[Hackerz-developer] Hello All!

[Steffen G. <gra...@ma...>]

Ok, so saying a little something about ourselves isn't a bad idea. My name is Steffen, and I'm a Master's Student in computer science preparing to graduate. I didn't start programming until about 7 years ago, but I've been a computer guy all my life. 

Java is my primary language, but I have some experience in numerous others including ObjC, Ruby/Rails, Perl, Prolog, Lisp, Pascal, Bash, PL/SQL -Oracle-, PHP, Cold Fusion, XML, WML, SOAP, AJAX/JavaScript, etc...

Hackerz has been an idea of mine since middle school but I lacked the programming skill and motivation until recently. If some of the existing code looks hacked and unplanned... It is. I wrote the first 4 releases of this game during an incredibly boring cryptography class I'm in this semester.

Now that people are actually interested in this (big surprise to me), I am forced to treat it like an actual software dev project, and not just a quick and dirty bit of fun to cure boredom. Please be patient with me as we go through the growing pains of re-writing some existing code to make it more flexible. 

All that being said, I have a particular vision for this game which you may or may not agree with. I would love to get your input on design directions, and I am pretty open minded to new ideas, but I would appreciate talking with you guys first before you decide to implement some wiz-bang nuts new feature. I want to be careful to stick to my vision and not get too side tracked, since many projects die in the water from trying to incorporate the kitchen sink along with everything else. 

You guys have been doing great work so far and have really kept me motivated, I look forward to checking things off the to-do list and watching this game come together.