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Derek Smart
Derek Smart. the oldest living #indiedev fossil. was indie before it was a thing. science & sci-fi aficionado, gamer, writer, entrepreneur
Derek Smart's Bio:
Derek Smart has been designing and developing video games since the early eighties. After getting a publishing offer for his first game, he decided to go mainstream and do it full time. Almost twenty years, one false start, three IPs and over a dozen games later, he is still doing what he loves the most.
Derek Smart's Experience:
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President at Quest Online
February 2010 - PresentInvestor and president of Quest Online, LLC, the developers of the F2P game, Alganon, a large scale fantasy MMO. http://www.alganon.com
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President / Lead Developer at 3000AD Inc
February 1989 - PresentOwner, lead developer, designer and Chief Technical Officer for all the games developed at 3000AD, Inc. I have designed, developed and published over fourteen games across several IPs that I own. My forte is in all-encompassing high end niche space and planetary combat games; a sector that has been overlooked for many years and which has proven to be exceptionally profitable for my company and career.
Derek Smart's Education:
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L.I.T
1990 – 1994Computer ScienceConcentration: Artificial IntelligenceActivities: Specialties in Artificial Intelligence, neural networks, pattern recognition & knowledge based modeling, probability modeling and graphics. Wrote an entire AI programming language, AILOG, based on a neural network and which was to later power my first game.
Derek Smart's Interests & Activities:
videogames, gaming, games, software development, application development, reading, writing, social networking, academia, artificial intelligence, comics, robotics, world affairs
