While I was going to school I started a few projects, which I never have finished. Here are the largest ones:<\/p>\n
Up to now I can call it the longest project I ever worked on. At the beginning I attended the eleventh grade of the german grammar school and was seventeen years old. While I was going to school I started a few projects, which I never have finished. Here are the largest ones:<\/p>\n “FutureTrain”: Because I liked the concept of “Railroad Tycoon” by Sid Meier I decided to develop a clone taking place in the future. But I stopped the project because I could not reach the quality … <\/p>\n
\nInitially the game should only use 320×200 VGA graphics with small pre-rendered images but later I advanced it to 640×480 SVGA full screen backgrounds. I also improved the visual appearance of the map from a two-dimensional top-down view with color variation for different height levels to a textured, illuminated and dithered rendering from a bird’s eye view (also called “2.5D”). The game also got an original soundtrack and special sound effects.
\nDespite all regenerations I managed to get the game finished and published to retail stores in the year 2000, when I was 21 years old. At that moment I was studying computer sciences at the University of Leipzig<\/a> but I realized that my “real” education has reached the level, which made me ready for a job. And so I discontinued my studies.
\nThe name of the product is “Space in Motion: FutureTrade” (details are coming soon). In the production time I also graduated from school and served my military service in the “Bundeswehr<\/a>“.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"