Markus Persson said that “at first he didn’t want to create games for a living until he was 14 or 15.”(guru.bafta.org) Markus has made millions on his game and probably would have never thought to begin with that he could make money off of programming games and be so good at it. During this time their parents divorced and this hit the family very hard; his sister started using drugs and becoming depressed, so in order to ignore the problems in his family, he turned to his games for a moment of peace and solitude. (Daniel Goldberg and Linus Larsson, 33) Even after all this chaos, Markus changed the way the world looks at and make indie games.
Markus was born on June 1, 1979 in Stockholm, Sweden. (Redwood.colorado.edu) One day while Markus was playing with Legos, Markus’ father, Birger, brought in a strange box with a fragile sign on it. Inside was the Commodore 128, the upgraded version of the commodore 64 which would be his first computer. (Daniel Goldberg and Linus Larsson, 29) Markus made his first small text adventure game when he was eight using the commodore 128. (Celebrity net worth.com) Markus never would have expected how successful he would become to this day. Markus started becoming more obsessed, every day Rivita, Markus’ mother, would try to get him out of the house. She thought “he should get out more and play soccer like the other kids.” (Daniel Goldberg and Linus Larsson, 31) One day he got offered a job at Midasplayer, also known as king.com, which is a big
I would love too go to Xavier High School’s HAP Program! I heard everyone is nice there and the faculty is great. The education is awesome and people are successful when they graduate. I would love to be part of that!
Edmund was challenged with creating a game that was, well, challenging for fans. He decided to recreate his classic, Super Meat Boy, for mobile phones, which is an intensely challenging game. He found this solution by recreating a game that was challenging enough, but that also properly rewarded the players, unlike the majority of mobile games (Rose, 2012). As a gamer and a student of the gaming industry I feel blessed to have learned this lesson before working on my own games. I now know that you need to research what games exist in the area you are creating in, not only so another game isn’t copied, but to ensure that the game being created does justice to the people playing the games. I discovered through Edmund’s success that I don’t have to create a game that only exists to make money infinitely, but a onetime cost of a worthy game is just
Sergeant Leigh Ann Hester and nine other soldiers were trailing a military convoy in 2005 when about 50 Iraqi insurgents launched an ambush. Braving machine gun fire and rocket-propelled grenades, Hester, along with her squad leader, successfully flanked and cleared two enemy trenches, killing three of the attackers. For her actions, Hester was awarded the Silver Star--the first female soldier so honored since World War II. (“The Amazon Edge”)
Steve Wozniak was born on August 11, 1950 in San Jose California. His parents are Margaret Louise Wozniak and Francis Jacob Wozniak. As a child he loved technology and playing with it. In Elementary school, High school, and Middle school Wozniak loved making science fair projects. Steve Wozniak had a very good childhood.
Markus Persson was born on June 1, 1979 In Stockholm, Sweden. He grew up in Edsbyn, Sweden. He loved Lego and was surrounded by a forest while he was growing up. Little did he know it would influence him to make something grand. He started to program at age 7 on his dad’s Commodore 128. He would pretend to be sick to stay home from school just to work on his coding all day. He started with simple block coding, but eventually got more complex. By age 8, he already had published his first game. The game was a text
Elon Musk is constantly trying to change the world from creating lightning speed transactions over Paypal to electric cars from Tesla and even space travel with Space X. Free enterprise has let him make his own economic choices and financial decisions to create his companies. He has overcome many obstacles and economic struggles. He was able to come up with a way to change the way people made money transactions. People saw what his company changed and they used it.
Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California. Steve Jobs showed an early interest in electronics and was mentored by a neighbor, who was an electronic hobbyist. In only the eighth grade, Steve was assembling a frequency counter and noticed that he was missing a crucial part. He then gave William Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, a call to let him know about this missing part. Mr. Hewlett sent Jobs the missing parts and then offered Steve Jobs a summer intern job. Jobs met his future partner, Mr. Wozniak, while attending Homestead High School. He
Turing was born in Maida Vale, London on 23 June 1912. His father was part of a family of merchants from Scotland, and his mother was the daughter of an engineer.At a young age, he displayed signs of particularly high intelligence.
Steve Wozniak had a very normal childhood and that started on August 11, 1950 in San Jose, California. Steve at a young age was fascinated with electronics. When he got a little bit older he was able to make electronics from scratch, this allowed him to be able to succeed in the future. Steve’s parents were Jerry Wozniak and Margaret Kern. Later in his life he got his wife who is Janet Hill.
Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington. Gates began to show interest in computers at the age of 13 at the Lakeside Private School. He pursued his passion thought college. Going out on his own with his friend and business partner Paul Allen, Gates found himself at the right place at the right time. While technology was advancing, he built the world’s largest software business, Microsoft. While doing so… he became the world’s richest man.
When working under a big name game company such as EA or Bethesda, designers are put under pressure of generating the next big name title for them, the next iteration of Elder Scrolls, FIFA 16, or add-on downloadable content instead of new, more original works. With the kind of pressure imposed with the long work hours and lower wages common in creative fields of work, subtracting, or at least restricting the actual creative output that makes the job of a game developer so desirable ultimately leads to a situation of precarious and unfulfilling
Stephen William Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 in Oxford, England to Frank and Isobel Hawking. His birthdate is also in coordination of the 300th anniversary of the death of Galileo. Hawking also had three other brothers; sister. When he was eight, his family moved to St. Albans a town north
Elon Musk was born on November 7, 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa. His father, Errol Musk, was an engineer and his mother was a nutritionist. From early on in his life, Musk displayed a strong interest in business and technology. At age twelve, Musk coded a video game called “Blastar”, which he later sold to a gaming magazine for $500. Instead of spending the money right away, he invested the money on a pharmaceutical company stock (Erik 2). When Musk turned 17, he moved to Canada to attend Queen’s University with the money he
Steve Jobs was born in February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, California. Jobs was adopted in February 1955 by Paul and Clara Jobs, who were tolerant parents. Jobs went to Monta Loma Elementary School, Cupertino Junior High School, Homestead High School, and Reed College. They were so focused on their son 's necessities that they even moved from Mountain View, California, to Los Altos, California, in 1968, to put Jobs in a new school because he said that he could not get along with the kids at his old school. He preferred to spend his time with older students rather than ones his own
Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, CA. He was put up for adoption at a young age, and was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs under the condition he attend college(Editors, Biography). Jobs grew up with his now father experimenting with electronics in their garage. Always fascinated by electronics, Steve later meets Steve Wozniak. The two become friends as they discuss how they pranked people with the use of electronics (Moisescot, Romain). Around this time in life Jobs attends College, but he only attends classes that interest him. With little money, Steve Jobs drops out of college only six months after enrollment (Editors, Biography). Trying to find a path in his life Jobs embarked on a journey to India to seek enlightenment (Deja). After returning, Jobs runs into Steve Wozniak and they talk about a computer board Steve Wozniak designed. Jobs being an entrepreneur convince Wozniak they should sell these computer boards. With