{"id":871,"date":"2015-06-03T18:58:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T18:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/msminotaur.com\/?page_id=871"},"modified":"2015-06-03T23:03:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T23:03:00","slug":"about-me-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/msminotaur.com\/?page_id=871","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"travel_adriel\"<\/a>My name is Adriel Wallick and I am an independent video game developer based out of the Netherlands!<\/p>\n

I am the organizer of an annual game jam known as Train Jam<\/a>, a game designer, and a programmer. I have worked on a number of commercial releases<\/a>, have participated in numerous game jams<\/a>, and once spent an entire year creating\u00a0a new game every week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I enjoy traveling around to various game events, exploring new communities internationally, and speaking at events<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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HISTORY<\/strong><\/p>\n

After growing up mostly in rural Pennsylvania, I moved to Boston and received my Bachelor’s Degree\u00a0in Electrical Engineering from Boston University in 2008. \u00a0Throughout my last year at Boston University, I worked on the Command and Data Handling system of the BUSAT<\/a> nano-satellite
\nwhich was part of the fifth University Nanosatellite Competition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Continuing\u00a0on with my interest in work on satellites, I spent the first few years of my professional career working for Lockheed Martin on command database and simulation software for the Geostationary Lightning\u00a0Mapper <\/a>(GLM) instrument of the GOES-R<\/a>\u00a0environmental satellite and eventually moved to AER<\/a>\u00a0where I was part of the team which implemented the ground processing algorithms of the same GLM instrument.<\/p>\n

After spending time learning the basics of game development in my spare time, I switched over to full-time game development after being offered a position as a programmer at Fire Hose Games<\/a>\u00a0as a programmer on the team that was working with Harmonix on Rock Band Blitz<\/a>. I then spent time consulting with Infrared 5<\/a>\u00a0as a programmer on projects ranging from children’s games to museum installations before moving on to full time solo independent video game work. During this time, I was also volunteering as part of the original team putting together the indie MEGABOOTH<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I spent the next year being mostly nomadic while traveling around the United States and Europe attending events, collaborating with other developers, and working on my year long Game a Week project. This project allowed me to hone my design and prototyping skills,\u00a0produced a number of interesting games<\/a>, and gave me the opportunity to speak\u00a0about game design<\/a> and development in a very personal manner.<\/p>\n

At the same time, I began organizing a game jam named Train Jam<\/a> which\u00a0takes place annually on an Amtrak train between Chicago, Illinois and San Francisco, California. Train Jam grew from 60 participants<\/a> to over 120<\/a> in just one year and has created over 70 games<\/a> total so far.<\/p>\n

I am currently working on an unannounced games project, ongoing programming freelance\u00a0work, as well as planning for next year’s Train Jam!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My name is Adriel Wallick and I am an independent video game developer based out of the Netherlands! I am the organizer of an annual game jam known as Train Jam, a game designer, and a programmer. I have worked on a number of commercial releases, have participated in numerous game jams, and once spent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"templates\/home.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-871","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/msminotaur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/msminotaur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/msminotaur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msminotaur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msminotaur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/msminotaur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":904,"href":"https:\/\/msminotaur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/871\/revisions\/904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/msminotaur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}