Hi there. My name is Andy, stand for Andrei. But friends call me Semeth.
Originally i'm a romanian, but right now i live in Italy - Caserta. I'm 21 years old, on 25th this month i'll be 22.
1. Detailed me...
2. Interests and personality
3. Game experience
1.
So, like I said, I come from Romania, but I live in Italy right now, due to the fact that Romania started to be very unbalanced when it comes to surviving. Italy wasn't really my choise, my parents were the bosses in this decision. Although it's not such a bad place, but i do miss my friends. I moved here three months ago.
Finished highschool last year on electro-tech subject (yay, I can play with peoples electrical system), but not really my call. Looking forward for programming collage.
2. This is the part where you might know me better :P
Like everybody on this site, I'm interested in games mostly. I've played them since I was 5 and can never get bored of it. The PC is my immortal friend for this kind of job.
I love music when it comes to Rock, Punk, Alternative, Theatrical, Orchestral... and other genres that may be similar to the ones mentioned.
When it comes to stories, I'm there. I love a good story. Like to read them, watch them, play them, even write them. I'm an epic-maniac if I can say so myself.
Books read until now: Wardstone Chronicles, a few books from D. Brown, some mythological stories that raised my interest, and mostly fantasy, psychological and detective genres.
What am I doing this time of year ? Well, I'm in job hunting. Being in another country which has a language I cannot yet use, it's hard for someone like me to support itself. Rough times, just like everywhere in the world. This time of year I'm also preparing for Christmas, along with my birthday, with only my family at my side, wish friends were here. And can't wait to get into that christmas spirit that everybody else waits.
3. When it comes to game experience, oh boy.
Started when I was 5, with Super Mario Brothers on NES. Wow, people were moving when I pressed buttons, how cool can that be. As exited as was back there, that was only the beginning. I tried a lot of games my whole time, all possible genres, and I can tell... people out there are really good for making such great video games. My real experience on RPG was when I first played Little Ninja Brothers on NES. really entertaining with a good plot. But as limited the NES was back then, so was the story, but that didn't counted at all, because back then, those were the games that gave us the start into forming what we are today. My desire for RPGs grew and grew, i've tried almost every platform out there, starting from NES, SNES, N64, GBC, GBA, WS, PS1, SEGA, PS2, PSP, PS3, NDS, can't remember all of them but those are most of them. Couldn't really afford all those platforms, but I was able to get my hand on them one way or another (friends owning them).
I've played series of famous RPGs as well as not so very known.
Kingdom Hearts series, Disgaea series, Summon Knight series, Tales of series, Shin Megami series, series over series over series. And those are only the important titles inside my head.
I came with ideas of my own, after other people told me I'm good in writing, I told to myself, it's not enough, I wanted people to understand my stories than just simply read them. I wanted them converted in video games. I first started when I came across with this little thingie that everybody knows called, RM95. And that's when it started. Look for examples, look for resources, look for tutorials, look for eveything that's related to RPG Maker. My life started a new way. I was making video games. But that wasn't enough. I know that RPG Maker is a bit limited compared with what's out there. And wanted to learn more. I started to be interested in the mechanics of games, that's when I came across to the term Programming. New gates were opened. I studied myself at home, since out schools never teached us programming. I started with basic stuff in C, but soon learned that it wasn't as easy as it looked. No, this is big stuff. Reaching highschool at this point, I realised that if I wanted to make something out of it, I should go to the place where people learn this stuff. In Romania, these things can only be teached in collage.
And that's my plan right now. Going to learn programming as it should, and start a career in game programming. Not because I want a particular story of mine to become a video game, but because I really love making video games, I want them to have good friendly mechanics that people will enjoy.
But, reality check for now, I'm still far away from those goals, and until then, this is the place where I want to start. I want to start with basic RPGs with the help of RMs. People seem to like them, me too, and it's not a bad way to start.
Well, don't know if I got you bored or interested, but, for starters I really had the need to share all I have written. I'm filled with passion when it comes for video games, don't how many people are there that can truly understand me, but I hope, that some of you readers, could feel a little bit of that soul of mine.
I will begin my ways through this place looking for some help, giving some help etc. and hope for a nice and warm RPGing :P
Semeth here, whink.
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