User:Eleazzaar

My real name is J. W. Bjerk. I'm in my 30s and live in Illinois, USA.

On the internet i go by the name of "eleazzaar", "eleazar" or "jwbjerk"

I've always been interested in game design, but at first they were always things of paper and cardboard that no-one ever played and usually didn't get finished. Then, I discovered FOSS games about 5 years ago through Battle for Wesnoth, and contributed a heavily over the next few years. Since then i've also contributed to about a dozen projects to varying degrees.

Most notably:
 * Battle for Wesnoth
 * FreeCiv
 * Hero of Alacrost
 * UFO:AI
 * SilverTreeRPG

I continue to contribute to the FreeOrion project, in a lot of areas.

I've been significantly involved in these areas:
 * 2D graphic creation
 * GUI / user interface
 * Game mechanics
 * Backstory / Gameworld Design
 * and also tinkered around with everything else except coding and music.

In real life i generally work as a graphic designer with a dash of illustrator. Photoshop is my weapon of choice. A not-very-well maintained gallery of some of my non-game work is here