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<h2 style="text-align: center;"> BUT WHO ARE YOU?</h2>
<h5 style="text-align: center;"><i>Ostensibly not a graphic designer</i></h5>

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I am Greig, or Gurg, and this is my website.
I studied Computer Science at The University of Edinburgh, and after being dissatisfied with almost every job Ive had, Ive decided to focus on being happy rather than being
"successful". I am many things but mostly I am someone who likes video games and wants to make video games. 

I enjoy games from literally <i>all</i> gaming genres, but i mostly play: 3rd Person "find and fight" games, platformers', Non-Western RPGs and fighting games.
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"> BUT WHAT DO YOU REALLY DO?</h2>
<h5 style="text-align: center;"><i>I complain a lot, but i try to make it worthwhile</i> </h5>

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In the past I've worked as: 
An admin assistant at a law firm, 
a kitchen porter in a busy and toxic high street restaurant, 
as the only technically competent individual in a growing e-commerce startup,
and as a university tutor. My most recent job has been doing System Administration @ <a href="https://smartr.ai"> smartR.ai</a>.
This work has included an assortment of jobs ranging from: tech support, buying company hardware, containerizing and deploying essential company services and cleaning up messes.
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As previously mentioned I want to make video games.
Ive been slowly but surely developing my skills ranging from 3D modelling and modding to gameplay system and graphics programming
and gained some experience with a few SDKs and engines (Pico-8, Playdate SDK, Unity) but its hard to maintain momentum. My progress is taking time but thats 
    fine because im not in a rush.
Making a good game in my opinion means involves playing, watching, analysing and experimenting with a lot of video games. I don't play them for fun, i try to understand why im having fun.
I take time to think about why im enjoying what im doing right now, and often have more fun discussing the game then actually playing it.
To that end, I love playing crap games, my growing PS1 collection is at least 60% pure rubbish.
If it interests you, here's an  <a href="/everygameiveplayed.txt"> incomplete list of every game ive played an hour of</a>.


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   The following are a selection of my favourite video games:

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    <li><i>Sin and Punishment</i> (2000) - Nintendo 64</li>
    <li><i>Final Fantasy X</i> (2001) - Sony Playstation 2 </li>
    <li><i>Dark Souls</i> (2011) - Xbox 360/Sony Playstation 3/PC </li>
    <li><i>Dissidia 012[duodecim] Final Fantasy </i> (2011) - Sony Playstation Portable</li>
    <li><i>Death Stranding</i> (2019) - Sony Playstation 4 </li>
    <li><i>Outer Wilds</i> (2020) - PC </li>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"> BUT WHAT ARE YOU FIGHTING FORRRRR?</h2>
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As well as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=779coR-XPTw">interactive-moving-picture-contests</a> I also care about:
Sustainability,
Philosophy,
Technology. 

When im not playing games or complaining, i like to take my telescope out stargazing, when the weather is good for it.

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