User:Zenbitz

This is my personal page where I tell you about my motivation for working on PARPG. Furthermore there is additional information about my skills, the tasks I plan to take care of and about the person behind the nick.

Why PARPG?
I guess my first experience with post apocalypse RPGs was with a FGU game called Aftermath! in the 80s. Sometime, during the 90s I was interested in writing a GURPS supplement called "Post Apocaylpse" but I never got past ~10 pages of notes. I must have played some Wasteland at some point... I have a vague recollection of this. When FO3 came out (still never played) I found I had some time for a single-player cRPG... but didn't want to shell out $50 for FO3 and then hate it. I bought the $15 3-pack of Fallout1/2/tactics, installed it in the XP partition of my macpower book, and was hooked (that was December 2008)

What kind of experience I have to offer

 * Old timer PnP RPG and Wargamer experience
 * I started with D&D in 1980, played Runequest, GURPS, Call of Cthulu, Aftermath! and others until about 1993 when I was in Grad school in NYC.
 * Around then, I switched to detailed historical hex board games - but I barely have time to play these.
 * Self-taught programmer, trained Scientist with experience in computer simulation
 * I am a scientific software engineer/manager at Stanford for the Yeast Genome Project
 * I have a PhD in Molecular Biophysics from Columbia University; This is where I learned to program (C++, Perl)
 * Spent 3 years as a Bioinformatics Programmer using Python
 * Experience with the following development tools: Eclipse, Wiki, Unix stuff, CVS, some SVN.
 * Management and experience in working with a group
 * Native english speaker/write, with well average writing skills.
 * Mac OSx and Unix experience (although no Linux 'puter at the moment)

What I can NOT offer

 * 2d art creation skills.
 * 3d modeling skills.
 * Windows OS experience
 * The in-depth ruleset knowledge of a pen and paper RPG player.
 * Writing skills of a native speaker.

My key tasks

 * I am interested in world development, system development, programming and scripting.

Some personal remarks
I put some history in the intro, but other vitals: I am 38, live in San Francisco, have a wife and kid (4.5 years old, I teach him to play games like Settlers of Catan!). I have always loved games, and at the moment I am bitten by the post-apocalypse game design bug!

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