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I'm currently an undergraduate student at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. I am in my third year at the university.
My primary focus is computer graphics and game development. My interest in game programming was sparked after playing Command and Conquer: Red Alert for the first time. Soon after that, I bought Age of Empires and at that point, my decision to make games when I grew up became final.

Previous Works

This is a version of Conway's Game of Life I made during freshman year of college. It's not the best version out there, but quite a few hours have been spent on that page playing around.
This is a "town" my friend and I made for a graphics course at school. A readme is included explaining controls and a few other things. It needs a computer that can work with shaders, as well as OpenGL. It makes use of FLTK, and screenshots are provided below. .NET may be required as well.
I made a nifty little patch for NetHack that gave the Ranger class the ability to #chat with animals, giving the possibility of Taming them.
I also made some patches for a Nethack variant called Slash'em that gave the Wizard class the ability to summon their pets, as well as give the Dark Elves a spider as their starting pet. Unfortunately, the patch has been misplaced.

Pictures of previous works

Radar dish at night.
Side view of town.
Bump mapping! Technically, the texture that is bumpmapped should be what does the bumpmapping, but I found it too cool not to use as a texture.
Particles, billboarded Gorillas, and a UFO.

Books I'm reading

The Art of Computer Programming
Real-Time Rendering, by Haines, Hoffeman, and Akenine-Moller

Code Samples

Things I'm a part of

I'm currently a member of the Undergraduate Projects Lab.

Games I Enjoy

The Halo series, the Age of Empires series, the Command & Conquer series, Rise of Nations, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, the Thief series, Nethack, The Elder Scrolls series, Sins of a Solar Empire, Deus Ex...