Hello my nickname is zodiaq_dev or short just zodiaq. This is my personal blog about the things I experience when partaking in the wonderful world of game development.

My first coding adventure started when I was thirteen years old when I started figuring out how websites are made. I teached myself how to write HTML and later on CSS.

However playing the first computer game started my thirst for game development and everything that sorrounds it. Ever since playing computer games I asked myself how these are made and how I can make my own. Sadly, it was a lot later when I finally started getting into game development learning XNA and C#.

Prior to that I worked as a semi-professional PHP programmer at a local advertising agency starting at the age of fifteen, but I always knew I wanted to become a professional game dev working on these big AAA games.

Fast-Forward some years and I’m developing games utilizing engines such as Unity or Unreal. My career started as an internship at Prianha Bytes where I worked as an engine programmer on Risen 3. Afterward finishing my internship I got a job at encurio GmbH (the advertising agency I worked before) working on an unity game called Valnir Rok.

Together with some colleagues from university we started at encurio GmbH as indie devs and got a lot of experience. Sadly Valnir Rok wasn’t quite the commercial success everyone has hoped for, thus three of us decided to found our own company „Immersive Pixels“ to work on a mobile game called Idle Knight Legends.

I started this blog to document my further career as a programmer and write more or less daily about it. The purpose isn’t to give any tutorials on topics but insight.