About Sam A brief biography of Sam Twidale.

As a child I played games like Mario, Castlevania and Contra on a NES. By 11 I was discovering titles like Doom, Might and Magic, Wizardry on PC. I frazzled people with fire blast in RuneScape and started to learn the names of game developers.

 

At 15 I started using Cooperative Linux, saw the work that went into open source software and began to learn about programming.

 

At 18 I began studying software engineering at the University of York. Through university I met Eric Westbrook, a crossword setter. Collaborating with him, I made an accessible crossword program to enable blind and partially sighted people to solve 3D crossword puzzles.

 

Whilst playing a one-switch indie game called Wizard Battle, I decided to also make a game like it, and a few months later I released my first game – Wizard Conflict.

 

After graduating, I moved to the Isle of Wight and worked at Stainless Games, maintaining the mobile ports of the classic Carmageddon games.

 

I’m currently based in Hull where I spend my free time developing open source apps like Geometrize, and indie games like Werewolf Tycoon. In my day job I develop medical training and simulation software for cancer treatment.

1993		Acquired NES
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2000		Acquired Internet
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2006		Started Using Linux
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011		First Game Released!
2012
2013		Stainless
2014
2015		Independent Development
2016		Vertual
2017
2018
2019
2020