Justin Herman

I was born in Portland, Indiana. Never really left Indiana too much so I'm pretty much a pure hoosier straight down to my bones. As I grew up I started to get fascinated by video games, seeing them in commercials, walking into electronic stores just peering up at those huge signs showing the characters standing in full glory ready to kick ass and chew bubble gum.

My first time playing a video game was at my grandma's house with my cousin's sitting down indian style with a controller in our hands, we began playing Super Mario and Super Mario Kart on the Nes. The first console and game I had was a Nintendo 64 with Super Mario 64.

As I got older I indulged into all sorts of games on alot of different platforms, when I had went to a second hand store I had found a CD Case and it read "UnrealGold" I peered at the back reading some of the story it started to make me anxious to plop in the CD and play it. When I got home and installed it I noticed a program saying UnrealEd, but I brushed it off and started to play the game.

After a while out of curiousity I clicked on the UnrealEd program, Noticing all the buttons and not understanding what anything would do, I was quite intimidated. As I got into the motion of things I started to understand how much of a slow learner I was. Finnally working out some of the controls and buttons I made my first walkable floor, It was exciting for me. But the euphoria would not last for much longer, slowly but surely I was bored and tired of it, Given I was about 11 when I tinkered with it. As I matured and started to understand what it meant to be a game developer I went on an adventure diving into different game engines. Unity, torque 3D, and UDK were some of the more interesting ones I had tinkered with, I enjoyed Unity with its ease of texturing and its drag and drop ability, but I wasn't a programmer and some of the visual programming out there didn't suit me so I moved on. Finding myself in awe of the ease with terrain detailing in Torque 3D and just the beauty it had, as I started to learn more about it I finnally found myself trying to learn the prgramming behind it and to no luck I never caught on. So I ventured forth finding the engine I played with when I was younger, It seemed to me I wasn't the only thing to mature, I installed UDK and started to learn more about it, as I went further in I discovered the visual programming and was instantly hooked causing my dream to be born.