Kaidyn

Position: Programming / Design / Bug Fixing / Bug Investigation Do you understand that Wildfire Games is a non-commercial project, work for 0 A.D. is volunteer, and work is done for free? Yes Do you agree to distribute all your work for Wildfire Games under Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license? Yes Name: Kaidyn Email: kaidyn01@gmail.com MSN Messenger: N/A Location: Australia Availability: 6 - 10 hours a week Age: 21 Occupation: Student, Mainframe Storage Administrator Skills and Experience: 3 Years of University at University of Ballarat, 2 years of Formal Industry Multimedia Training (TAFE) & 2 Years at one of the largest IT companies in the world Platforms: Win 7 (Primary) / Linux Languages: Desktop: C#, C++, Java Web based: PHP,XHTML,JavaScript,MySQL,XML, ActionScript Motivation: Currently required to partake in a university assignment to contribute to an Open Source project in addition I have a strong interest in gaming and game development. Once I'm hooked on an idea, my desire for self-satisfaction takes over. Personality: "Ideas Man" - Good at coming up with ideas and perusing them. 'In order to think outside the square; you need to take a step out of the square... ' - Just came to me then... Short Essay: The author of this post suggested this project to me the other day.I liked the idea of contributing to a game, one of my many childhood ambitions was to become a games developer. As large consumer of OpenSource - I Feel that to give my appreciation I must pass on the favour. Interests and Hobbies: Gym, Walking the Dog, General computer usage Staff: No Community: None Favorite Game: Hardware: Online Arena (PS2 title to introduce the idea of "Online Gaming") Work Examples: Designed and developed websites as a hobby. General spur of the moment ideas that I've created something to solve a problem. Other: One of the first things I would like to do is add a 'random ' map button/selection to the Single Player GUI interface - Reading a suggestion on the forums I've also noticed the request for a 'Difficulty' Selection - Perhaps while I'm at it I could create the place holder for this selection ?