Apaja, mostly making
games.
I'm 31 years old single male from Finland. After high school I served compulsory military service at 1996, then started studies in
University of Helsinki, Department of Computer
Science. But currently I'm Java-programmer in Apaja, mostly making
games.
I do not smoke or drink alcohol at all. I love animals, especially big cats like tigers and snow leopards. Since I also like
photographing, it isn't surprising that I spend lot of time in local zoo, photographing tigers and lions and leopards (see my
zoo photographs-page). Some people think that when someone likes cats, he doesn't like dogs (and vice versa).
Well, at least I'm not one of those, dogs are great too! :-) I have petcat, I have wrote
own page for it. That page is written in finnish but there's also some photos of my cat if you just want to see it.
I also like thinking, reading science magazines, programming (Java), Amiga, Donald Ducks by Don Rosa, Calvin & Hobbes, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, wolves and dragons.
My personal "computer-age" began at year 1985 (with Commodore 64) and my programming hobby just about a year later. After that I have used quite many computers and programming/scripting-languages. Here's most of them (bolded those which I have used a lot):
| Commodore 64: | Basic, Simons' Basic |
| Amiga 500: | Amiga Basic, Amos+Amos 3D |
| Amiga 1200: | Amos Professional (I made lots of freeware and shareware games with this, see my Amiga-page) |
| PC: | TrueBasic, Pascal, C, C++ |
| TI-85: | Basic (I even made some games with this, using TI-85's internal editor :-) |
| General: | Java, Perl, Prolog, Lisp |
| Web-related: | HTML, PHP, JavaScript |
| Others: | (My)SQL, XML (including DTD and XSL), LaTeX+BibTeX, Povray (meaning description-language of Povray's DOS-version, see my Povray-page) |
My current computer is:
Playing computer games is fun! It is a bit sad, that some genres are quite dead.
Like "old-fashion" 2D adventure games, like Monkey Island I and II, funniest adventure-games ever made. Or Quest for Glory I, II and III, QfG IV felt good also, but was full of bugs :-( Perhaps I liked Quest for Glory so much because there was so much all kind of feline animals in those games. Kattas and Liontaurs, I really liked those characters :-) And Day of the Tentacle (Maniac Mansion II) was good too, great idea to make things done in past to affect future directly.
Or simple first person role-playing games. Like Dungeon Master I and II. Especially Amiga-version of DM II was something great! (Graphics and musics were ruined in PC-version.) I just loved that dark atmosphere, intelligent creatures and those magical minions. But when talking about first person role-playing games, I can not forget Ultima Underworld I and II, best role-playing games at that time. Lands of Lore was also in my Top 10 games for a long time.
Other good games I could mention are Master of Orion I, simple and easy to learn but still so diversified that I couldn't help myself to not start new game immediately after one was finished. I guess I have played MoO I to the end more than hundred times. Lemmings II is one of the funniest problem solving game. And Star Control II is perhaps best adventure game I have ever played.
But now that kind of games seems to be history. Gamehouses only make 3D shoot-em-ups, 3D driving games, sport games or Command&Conquer-clones :-( Some good games are made occasionally, like Baldur's Gate I and II. I have both of those games, but unfortunately those are games which requires lots of time to concentrate and still, somehow they just don't have that same feeling like Dungeon Masters or Ultima Underworlds. I think that is mostly because BG is using third person view. It creates feeling that player is just some kind of outsider who tell little mans on screen what they should do. I like first person view in role-playing games much more better.
Luckily, there's still The Elder Scrolls! I played Morrowind more than a year :-) Not 24/7 of course, but a lot anyway. Best game of all Elder Scroll games. Previous part, Daggerfall, was also good ten years ago. And good is also currently newest part, Oblivion. I'm still playing it and haven't planned to stop in near future :-) These games are exactly what I want from games. Totally new life to live, game doesn't put any (or almost any) restrictions on what you can do in game. Do whatever you want and live your virtual life as you see proper.
Jippii (Saunalahti)
Pasimaailma) is one of my best achievements. (That name wasn't my idea :-) Pasiworld is
online-gaming world where people can chat and challenge other people to play games with them. Especially Minigolf and Pool were huge successes in
Pasiworld.
Apaja
) All multiplayer games are against real human opponents over Internet, playable directly
with Java-capable browsers without any extra plugins.You can send me mail using this form.
Some friends who have some sort of homepage. Approximately in order of how often I see them.
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