Hi,
My name is Derek Sneed. I live in the Chicago area of Illinois
and I am 18 years old (as if any of that mattered).
I.
Love.
Adventure Games.
It is a part of my childhood (my younger childhood, hey! I'm still a kid). I have so many fond memories of me and my younger sister playing Day of the Tentacle and absolutely loving it. Full Throttle, Monkey Island, The Dig. All that good, purely classic stuff that makes me sigh and smile dreamily into the blue sky. My greatest regret in my gaming life is that I have... Not been... Able to play Grim Fandango yet. :O gasp! I know! It's horrid of me. But I'm waiting for a Linux version.
Yes. I am a Linux person. Ubuntu actually. I made the switch from windows to ubuntu after my beloved PC was totally infected with viruses. Stoopid Trojans. Now I am sad. Because AGS's IDE doesn't have a Linux version yet. (fingers crossed, breath held, rabbits foot rubbed, magic 8 ball shaken like crazy) I can prolly set up a dual boot sometime in the future though when I feel like it... and find my stupid windows XP cd.
I took a few programming classes my senior year (last year) and learned a little C++ which has proven to be awesomely worth it when I found out about AGS.
I've been parousing the indie game scene for a while now and really love it. A lot. I like the people. I like ideas. I like freedom. I like the underground community feeling to it. It's great.
I've had a ton of great little ideas for fun, dark, happy, tragic, epic, deep, emotional, artsy adventure games.
So far, none of them have made it past a few little word documents and maybe some unrefined character design,
(E.G. Exibit A:
Old Guy for a thingy I was thinking about)
Concept Art,
(E.G. Exibit B:
Propaganda for a game
And Exibit C:
Concept art for an artsy, moody game)
And other little things like that.
What I would love... Is to work on a game with a certain someone around these parts that goes by the name Ben 304.
(hint hint)
But... Eh he's prolly busy and stuff being awesome.
So I'll try and get most of this stuff done myself.
Anyways, love this community. Hope to work and chat with a lot of you and learn a bunch.
I had to try and refrain from saying a bunch of other things I'm interested in; but why the heck not? They ring my bell and I like them a lot.
• Indie/Chiptune/Music In General,
Music is just awesome. Best invention ever.
little-scale, Of Monteal, Anamanaguchi, The Depreciation Guild, Forest World, Mates of State, Mewithoutyou, The Cranberries, The Temper Trap, The Devil Wears Prada, Flying Lotus, Michael Andrews, Ben Folds, Plankeye, and a ton more are favorites of mine.
• Playing/Making music.
I play piano, gameboy using LSDJ, and a little guitar. I'm way better at piano than the other two. Way.
• Archetecture
• Furniture Design
• Cooking
• Art Toys
• Graphic Design
• Writing
• Fashion
Once again. Hi, can't wait to learn a lot.
My name is Derek Sneed. I live in the Chicago area of Illinois
and I am 18 years old (as if any of that mattered).
I.
Love.
Adventure Games.
It is a part of my childhood (my younger childhood, hey! I'm still a kid). I have so many fond memories of me and my younger sister playing Day of the Tentacle and absolutely loving it. Full Throttle, Monkey Island, The Dig. All that good, purely classic stuff that makes me sigh and smile dreamily into the blue sky. My greatest regret in my gaming life is that I have... Not been... Able to play Grim Fandango yet. :O gasp! I know! It's horrid of me. But I'm waiting for a Linux version.
Yes. I am a Linux person. Ubuntu actually. I made the switch from windows to ubuntu after my beloved PC was totally infected with viruses. Stoopid Trojans. Now I am sad. Because AGS's IDE doesn't have a Linux version yet. (fingers crossed, breath held, rabbits foot rubbed, magic 8 ball shaken like crazy) I can prolly set up a dual boot sometime in the future though when I feel like it... and find my stupid windows XP cd.
I took a few programming classes my senior year (last year) and learned a little C++ which has proven to be awesomely worth it when I found out about AGS.
I've been parousing the indie game scene for a while now and really love it. A lot. I like the people. I like ideas. I like freedom. I like the underground community feeling to it. It's great.
I've had a ton of great little ideas for fun, dark, happy, tragic, epic, deep, emotional, artsy adventure games.
So far, none of them have made it past a few little word documents and maybe some unrefined character design,
(E.G. Exibit A:
Old Guy for a thingy I was thinking about)
Concept Art,
(E.G. Exibit B:
Propaganda for a game
And Exibit C:
Concept art for an artsy, moody game)
And other little things like that.
What I would love... Is to work on a game with a certain someone around these parts that goes by the name Ben 304.
(hint hint)
But... Eh he's prolly busy and stuff being awesome.
So I'll try and get most of this stuff done myself.
Anyways, love this community. Hope to work and chat with a lot of you and learn a bunch.
I had to try and refrain from saying a bunch of other things I'm interested in; but why the heck not? They ring my bell and I like them a lot.
• Indie/Chiptune/Music In General,
Music is just awesome. Best invention ever.
little-scale, Of Monteal, Anamanaguchi, The Depreciation Guild, Forest World, Mates of State, Mewithoutyou, The Cranberries, The Temper Trap, The Devil Wears Prada, Flying Lotus, Michael Andrews, Ben Folds, Plankeye, and a ton more are favorites of mine.
• Playing/Making music.
I play piano, gameboy using LSDJ, and a little guitar. I'm way better at piano than the other two. Way.
• Archetecture
• Furniture Design
• Cooking
• Art Toys
• Graphic Design
• Writing
• Fashion
Once again. Hi, can't wait to learn a lot.