Brainfold On Python, game development and everything

About

My name is Jussi Lepistö, and I'm a Finnish professional and hobbyist game developer. I'm interested in game development, Python, user interfaces, usability, artificial intelligence and emergent behaviour among other things. I have been programming as a hobby on and off for over ten years. I started back then with Basic, moving on to C and C++ and finally Python. On the way I also learned some Visual Basic, Java, C# and Prolog. These days I'm mostly programming in C++ professionally and Python as a hobby.

In addition to programming and other computer-nerdy stuff, I spend my free time on capoeira, acrobatics, motorcycles, role playing and board games, and occasionally snowboarding in the winter.

This blog tells about my adventures in game development and related topics, with the occasional sidetrack thrown in. My current development environment is a desktop PC with Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux, and I'm thinking of also getting a modern MacBook. I'm always at least aiming for platform-independent and/or portable code in my hobby projects. For writing code, I'm primarily using Eclipse with the Pydev plugin, although for smaller scripts I just use a text editor or Idle, the official Python editor.

You can find me online:

• E-mail: at jussi.lepisto@iki.fi.
• IRC: Freenode network on the #python3d channel; my IRC nick is Knarkles.
• LinkedIn: my profile.
• Twitter: my feed.