diff --git a/docs/about.md b/docs/about.md index cdebfc5..24ad77a 100644 --- a/docs/about.md +++ b/docs/about.md @@ -1,10 +1,11 @@ # About +## Me I am Chris (although you may know me as my alter-ego, Jeremiah Fieldhaven). I've been developing software since the 1980s, and at this point it's not so much something I do as something I am. As my day job has drifted inexorably -along the path to Management, I've found I really need to make time to just -write code and build things in my spare time to save my sanity. +along the path to Management, I've found I really need to make time to write +code and build things in my spare time to save my sanity. I'm currently using Unreal Engine 5 to build a 3D puzzle game called Project Shinar, a game inspired by an old Amiga game called Tower of Babel with @@ -12,5 +13,18 @@ visuals reminiscent of the neon-glowing polygons of TRON. I'm generally terrible at keeping websites updated, so we'll see how this goes... +## Contacts You can find me on [Mastodon](https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@JeremiahFieldhaven) -or I can be emailed at [chris@starforge.co.uk](mailto:chris@starforge.co.uk) \ No newline at end of file +or I can be emailed at [chris@starforge.co.uk](mailto:chris@starforge.co.uk) + +## Why "Jeremiah Fieldhaven"? +Essentially, it started off as a bit of silliness. I had been playing [Sunless Sea](https://www.failbettergames.com/games/sunless-sea) +and there was a place on my map not far from Wolfstack Docks called "Fieldhaven's Rest". +At the same time, I decided I wanted to start over in [Elite Dangerous](https://www.elitedangerous.com/) +with a new commander, so I was looking for a name. I decided it would be Very Silly +to have a spaceship commander with a Victorean-era sounding name flying around in +the 3300s world of Elite, so I set about coming up with a suitably ridiculous name. +With "Fieldhaven" in my head as a surname for this commander, I chose a likely +looking forename from a list of 1800s names. And thus [Jeremiah Fieldhaven](https://www.edsm.net/en/user/badges/id/26401/cmdr/Jeremiah+Fieldhaven) +came into existence. I connected with other Elite Dangerous players on Twitter and +Discord with the same name, and the rest is history really. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md index 41b1b6e..3bd2798 100644 --- a/docs/index.md +++ b/docs/index.md @@ -12,4 +12,4 @@ game [Project Shinar](https://jeremiahfieldhaven.itch.io/project-shinar). ## Latest updates -2025-01-19: New site \ No newline at end of file +2025-01-20: New site! \ No newline at end of file