Xark

A game dev for 42 years 🤯, now retired and having fun telling game dev "war stories" and designing, building and playing with retro electronics projects (hardware, software and gateware).

My first full-time game dev job was in 1981 and I retired as a Technical Director in 2023. I've been so lucky to have been able to work on games, game engines and game tech for most of the popular home computers and game consoles (many released titles). I was a founding partner in the game company Mass Media and helped work to build it up and have it acquired (twice - once by THQ and then again by 2K Games).

I have lots of experience with low-level development (various assembly languages, C, C++, etc.), optimization and lately VHDL/SystemVerilog with FPGAs. I love needing to "get creative" dealing with technical limitations and often that is where the real fun happens. Stick around if you enjoy learning about retro tech, retro development or just like crazy old-school development stories.