I studied computational physics in university. With math, science and video games as much of the driving force, I developer and software engineer. I've had a passion for math and science all throughout my life, and learning in highschool about the fundamental way physics uses math to explain real-world phenomena motivated me to study the subject in college. However, at the tail-end of highschool I started to learn more about the world of programming and software that was entirely new to me from a fellow classmate that was heavily interested in the subject. I began to learn on my own over time about the various different programming languages and technologies that developers used to create software. Throughout the learning process, I ended up trying out so many different languages and technologies and learned so much about how software is made.

Throughout this process I began to understand what I wanted to become as a developer as well as what I wanted to create with my newfound programming knowledge. Growing up, I loved playing video games. They impacted my life greatly, allowing me to exercise my young mind through the conquering of various challenges they presented in their gameplay. Not only that, but they allowed for me to socialize with others in multiplayer as I played them with my brothers, parents, friends and random people all throughout the world. While I understand the childish nature games may represent to adults, I believe that games have incredible power and how popular video games are in modern society is proof of that. That is why I aim to make games: in the hopes of making something that can impact someone's life in the way that they've already impacted mine.

This strive to become an "indie" game developer has led me to prioritize the process and ultimate end-goal of making a game rather than other programming practices. This means that most of my projects use game engines rather than being built from scratch with more general-purpose languages to speed up the development process and, in some ways, delegate alot of work to the developers of the game engines themselves. Specifically GameMaker, a 2D focused game engine that I've developed a fondness and competancy with. It was the engine that introduced me into game development in the senior year in highschool. After trying various other game engines and programming languages, I somehow ended back up at GameMaker so that is what I mainly use today and is the source of most of my games and projects. I know how GameMaker is looked down upon compared to other "real" development environments like Unity or Unreal, but I believe that good games can come from anywhere. I wanted to use something to make games; I didn't want to need something to make games. GameMaker is a fine tool to make games, and that is evident since some of my favorite games were made in it.