Would...you...like...to...play...a...game?

"Would you like to play a game?"

I still hear that in the strange, computer generated voice from the 80's. "War Games" started a whole generation down the path to jobs in computer science. At that time, I had already had my Commodore 64 for several years. I had fun making sprites dance across the screen. I had the Game Construction Set and made my own side scrolling shooter based on "Air Wolf". All I wanted to do was make games for a living, or at least as a hobby.

So I joined the Navy.

Yeah, ok, it seemed like a good idea at the time. By the time I got out, the dotcom crash was just around the corner. The computer industry was completed flooded with people fresh out of college and I didn't even have my degree yet. So, dreams put on hold, I went into marketing.

Yeah, marketing. Hey, we are all allowed to make a mistake.

So, here I am. Definately not going to make computer games for a living. So it is time to fall back on number 2: making games as a hobby.

Luckly, Garage Games has made a great engine for hobbiest to use to produce games. My goal is to learn about the engine and how to use it and to share that information.

Who knows, maybe someday one of my readers will produce the next "Quake" or "World of Warcraft."