Well, I partially introduced myself in the SWWM GZ project thread, but I suppose it wouldn't hurt to continue the introduction here.
I'm that strange dragon people may have seen mentioned in Spooktober's credits gallery and SWWM GZ's credits.
I primarily play Unreal (1998), almost all of my knowledge in content creation in general is exclusively based around that game and that particular iteration of Unreal Engine 1. I'm relatively new to the Doom community, the last time I played anything with ZDoom/GZDoom was back in 2007. Suffice to say, I am pleasantly surprised at how active and welcoming the community is. It's nothing short of amazing what GZDoom has evolved into as a source port of a engine.
Unfortunately, most of my skills from Unreal are not easily applicable to GZDoom other than the tool I use to make music with. I am a very skilled mapper for Unreal, but that doesn't translate real well to Doom Engine. I do know how to work GIMP and I can,
sometimes design decent enough 2D UI graphics for whatever. I am not a artist though. I vaguely know my way around Blender and basic 3-D modelling but I cannot figure out how to convincingly make complex organic shapes or animation. I'm limited to designing inanimate objects.
I'm not really great at being social, years of psychological (and physical) abuse more or less makes you weary of other individuals even if you know their intentions are good.
I am also a regular of the
VOGONS forum of retro computing and getting old games working on newer systems. A few interesting source ports of Doom are discussed there as well, FastDOOM being one such project. I can also be found on
YouTube, on
Twitch, on
Steam and even
ModDB.
My methods of communication however, are quite limited. I've been making use of IRC almost exclusively. I had a very unfortunate dealing with Discord's "Trust & Safety" team when my account got caught in what I can only assume was a global mass ban during a service outage which I guess might have been some sort of attack on the service itself, a lot of innocent people got caught in the ban as well but the only correlation I noticed among the bans is they were using "BetterDiscord", as a result of both this and a disagreement over ToS I will nolonger use or trust the service ever again. And Steam's chat platform has become very unwieldy ever since Discord came into existence and Valve sought fit to try to "compete" with Discord in terms of "features", so I never am able to reliably communicate via Steam without running into memory leaks and abysmal performance.
I'm okay with being PM'd here incase anyone really needs to talk to me personally. I may, may not be receptive to requests for music or other content depending on how I'm feeling and if I'm already in the middle of something.
Finally, please do not try to convince me to use Discord.