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Pahgawk
I'm a computer graphics programmer who occasionally still makes art.

Dave Pagurek @Pahgawk

Age 28, Male

UBC

Toronto, Canada

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Life, programming, animation.

Posted by Pahgawk - January 17th, 2012


Last month, I went on an insane programming spree. I tend to do this every year in the month of December. Somehow, I have made it my tradition to make little games for my friends as gifts, which I suppose started because if I focus on nothing but programming, I can get stuff done relatively quickly and effectively, and it would probably be more meaningful than if I made a silly card or something. Anyway, I worked at about a game a week, and I finished on time. None of the games are terribly exciting, original, or long, so I didn't put them on Newgrounds, but the whole experience tends to improve my skill as a whole. Just in case you're interested, you can see the ones I am most proud of here:

http://fav.me/d4k37si "Corporate Rampage." Basically you run around an office destroying as much as possible without getting caught. I learned a lot about optimizing code to make it run efficiently, as I was dealing with more objects onscreen than I am used to.

http://fav.me/d4k3949 "Just a Head." Now, this was really fun to make, because it is motion-controlled! Plug in a webcam, adjust the calibration, and start playing. Walk around and, as objects change position based on parallax, try to make certain things connect on the screen.

...anyway, I might upload some of these to Newgrounds at some point if I decide to turn them into full-fledged games. However, I think I will focus more on making new animations. If you haven't seen it already, I made a new one recently:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
587288

To be honest, I've sort of squeezed a lot of my creativity into this, so I probably won't have anything new too soon. I'm spending my time nowadays teaching some people at my school how to animate in both Flash and, soon, Blender, so I might have some collaborations with some of them up at some point, but it won't be my usual sort of flash. It won't have any deeper meaning, and it will most likely just be a practice for the animation skills of the people I'm working with. On the other hand, it's almost exam period, which I really like. I'm not good at exams or anything, but I find that whenever I need to study, I start having all these great new animation ideas. The problem is that I usually start working on them rather than working on schoolwork, but hey, at least I'm getting SOMETHING out of it, right? ;)

Anyway, that's all for now, folks.
Have a nice day!


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Oh my!

the games are cool. Where you learned to program?

I taught myself actionscript 2 when I was in grade seven, and since, taught myself javascript, php, c++, and actionscript 3. In grade nine, the programming class at my school taught me Visual Basic, too.