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Over Seven Years Ago

Posted: Fri 13 Dec, 2013 9:00 pm
by Toaster
Hi,

Over 7 years ago I joined this forum as a teen looking to learn how to program for my TI-83 Plus. Thanks to the help people gave to me on these forums I did just that. I want to say thank you to everyone who taught me! It helped me form a career path, and I am now a successful software engineer. If I hadn't of been so inspired to create games on the TI-83 Plus I doubt I would be in the position I am today. Some of you might remember me, I remember when desolate first came out, and how awesome it was. I remember when my close friend Calvin released his first game: "PaRappa The Rapper"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2StZOICG3iY

I remember most of the projects I worked on, and I remember not finishing even one of them. I had a short attention span. lol

Thanks for the good times, and for the great learning experience!

-Toaster

Re: Over Seven Years Ago

Posted: Sat 14 Dec, 2013 2:15 am
by tr1p1ea
Hey Toaster! Very glad to hear from you and even more glad to hear of your success outside of the calculator world :).

Thanks for popping in to say hello, sadly this place is pretty quiet these days.

Re: Over Seven Years Ago

Posted: Sun 22 Dec, 2013 6:39 am
by benryves
Good to hear from you Toaster, and glad to hear you've turned a hobby and interest into a successful career. What sort of development work are you doing? Are you still in contact with Calvin?

Re: Over Seven Years Ago

Posted: Wed 07 Oct, 2015 1:41 pm
by Toaster
Sorry I never replied until now. Calvin just recently got married, and bought a house! He had a pretty nice wedding. He is also working as a software engineer. At the time of the original post I was doing some freelance web programming. Now I work for a small but really awesome company mainly do a lot of front end development. Very recently they have started to get into game development which is pretty nice. I've also been working on the side with a team called unearthly entertainment. They are making a voxel minecraft clone, but with spherical planets, which I've been programming from the ground up. I think they plan on releasing a video soon...

Re: Over Seven Years Ago

Posted: Sun 11 Oct, 2015 10:52 pm
by DJ_O
Hey TOaster, long time no see (I wonder if you remember me, since I changed nicknames often after you left, but I made The Reign of Legends 3 and Reuben Quest) :)

I am curious about the Minecraft voxel clone. You should post a video in the projects section when ready :) Tr1p1ea is also working on his own Minecraft clone, for Android.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAmp3rnPNyQ


I have only released one calculator game recently (I remember when I pumped them out every few week back then)