Introduction
Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2013 9:44 pm
Hi everybody! I stumbled across this website a few days ago while in the process of looking for some Deadlock sprites to use as placeholders in a Deadlock-inspired Android/IOS game I am designing/developing in my free time. Ever since the stumble I've spent quite a lot of time (not too much time though) lurking these forums and considering making an account on this charming website! I've never really understood the lack of love and credit given Deadlock (being one of my family and I's favorite series of games growing up) on the internet at large. It gets me really excited to see the excitement and enthusiasm this community has for the games that so few others I have met have had any exposure to or appreciation for! Anyways, I'd reckon this wouldn't be much of an introduction without much of an introduction so here goes nothing!...
My name is Chris and I am a young guy (currently a sophomore in college pursuing a degree in computational mathematics) that enjoys developing software, playing video games, playing music, and reading recreationally. I keep myself fairly busy between working full-time as a junior software engineer and systems and network technician at a cytology and anatomical pathology lab and going to school. ! My dad and my two brothers (all three characters of whom are substantially older than I) likely introduced me to Deadlock 1 around the time of my first few legitimate memories (I have more than a few early 'memories' of which I have doubts in regards to's authenticity), growing up we all spent many evenings playing Deadlock in one of it's two iterations or another. I really like the idea of getting together some seriously demonstrable content (I think many of Deadlock's mechanics would suit a cross-platform social application miraculously (which is why I am currently in the process of emulating many of them in my own design)) and a petition and sending someone at Atari a heartfelt letter in an attempt to salvage the possibility for this hidden gem to make a glorious entrance into the modern social-app saturated culture. Then again I am probably overly-excitable and overwhelmingly naïve.
I'd love to hear a little bit about some of you guys so that I may be able to better familiarize myself with you all as I'd really like to become an active member of this community!
My name is Chris and I am a young guy (currently a sophomore in college pursuing a degree in computational mathematics) that enjoys developing software, playing video games, playing music, and reading recreationally. I keep myself fairly busy between working full-time as a junior software engineer and systems and network technician at a cytology and anatomical pathology lab and going to school. ! My dad and my two brothers (all three characters of whom are substantially older than I) likely introduced me to Deadlock 1 around the time of my first few legitimate memories (I have more than a few early 'memories' of which I have doubts in regards to's authenticity), growing up we all spent many evenings playing Deadlock in one of it's two iterations or another. I really like the idea of getting together some seriously demonstrable content (I think many of Deadlock's mechanics would suit a cross-platform social application miraculously (which is why I am currently in the process of emulating many of them in my own design)) and a petition and sending someone at Atari a heartfelt letter in an attempt to salvage the possibility for this hidden gem to make a glorious entrance into the modern social-app saturated culture. Then again I am probably overly-excitable and overwhelmingly naïve.
I'd love to hear a little bit about some of you guys so that I may be able to better familiarize myself with you all as I'd really like to become an active member of this community!