OneEyedParrot
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 Lost 'is eye in a jar 'o pickles | |||
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| Aliases: | OEP, One Eyed Parrot Productions | ||
| Interests: | Game Dev, Programming, Cooking, Reading | ||
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OneEyedParrot is an Oldbie. He's so old, his fingers are getting frail so the best he can do is shorten his name to OEP. So that's what he uses in most cases, unless the damn web site has a minimum four-character username limit in which the case he expands the acronym.
Fan game development
From there, he was big into the game-making business, usually authoring sports games outside the typical Mario gameplay mechanic. Mario Basketball, Mario Basketball 2, and Mario Moto are some of the more well-known. His primary tool was The Games Factory.
His talents primarily center around the logical/programmatic side game development. He is neither artistically nor musically inclined, well in the composition sense. He has excellent tastes, of course. The game design skills are there, but they are largely outweighed by the skills of others.
After high school started, he started hanging out with a real bad crowd (read: cult) who would do stuff like hang out, plan to make movies and then not make them, plan to make video games and then not make them, and plan to write stories and then not write them. Then he started playing Dungeons and Dragons and World of Warcraft a lot and learned to program, living out the rest of his high school career as semi-angsty computer geek guy in a world full of dummies.
Gaming habits
OneEyedParrot is still a pretty avid gamer. Straying a bit away from the console side of things, he started playing primarily Valve-brand PC games and mods. For a good while, he was an avid player of World of Warcraft, but stopped before partaking in the Heroin that is raiding. Eventually, he caved in and bought a Nintendo DS Lite and rekindled the Nintendo feel-good wave.
