I was born on the 3rd of November 1984 in
Reus city
(Catalonia,
Spain). But I have always lived in
Cambrils,
not far from
Reus
and in the same province called
Tarragona.
During my childhood I was a scout, I learnt to swim, learnt to play tennis and even pottery.
One of my first contacts with electronic games was with a
Nintendo Game & Watch with a
Panorama screen which had a Popeye game inside (model PG-92). It belonged to one of my sisters.
Later, my brother bought me a
Famiclone (Nintendo NES / Famicom clone)
with many games in its
internal memory (many only officially released in Japan). Thanks to that device, I could discover
many fascinating games as for example
Mario Bros.,
Super Mario Bros.,
Super Mario Bros. 2,
Super Mario Bros. 3,
Tetris,
Tengen's Tetris,
Ikki,
TwinBee,
Star Force,
Donkey Kong,
Donkey Kong Junior,
Donkey Kong Jr. Math,
Donkey Kong 3,
Ninja Hattori-kun,
Contra,
Bomberman,
Circus Charlie,
Urban Champion,
Yie Ar Kung-Fu,
Spartan X (Kung-Fu),
Antarctic Adventure,
Mappy,
Battle City,
Road Fighter,
Excitebike,
Duck Hunt,
Hogan's Alley,
Wild Gunman,
Binary Land,
Space Invaders,
Galaxian,
Galaga,
Xevious,
Clu Clu Land,
Super Arabian,
Front Line,
Ninja-kun,
Dig Dug,
Devil World,
Tennis,
Mach Rider,
Pac-Man,
Ms. Pac-Man,
Pinball,
Millipede,
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,
Sky Destroyer,
Lunar Pool,
Lode Runner,
B-Wings,
Formation Z,
Super Dimension Fortress Macross,
Karateka,
Baseball,
Golf,
Mighty Bomb Jack,
Ice Climber,
Ninja Crusaders,
Warpman,
BurgerTime,
Popeye,
City Connection,
Gyrodine,
Elevator Action,
1942,
Nuts & Milk,
F-1 Race,
Mahjong,
Othello,
Gomoku Narabe Renju,
Joust,
Field Combat,
Pro Wrestling,
Exerion,
Balloon Fight,
Pooyan,
Arkanoid,
Kinnikuman: Massuru Taggu Matchi (Tag Team Match: M.U.S.C.L.E.),
Brush Roller (Make Trax),
Raid on Bungeling Bay,
Wrecking Crew,
Chack'n Pop,
MagMax,
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
and many more.
My next
consoles
were a
Nintendo Game Boy (first classic model)
and a SNES (Super Nintendo Entertainment System).
After some years I also got a Super Game Boy
adapter. With those devices I could play
Tetris,
Super Mario Land,
Wario Land (Super Mario Land 3),
A Boy And his Blob: Rescue of Princess Blobette,
Super Mario World,
Super Mario All-Stars,
Super Mario Kart,
Mario Paint,
Street Fighter II,
Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind,
Spanky's Quest,
Plok,
Illusion of Time,
Aladdin,
Dragon Ball Z: La Legende Saien,
Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts,
Donkey Kong Country,
Toy Story,
The Addams Family,
King of the Monsters,
Super Adventure Island,
etc.
When I was about 9 years old, in 1994, I started learning computers in a private training centre
in
Cambrils
(my hometown). They had
Intel 80286,
80386
and
80486
(and maybe older machines). There
I learnt
typing,
how to use
MS-DOS 5.0
and create
batch files
first on paper and later using
"edlin"
which was a line editor that came with that operating system. After that, the teacher
introduced us to the
"edit" editor (MS-DOS Editor).
I was also learning
WordPerfect 5.1
under
MS-DOS
and later
Microsoft Windows 3.1
and
Microsoft Word 6.0,
Excel 5.0
and
Access 2.0.
Later, I saw
OS/2
for the first time in my life and we used
Windows 95
and learnt basic Internet
web browsing
until
about 1996. The first games I played in PC were a
snake
clone called
Caterpillar,
Xonix,
Alley Cat,
Maniac Mansion,
Day of the Tentacle,
Sam & Max Hit the Road,
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis,
Simon the Sorcerer,
Dyna Blaster (Bomberman),
Wolfenstein 3D,
Doom,
Doom II,
etc.
From about 1996 to 1999 I also studied in another training centre in
Reus city
(where I was born) and
I learnt advanced
MS-DOS 6.22
(with advanced
batch scripting),
QBasic,
Visual Basic 3.0 and 4.0
and
Borland Turbo C.
In the same centre, I also studied
HTML
from 1996 and some basic Internet skills
(web navigation,
receive and send
emails,
FTP,
IRC...).
My first computer had a
486DX4
microprocessor at 100 MHz with 8 MiB of RAM and
Microsoft Windows 95.
The hard drive had a
capacity of less than 1 GiB (around 820 MiB or so, I cannot remember).
In 1996 I started creating basic apps, games and web pages (some also used
JavaScript
code and even
Java applets)
as a hobby.
Since I discovered
emulators
in 1997, I use them from time to time to play and remember old games when I
want to disconnect and relax.
I became a
BeOS
fan as soon as I discovered it. I have also liked other operating systems as
QNX,
and I have used others as
Microsoft Windows
(3.x,
9x,
NT,
2000,
XP,
Vista,
7
and so on),
ReactOS,
FreeDOS,
MINIX,
Linux,
FreeBSD,
NetBSD,
OpenBSD,
PC-BSD,
DragonFly BSD,
NeXTSTEP,
Mac OS
(on a
Macintosh Performa 5260/120
I bought),
OS X
(on my
Macbook white),
Darwin,
OS/2,
eComStation,
RISC OS,
MenuetOS,
SkyOS,
Syllable,
AtheOS,
AROS,
AEROS,
Plan 9,
Inferno,
Solaris,
OpenSolaris,
Novell NetWare,
yellowTAB/magnussoft Zeta,
Haiku
and some more. But my favourite operating system is still
BeOS.
Maybe one day
Haiku
will be able to become a good alternative.
I started learning
PHP
and using
AJAX
(XHR)
by myself in 2004. My first
PHP
games are from 2005 (some using
JavaScript
too). I also started creating
DHTML
(HTML,
CSS
and
JavaScript)
games in 2006 as a hobby.
In 2005, I decided to go back to that academy I had been before in
Reus
and I studied
PHP
(also using
HTML,
CSS,
JavaScript,
mySQL,
ODBC,
FPDF,
PHPMailer,
GD Graphics Library,
PHP-Nuke,
etc.),
Flash
with
ActionScript
and
JavaScript.
From 2006 to 2008 I studied a "CFGS DAI (Ciclo Formativo de Grado Superior en Desarrollo de Aplicaciones
Informáticas)" which is a Software development associate degree equivalent (similar to Foundation
degree in the UK, Diploma of Higher Education in Scotland or Higher Certificate in the Republic of Ireland)
at
IES Baix Camp school
in
Reus city.
There I studied
Boolean algebra,
Electronic circuit design,
Electronic circuit simulation,
Electronic design automation,
Computer architecture,
Computer multitasking,
Operating systems,
File systems,
Network architectures,
Network topologies,
Software engineering,
Dia,
Microsoft Visio,
Microsoft Visual Basic,
UML,
(ArgoUML),
CASE (Computer-aided software engineering) tools,
Program (or project) evaluation and review technique (PERT),
Gantt charts,
Relational models,
Entity–Relationship models (ER models),
Use cases,
Conceptual models,
Data flow diagrams (DFD),
Software requirements specification (SRS),
Imperative programming,
Declarative programming,
Structured programming,
Procedural programming,
Functional programming,
Modular programming,
Object-oriented programming (OOP),
recursion,
Model–view–controller (MVC),
Shell scripting,
C,
C#
(.NET),
ADO.NET,
Java,
AWT (Abstract Window Toolkit),
Swing,
JSP,
Jakarta Struts (Apache Struts),
servlets,
JDBC (Java Database Connectivity),
ASP,
PHP 5,
Adobe ColdFusion,
Oracle PL/SQL,
mySQL,
Microsoft SQL Server 2005,
ADOdb,
XML
and many things more. Those studies also included the
CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) Exploration curriculum.
Despite the fact that I already knew some of those languages before (and
I had even developed games with them), I could learn more during that time.
In 2008 I started studying "Enginyeria Tècnica d'Informàtica de Gestió /
Ingeniería técnica en informática de gestión" (Computer Science Technical
Engineering) degree at
URV (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) university
at
Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyeria
in Sescelades campus in
Tarragona city.
There I studied
Theory of computation,
Boolean algebra,
Electronic circuit design,
Electronic circuit simulation,
Electronic design automation,
Computer architecture,
Mathematical analysis,
Algebra,
Calculus,
x86 assembly language,
C,
etc.
But I finally left because I was not enjoying it.
Apart from working for other companies and my work as a freelance developer, I was also working as a computers
teacher for elderly people from 2011 to 2013. I am also the founder and CEO of
Gearoo wholesale company since
2011.
In September 2013 I went to Hangzhou
(Zhejiang,
China)
to study Chinese and, after getting the working visa, I have been working for a Chinese company and I even developed a game for them to be used in
Weixin (aka WeChat) which is the most used instant
messaging client for mobile devices in China, made by
Tencent (the same company that also owns
QQ).
The game was a complete success with thousands of players. I was also working as a Spanish teacher as a part-time job.
In early 2016 I moved to Shenyang
(Liaoning) because I wanted to experience the
life in the Northeast of China. Finally,
I moved to Dalian Hi-Tech Zone, in
Dalian city (also in Liaoning province) where there
are many software companies. Dalian is a beautiful city (some Chinese people say it is the cleanest or one of the cleanest cities in China) where
there are different technology centers and software parks.
In early 2017 I came back again to my country, Spain.
I have experience publishing on
Github,
SourceForge,
Freshmeat / FreeCode,
Codeplex,
Google code / Project Hosting,
TuxFamily,
BeBits,
Haikuware,
Opera add-ons,
Mozilla Firefox add-ons,
Firefox Marketplace,
Chrome web store,
Nokia Store / Ovi,
Windows Phone store /
Microsoft store,
BlackBerry World,
Google Play store / Android market,
Amazon Appstore
/ Amazon Digital Services,
Samsung Apps Store / Samsung GALAXY Apps,
Opera Mobile Store,
Facebook Apps,
IndieDB (Indie DB)
/ Mod DB,
IndieCity
/ Pi Store,
SlideME,
itch.io,
Desura,
Tucows,
Softpedia,
CHIP Online,
etc.
Coding software, creating websites and developing games are not my unique hobbies. Since I am a kid I like
creating things: writing stories and poems, drawing fun things and comics (although I am an awful drawer),
creating board games, doing handicrafts, creating songs, etc. I also love nature, beach, mountain, trees, plants
and animals,
hiking,
camping,
survivalism
and
preparedness,
I enjoy
mushroom hunting
(a typical tradition where I am from),
planting and growing plants and trees,
cooking,
swimming
at the beach, watching movies (especially old ones) because I am kind of a
cinephile,
and more. Although I am not a big fan, sometimes I have also enjoyed
geocaching.
As I love animals, during my life I have had many pets and I always take good care of them. For example, I
have had
cats,
dogs,
turtles,
rabbits,
hamsters,
guinea pigs,
gerbils
and even a
degu.
During my life I have collected many things:
antiques,
coins and banknotes,
stamps,
minerals
and
stones,
different kinds of
comics
(mainly Spanish ones),
lapel pins,
stickers
and trading cards,
flashlights (torches),
folding knives,
old computers (retrocomputing),
classic consoles and games
and so on.
I still have many games and projects in my mind that I would like to do one day but I need to find the time.
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