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Hi, my name is Kevin. I have been in the computer industry a long time (before PC's). I got introducted to computers in college (It was either going to be computer science or electrical engineering, computers looked like more fun).

After graduating went to California to work for a entertaiment software company called Sierra On-Line. My first job was to convert code so that our adventure games would run on the Commodore 64 (does that date me). I then went to work for Creative Software. I worked on some productivity software for them.

Anyhow I ended back at Sierra On-Line doing QA, technical support and programming. Worked of a couple of the Quest for Glory games.

I parted ways with Sierra On-Line, and now working for the government (local). Most of my work involves creating Crystal Report (thus the reason I joined this forum), but I still have to do some support for Access DB's from time to time.

Frist, welcome to the forum. Good to have someone almost as old as me. LOL

I parted ways with Sierra On-Line, and now working for the government (local).

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I see you are still in the "game" business. LOL.

Welcom aboard.

Mr. B commented on similiarity between writing game code and writing government code. However, I find another similarity.

I'm a hobbyist writer. I write government documentation by day and fantasy fiction by night. No retraining required during the transitions.

Wow, that's a very interesting background. I remember the days I wanted to be a game programmer. Is it really as fun as it looks in movies?

Welcome to the forum!

It was fun, but (at least at Sierra On-Line) it was sometimes a lot of long hours and funky errors (we had our own game language) and language limitations. Sierra was nice with a deadline looming, they would supply us with sugar and sodas, sleep optional.

Did you have any hand in any of the King's Quest games or Leisure Suit Larry games? Classics!

Did QA work on LSL 3 (did a 24 hour day once) and KQ5. I did programing on KQ7. I remember doing a lot of work on the china shop. I know I did work on other areas, but that was a long time ago.