Will Hain · Engine Programmer 3, Planet Tech

I'm Will. I'm a two-dimensional character. I exist purely for Cloud Imperium Games. I went to uni down in Cardiff, where I studied game design and development. I've done programming since I was about 11. I used to use a program called DS Game Maker where you could make very, very bad games and then put them on one of those R4 ROM cards you can put in your DS with a micro SD card in. And that's my first exposure to programming. But it just kind of snowballed from there. I really wanted to do music for a long time, but I refused to do it academically because I wanted it to be organic. And then I thought, well, I need to do something that will definitely earn me money so that I can afford to do my music, and I thought I'm pretty good at programming, so I'll roll with that. I did the course in Cardiff, which was great, and I did a dissertation in planet terrain generation where I essentially made this GPU-powered planet generator based on ridges and rivers, which would then propagate out to an entire planet. Very bad it was. Anyway, I applied to a couple of jobs a couple of months before I was going to graduate. I applied here. Marco, you know Marco, he picked it up, interviewed me, really liked the stuff in the dissertation. He was like, so we're doing something similar, and just brought up New Babbage on this big screen in the interview room. And I was like, yeah, that's cool. And that's how I got here. That's who I am.