em>\u2014you name it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Exploration<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Some of those early games really inspired me. Exploring a kid-friendly programming language (START) opened my eyes to the endless possibilities of game creation. I loved sketching levels for imaginary games, dreaming up action platformers, and envisioning the most beautiful pioneer cities in Anno 1602<\/em>. I kept playing and loving games for years, but I never truly \u201cgot started\u201d on making one. I didn\u2019t have a clear vision of a game I wanted to create\u2014there are so many<\/strong> great ones out there already!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Getting ready to play 5 hours straight<\/strong><\/em> of C&C: Red Alert 1<\/em> skirmish in the back, on our dad’s work laptop on a long summer vacation drive.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Inspiration and Dedication<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Around 2020, something changed. Trees have always been a subtle but recurring theme in games I\u2019ve enjoyed, and when I learning about Pando\u2014the enormous tree super-colony in Utah\u2014 it sparked my imagination. Inspiration struck , and I had an idea for a game that felt exciting and clicked with me on multiple levels. It gave me the push to explore this concept further and see where it might lead.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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First time i cleared SMB3<\/em> on the NES (2007) Wearing the teddy fleece vest that would inspire the nickname: Ch\u00e9 Koala.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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And now:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

By early 2023, I decided to stop dreaming and start doing. I began teaching myself to work with Godot 4.2, committing to weekly sessions of learning and creating. It\u2019s been a fulfilling journey with plenty of ups and downs, but the idea has grown into a project I truly love. There\u2019s still a long way to go, but I\u2019m getting somewhere\u2014and I\u2019m excited to keep going. Let\u2019s do this!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Solo Game-Dev For the last couple of years, I\u2019ve been working toward becoming the game developer I always wanted to be. It\u2019s a dream I\u2019ve had since before I was ten, back when I spent endless hours on our old MS-DOS tower desktop. My siblings and I played everything we could get our hands on\u2014Warcraft […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-102","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinfinitree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinfinitree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinfinitree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinfinitree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinfinitree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/playinfinitree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/playinfinitree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinfinitree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}