Hi my name is Nicky Fieu I'm 19 and live in Belgium. I have kind of participated once in a game jam when i was younger around 14 but never really got anything made out of that since i had no experience at all back then. I currently am studying Digital arts & entertainment (Game development) at Howest Kortrijk. I've got about 2 years of c++ experience and 1 year of experience in a SDL/openGL framework(from my school). Currently I'm working on my own GLFW/GLEW/openGL engine. I'm gonna be joining jams trough the whole summer to gain more experience and to not make my workflow go rusty. I also have some experience using 3ds max ( modeling, unwrapping, ao baking, texturing) no PBR or Rigging just yet but I will trying to learn how PBR and rigging works troughout the summer.
I didn't join the previous jam. My reason for joining is simple I've got time now this summer to do this whilst I'm in vacation from school. Another reason would be to tryout new things and make my workflow not go rusty.
Well I've been playing games since i was a toddler of 4 years old the game that really started my whole obsession with games was Stronghold Crusader since it was the game i first played as a really young lad together with my bigger brother that's 10 years older than me. I played that game for atleast 6 years with some other games alongside it like age of empires I and age of mythology(titans expansion). No game ever really inspired me to make my own game but what gaming for so many years has done for me is inspire me to get into the industry. for the past 2 years i can really say that the journey has been a blast learning allot of new things in not only programming but math and modeling 3D objects.
I have about 2 years of experience, 1 year of toying around in unity/unreal and 1 year of using a SDL/openGL based framework/engine whatever you want to call it.
I really love strategy games / programming / math they are allot of fun to all do unlike stuff like 3D modeling shooter games and art in general it really just gets me bored and I cant keep my concentration on them
My goals for this jam would be making a finished game, optimizing my workflow, learning new stuff along the way and maybe meet some new and interesting people as well.