Super catching headline

I used to be a hobbyist game developer. It started with small computer games then in the beginning of the android era - I started making mobile games and that eventually turned into a full time job.

As you might expect this obliterated my hobby and I'm now a simple JAVA developer.

back-end only of course

And please - I've had the conversation:

"Oh but Nikki, but what about sometimes, very seldom, just a little javascript?" - Nah, Bro.

"But Nikki, can you at least read it? It's easy, Nikki. Can you read it?" - Bitch, I can read Latin as well, I said no - java only. One life, one love, get it?

Back in 2015 the CEO of the company I worked for said that I'm worth my weight in gold - and I was quite skinny back then. Gold price is way higher now, moreover I've gained weight in the past few years, so the prospects are beyond comprehension.

Listen... I have an above-average sense of humor, so if you landed on this page from linkedin or something, speak to your manager and the HR department before speaking to me. Apart from charisma, nothing explains how I'm still employed. I am the guy who takes it too far!

Of course it is not, dear. The thing is that java projects are usually quite complex and include a lot of technologies, frameworks and libraries so I can't really list all of them.

I've been through shit. I've cried in the bathroom, I've cried in front of people. I've cried in the bathroom in front of people.

Please skip this section, I swear you're not interested.

Listen... I know what you're imagining - Unity, drag and drop, glitter and happiness everywhere... This is not the case. You see Game Development was not easy back then, Unity was yet to become a thing so all the games I developed were using Game Maker Studio, which means:

• Texturing polygons was done the old school way - by triangulating and mathematics and don't even get me started on the 'concave polygon' thing - this is hell!
• Fancy effects were not premade assets but FREAKING GLSL shaders and complicated particle systems
• Android phones were not as powerful back then so performance of games was a manual thing
• Complicated movements were done with a lot of geometry and mathematics such as linear/bilinear interpolation
• Menu items, buttons, tweens and stuff like this was entirely manual, there was not thing like drag/slide listeners and so on. There were no UI components. Everything was to be coded from scratch
• My first commercial game had a memory leak and I lost the private key so I could not sign the .apk and it could never be updated on Google Play... I was young and dull.

This was a lot of weird ass coding.

Perhaps you've read enough, perhaps you didn't even read it. I know I wouldn't have, because let's face it - who would read so much text. Nobody has the time for this.

Here's a photo of me dressed up as Santa.

Fascinating...

Because you might do that "Hey, I saw your website and I liked it!" intro. I'm a social person, I love going out with people, drinking beers and chilling. I play video games when I get the chance to and it mostly happens during the night (yes, I stay up at night, maybe until 3-4 in the morning)