I'm going to give a sentimental answer instead of a fully accurate one. This also came up during the livestream, so it's a great question!
When I was a five or six years old kid I used to program on our home computer, a Philips P2000. Monochrome green on black CRT, Zilog Z80 CPU, different ROMs for running BASIC or Pascal or whatever you hacked onto it. My very first program drew Christmas trees on screen. Very appropriate to share this story right now. I immediately showed my mom, who wasn't really impressed, because she didn't understand what I had done. I had told my computer what to do—wow!
Then one day I was walking around the schoolyard imagining the world around me being digitized and available as large, 3D blocks inside my computer. "My" P2000 wasn't advanced enough to pull it off and similarly I wasn't advanced enough to program something like that. But the idea of having a coarse, 3D replica of my world and being able to have fun in there with my school buddies always stuck with me.
Many years later, at an intellectual dead-end in my job I took a month-long vacation to regain focus on my life and myself. And I suddenly remembered my childhood dream, or fantasy, of that 3D world. And I realized that computers were now advanced enough and I was advanced enough. So I decided to take on the journey, channelling my inner five-year old.
Some players have joked about this with me. That they're actually investing their time in the figments of a five year old's imagination. And that's not far from the truth. Even though Angeldust is better, more beautiful and more professional that I had ever imagined, it is the actual implementation of my childhood dream.
So the answer to your question is that I started development somewhere between being five years old and now. Hopefully this answer still gives you some joy and insight!
When I was a five or six years old kid I used to program on our home computer, a Philips P2000. Monochrome green on black CRT, Zilog Z80 CPU, different ROMs for running BASIC or Pascal or whatever you hacked onto it. My very first program drew Christmas trees on screen. Very appropriate to share this story right now. I immediately showed my mom, who wasn't really impressed, because she didn't understand what I had done. I had told my computer what to do—wow!
Then one day I was walking around the schoolyard imagining the world around me being digitized and available as large, 3D blocks inside my computer. "My" P2000 wasn't advanced enough to pull it off and similarly I wasn't advanced enough to program something like that. But the idea of having a coarse, 3D replica of my world and being able to have fun in there with my school buddies always stuck with me.
Many years later, at an intellectual dead-end in my job I took a month-long vacation to regain focus on my life and myself. And I suddenly remembered my childhood dream, or fantasy, of that 3D world. And I realized that computers were now advanced enough and I was advanced enough. So I decided to take on the journey, channelling my inner five-year old.
Some players have joked about this with me. That they're actually investing their time in the figments of a five year old's imagination. And that's not far from the truth. Even though Angeldust is better, more beautiful and more professional that I had ever imagined, it is the actual implementation of my childhood dream.
So the answer to your question is that I started development somewhere between being five years old and now. Hopefully this answer still gives you some joy and insight!