Damn I feel like I just found my paradise! :D
Hello everyone folks, this is Riccardo, 26, from Italy, and as many of you here I guess, I am an Indie Programmer and a wannabe AAA programmer! When I was 2 years old I couldn't sleep without my father in the room, and just to keep me company, he moved his old Amiga to my room. He thought he'd move us closer, which it did, but it also moved me closer to that fantastic machine with noisy floppy drives and lights everywhere! Since then, I've always been an addicted, I have played as semi-pro on ESL (CoD4) and some other flight simulators competitions around Italy, and while I was not practicing, I was giving my soul to Ultima Online, the only MMORPG I've ever enjoyed.
When I started my higher education, I decided to went straight for something I could one day use to make videogames, and i studied Digital Humanities. I just recently graduated with a dissertation about procedural building creation in Unity Editor, and I am now applying for a job all over the world. Meanwhile, I am also trying to enrich my portfolio by building some small games. So far i didn't publish anything, which is the reason why I joined the forum. I want to have a small corner, like a virtual garage, where I can build my stuff and show them to people who understand how struggling it is, I got really frustrated when I showed my dissertation to my parents, over 6.000 lines of optimized wonderful code and just a "it's nice" in return. I have also joined other forums recently, but I've had the impression that they are just built to self-promote stuff, and it's not what I am looking for. Just by looking at the forum version here I feel like home, the old fashioned bulletin boards and emoji, no fast reply, simple graphics, I do really love how this place appears, and I hope I will soon be able to join most of the discussions :D
Beside the programming part, in my free time I also play medieval sword fighting (also known as HMB). Basically, i dress up like an old medieval knight, with full armor and plate, and I start hitting people with axes :D I am almost 2m (6.6") tall, and definitely not a lightweight, which makes it even funnier! I also love to travel, I've spent one year living in London and one living in Taipei, and I am currently preparing my next adventure, the Mongol Rally!

It should be all, for now!
