Gaming = Life

[JustWall]

Hello and good day,

I just recently joined the forum as I love to play, test, buy, watch, live, taste, smell everything gaming.  I stumbled upon The Long Dark a bit ago while watching a YouTube video.  Seemed very different from a lot of the other survival style games coming out so I decided to give it a whirl.  I am now hooked.  Great game.  A cool different game play and a very artistic world Hinterland has created.  I have also spent 100s of hours in Unity and love that this game was created with Unity.  As I can tell the balance of the game is being adjusted frequently, yet I love the fact that they keep the game feeling real and the threat of death is always over your head.  I reviewed the game on a Website I run here:

http://thingpile.com/index.php/categories/207-the-long-dark-game-review

As for myself, I was a touring musician for a while.  After that I got into game development and started "Attempting" to create games.  They all sucked, yet I gained a ton of experience from doing this.  I really enjoy the audio side of things.  I have created over 100 tracks of audio specifically for games and movies and such.  I love atmospheric music and love the works of Jeremy Soule.  Here is a link to a portfolio of my works:

http://www.justwallrecords.com/MarkMauerPortfolio.html

For a day job I am a bug tester and application monitor for an Online Donation Application.  I also help with the QA process.  I very much enjoy the challenge of testing and logging errors.  I think that is what finally lead me to join the forum here was to actually help test and log issues for a game I love.  It's been fun so far and look forward to upcoming releases.

If you made it this far in my overly long post --- Thanks for Reading...and thanks to Hinterland for creating The Long Dark  

Mark

[Docterrok]

Glad your here!

[Baukster77]

Hi Mark! Welcome!