Born in October 1983, I've been living in Vienna, Austria, Europe all my life. Personality-wise, I'm a creative thinker and started developing my own computer games at elementary school age. My fascination for computer games stems from the fact that games tell stories and, in contrast to novels and movies, are interactive. Playing a game is like immersion into another world. In the course of three decades I've implemented some of my ideas and released the products as free software. I'm particularly proud of Adok's Number Maze, as it's based on a new concept I haven't seen in any existing game before. For a long time it has also been a desire of mine to create my own turn-based, tactical role-playing game in the style of my favorite video game, Shining Force 2. I've actualized this dream during my days as a university student; meanwhile five editions of the Mega Force series have been released.
I've also been into computer journalism for a long time. My first article, a review of the game Story of Thor, was published in the German SEGA Magazin when I was ten years old. Then I became a regular contributor to PC-Heimwerker, Computer Flohmarkt and several electronic magazines (diskmags). At age twelve, in 1996, I was appointed co-editor of a new diskmag, Hugi. In the following eighteen years I invested a large portion of my spare time (roughly twenty hours per week) in work on this magazine and led it to place one in various diskmag charts. In addition I've organized many programming contests. I started doing so after winning place one in a similar contest myself. The objective of my contests is to create the smallest possible executable that implements a given specification. It's amazing with what tiny solutions some participants have come up.
Other interests of mine include metaphysics, epistemology, logic, psychometrics and biochemistry. My IQ is approximately 160, placing me in the exceptionally gifted range.
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