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Geek Culture / Who are you in the digital world? / Skills?

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DJ Almix
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I was thinking this is a game development/geek/tech forum and what are your skills? Like programming, graphics, ect. For me I am an environment modeler, logo designer, do pretty good web design oh and starting to become a DJ.

Well?

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AndrewT
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DBP and C++ Programmer, mediocre 3D artist, mediocre 2D artist. That's about it.

i like orange
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Gunn3r
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Logo design
Web design
Level design
Music design... (Okay, so it doesn't fit, but it had to flow...)

My most recent work has mainly been in music and can be seen here.

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Black Rebel Heart
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I maintain a very important website.
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Megaton Cat
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Raving are you talking professionally or hobby?
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Matt Rock
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game designer, DBP coder, level designer, writer, and director. And unfortunately, soon to be a voice actor as well.

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Lemonade
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Quote: "I maintain a very important website. "


You think we're dieing to know what your talking about, don't you?

Check out my tech blog below!
http://cooltech-sciencelab.blogspot.com/
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Sid Sinister
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Quote: "I maintain a very important website. "


Oh? Is it the one that's near your profile button? It's missing links and pages... just fyi.

3D Artist/Animator, HTML Web Programmer and Graphic Designer. I'll be getting my Animation degree this semester, working on some big projects over the summer and hopefully find myself with an animation job of some sort, freelance or not, by the fall. Currently I'm a freelance web developer (I only know HTML and CSS right now), but have had a couple of NICE jobs and am working on one right now. I'm also a decent graphic designer, but it's not something I promote or thoroughly enjoy most of the time.

"If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants" - Isaac Newton
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Van B
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My geek level would be 'Makes his own games'. Can't really say what level I think I am, I just know that if it's a skill I think I'll need then I'll at least try to learn it.

Being able to generate anything you need from code to media as well as ideas is a good place to be, for me it's the only place to be.


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Toasty Fresh
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A monster at 3D modeling, and can't do any maths.

"You are not smart! You are very un-smart!"
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Darth Vader
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Posted: 1st May 2009 11:37 Edited at: 1st May 2009 11:40
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Bludger, Sucker, use people, lazy... Wait... Oh I'm reading Rami's resume! Sorry!


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Libervurto
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I'm a great whiner, waaaah I don't have any skills!!
I'm a mediocre coder, I like making quirky programs but my maths knowledge is pretty basic (1+1=2 etc)
I don't do any geeky stuff other than DB, apart from a little html till I got bored of it and buying a hitman outfit for my PS3 Home character

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Alucard94
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Rather okay at 3D and 2D graphics. Can't program for the life of me.


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Grandma
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Posted: 1st May 2009 15:02
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Quote: "Rather okay at 3D"

Rather okay?

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 1st May 2009 15:21 Edited at: 1st May 2009 15:37
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As a geek, all my digital skills are just hobbies:

3D Graphics and Animation: Cinema 4D, Carrara, Silo, Hexagon. Sample Sample2
Level Design: Hexagon, Cinema 4D, Carrara, Deled, MapScape, Torque Constructor and TGE's editor, Unity3D's editor. No Sample
Game Design: Lotus Symphony, Open Office, Microsoft Word, pen and paper. Sample
UV Mapping: Carrara, Lithunwrap. No Samples
Programming: Dark Basic Pro, Unity3D, C++ with Dark GDK, HTML (not as if it's difficult). Sample
Writing Tutorials Sample1 Sample2 Sample3
Writing Articles. See Blog
Blagging information. See most of the posts where I pretend to know something
Never finishing projects. Sample
Visiting these forums. Sample

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puppyofkosh
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Used to be modeler and texturer now doing c++ and web design.
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Jeku
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Only a programmer with absolutely zero graphic art skill and no artist to collaborate with. I have a friend in Puerto Rico helping me with 2D art for my iPhone games, but he's not a 3D modeler. Oh well!

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Grandma
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Everyone's so modest. Jeku, didn't you do music?

I won't reveal my strengths just in case my enemies are watching.

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 1st May 2009 18:58 Edited at: 1st May 2009 18:59
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Modesty's for squares, that's why I am so great.

Whilst my enemies are baffled by my strengths, I can just execute my plans to take them down.

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Alucard94
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I'm afraid that if I'd stop being modest someone would hit me in the head with a hammer.


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kaedroho
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Im a bit like Jeku. Do loads of coding and have absolutely no Graphic art skill.

I do game engine and software programming mostly. I also do Web Design and PIC Programming (PICs are very small computers which I use for projects from blinking lights to generating video signals)

I use

ASM
C/C++
DBPro
HTML
PHP
MySQL
GML
LUA
XML

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Lost in Thought
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Same here. pretty much 110% programmer and -10% much of anything else.

Mostly I do industrial machine programming with PLC's.

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 1st May 2009 20:26 Edited at: 1st May 2009 20:27
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I enjoy messing around with graphics design (although I'm really bad at it, hehe), and I also enjoy programming. As a profession I'm considering pursuing a career in web development, so I'm currently learning HTML and CSS, then I'll move on to the more advanced languages (Javascript...).

I also enjoy filming and editing video. Creating special effects that normally cost a few hundred dollars (like light sabers) for free is really fun, but time-consuming. Trust me: it's worth the $700 for Adobe After Effects if you choose that as your career path.

I've made one 'usable' game that I entered in NaGaCreMo '09, but I never finished it (completed three levels, then just let it die). I couldn't even figure out how to save a hiscore table. I really do enjoy programming, it makes me feel like I'm in control of my computer.

I used to do a little 3D modeling, but haven't done anything in at least a year.

And that's me in the digital world. Sorry for the longish post!

I've just updated my site! Please visit!

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Inspire
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Web Design
Video Editing
Music
Photography
Modeling / Texturing
Level Design
Procastination
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RalphY
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Quote: "Mostly I do industrial machine programming with PLC's."


I've done a little bit of PLC programming myself, I mostly do higher level programming though (C#, etc...).

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Roxas
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Programmer also a Reverse-Engineer,
Networking protocol designer (or w/e it is),
Bad 3d Artist,
Bad 2d Artist,
Web Designer, PHP, CSS, Javascript

Maybe more stuff, but i don't really care.

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Tom J
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Currently -

Some C++ (inc. Leadwerks)
Web Design
Level Design

Previously used DBC/P.

If you see a thread of mine in GDT, please don't expect it to go anywhere.
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BiggAdd
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Quote: "Maybe more stuff, but i don't really care."

Then why did you post if you didn't care?

My skills are:

-Making Toast
-Impersonating inanimate objects
-A knowledge of a wide vocabulary of complicated words, like "The" and "At"
-The ability to spot a cat in a line of birds
-Using a pen the right way up

etc etc..

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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My skills are writing awful C software, 3D modellingish and crashing Macs.

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Monk
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An odd mix of sport and computing

Neither of which I can do well =( (well, to my own standards)

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AndrewT
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Quote: "-The ability to spot a cat in a line of birds"



Ahh, but can you spot a bird in a line of cats? Very tricky.

i like orange
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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 1st May 2009 22:37 Edited at: 1st May 2009 22:37
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It took me a while to realise that the bird was always inside of the cat.

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Venge
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I used to do programming, hence the 8+ books on my bookshelf collecting dust, but now I just do 3D art for that ever-so-wonderful company MISoft.

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Neuro Fuzzy
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I'd say im a coder on the ammateur-intermediate level. I also know how to program for microchips . I'm also awesome at math! well, awesome at MY level math anyways. (I'm studying ahead also, if i haven't started on pre calculus in ~3 months, bug me about it!) uuuh, i like spending class time programming my graphing calculator. I'd rather spend a weekend infront of my computer than a weekend on the beach (unless it was a weekend infront of my computer at the beach)
uuuh, yeah.
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Insanity Complex
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Learning C++ Programmer
Hobbyist Photoshop User
Hobbyist HTML/CSS "Programmer"
Hobbyist Python Programmer
Hobbyist 3D Modeler(Not so much, but considering getting back in it)


www.aeriagames.com <-They have some decent ones
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flashing snall
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Programming in dbp, xna (C#), gdk, and some java. Alright with 2d art, and not so good with 3d art.
I dont know if Im really a geek or not. Personally, Im nothing like a geek, but I seem to partake in some geek activities.



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Jimpo
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Programming - DBPro
That sums up my skill set.

Quote: "I dont know if Im really a geek or not."

Quote: "I seem to partake in some geek activities."

I think you answered your own question. Also, you're posting in a forum called Geek Culture

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jasonhtml
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Almost all of these I learned from hobby, but i've used some professionally:

Programming/Markup: C++, DBP, Java, Python, MEL, HTML, CSS, HLSL, PHP, JavaScript
Website Development: Dreamweaver MX
3D Modeling: Anim8or, Maya 2008
UV Wrapping: LithUnwrap
3D Animation: CharacterFX, Milkshape 3D
2D Animation: Flash MX
2D Art: Fireworks MX

after reading this list over, i feel very well rounded i just wish my 3D modeling/animating skills were better

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Red Wizard Studios
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Programming/Markup: C++, DBP, GDK, SDL, HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL
Website Development: Notepad++
3D Modeling: Lightwave 7 - model, texture, bone, animate, render, light
2D Art: Photoshop - skinning websites, manipulating images, etc.
Photography : Canon G3 and a Canon D70 dSLR


I also have some fairly solid mathematical skills and my problem solving skills are very useful if you need a solution and dont care how damn ugly the solution is(because it'll work - it just wont look nice).

I'm currently in the process of trying to focus on one project for more than 5 minuites so i can get a portfolio up
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JoelJ
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I am proficient in:
C#
Java
Flex
and formerly DBP

I'm getting decently good with C++

And I know a bit of Ruby. I'll be taking a Ruby/Rails class that the local Ruby User Group is doing for free, starting in the next week or two.

And then I know a lot of stuff along side of that: SQL, XML, HTML, CSS, etc. But wouldn't call myself a pro with them, but I definitely could use any of those in a project if I needed/wanted to.

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Jeku
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I have experience with too many languages than I can list here or even remember. I've always been comfortable with learning just enough as I need to do a task and then leaving it forever if need be. For example I learned what I needed of ASP.NET for a project back in '05 and left it after about 6 months. What's the point of filling our heads with extra stuff if we will never use it? At least I can put them all on my resume if needed

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jasonhtml
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Quote: "I have experience with too many languages than I can list here or even remember. I've always been comfortable with learning just enough as I need to do a task and then leaving it forever if need be. For example I learned what I needed of ASP.NET for a project back in '05 and left it after about 6 months. What's the point of filling our heads with extra stuff if we will never use it? At least I can put them all on my resume if needed"


ya, thats kinda how it is with me and Python and MEL... i learned them to use at my job, and now i don't know if i will ever use them again

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flashing snall
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Quote: "I think you answered your own question. Also, you're posting in a forum called Geek Culture"

Well shucks, Geek I am.



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David R
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Programming, mainly focused on C++ at the moment

Currently learning Obj-C and Cocoa too.


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DJ Almix
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Nice people not enough artists though . I could never code it's wayyy to hard.., but then I hear that programmers can do art .

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Before seeing this, I acctually thought that ASM was a widly used language! Its also the only language that doesnt have any bugs!

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Inspire
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What about binary? (I don't know much about this)
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Jeku
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Quote: "Its also the only language that doesnt have any bugs!"


Please explain.

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David R
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Quote: "Its also the only language that doesnt have any bugs!"


ASM represents CPU instructions, and CPUs themselves often have bugs, so therefore your statement is incorrect


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Jeku
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I can name several languages that don't inherently have bugs, including C++. Once you start using APIs, that's where you will find your bugs.

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