# Dickson.md

Hi, welcome to my personal site. You are reading this markdown document because I am rebuilding the whole site from scratch. Well, after I finished, I will probably keep this as a text-only alternative of my site.

## Content

1. Dickson's Games 2. Dickson's Projects 3. About Dickson 4. Contacts 5. Credits for this page

## Dickson's Games

Dickson has been making minigames since 2005. Here are some of the notable ones: 0. Bouncing Bear (2005, first computer game, `action`, `side scroller`) 1. 3cube (2006, `side scroller`) 2. Rebellion: Rising (2007-2011, `real time strategy`) 3. See Hear (GGJ group project, `3D`, `co-op`, `audio`) 4. Snake (2012, Nokia game remake in gamemaker, `minigame`) 5. Typhoon Tycoon (CityU group project, `Tower Defense`, `HTML5`, github) 6. Cafe Carnage (GGJ group project, `party game`, `board game`) 7. a 3D mobile game (Work in progress, `Derivative work`)

## Dickson's Projects

Dickson also steals his own time doing the following fun projects: 1. CityU Mobile (CityU OCIO Student Helper, `mobile app`, Android, iOS) 2. Sheeeep (counting sheep, `HTML5`) 3. SheeeepLW (2013, Sheeeep on your desktop, `Android live-wallpaper`) 3. Parallax Clouds (recreating IBM's recruitment CD's layout, `HTML5`) 4. Ludo (CityU group assignment, `HTML5`, sorrrrt of failed) 5. keepContent (`JS extension`, injects a content page for Google Keep) 6. WebCal (U of Kent assignment, `ajax`, github)

## About Dickson

Dickson `Chui, Hin Wah` is a daydreamer. He sees things in a different way. He is enthusiastic in game development. He likes perfection. He is lazy.

### Dickson uses:

#### 3D game stacks:

- Git - Unity3D / C# - Maya (amateur) - Adobe Illustrator

#### 2D game stack 1 (web app):

- Git - HTML5 / Canvas - JavaScript - vanila - jQuery - prototypical OOP - js-signals - nodejs (amateur) - Gulp - Atom.io - Adobe Illustrator - Paint.Net - (Picking up MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, NodeJS (MEAN) stack later)

#### 2D game stack 2 (Before 2013, windows only):

- GameMaker 8.1 - Paint.Net - SketchUp

#### Non-game:

- ActionScript 3.0 - Swiz Framework - Apache Flex - UI programming - Software Engineering / Design Patterns - PHP - CodeIgniter (amateur) - C++, Java (amateur) - Algorithms

### Dickson's favourite games top 10:

1. Portal 1, 2 2. Starcraft 2 3. Rockman Zero 3 > 1 > 4 > 2 4. Tomb Raider Chronicles, Legend, Anniversary, Underworld (not the 2013 one. It loses me all the fun being stuck in puzzles) 5. Red alert 2 Yuri's Revenge 6. CnC2 tiberian sun 7. Spybot: The Nightfall Incident 8. Dark Souls 1, 2 9. Seventh Sky (nextFrame) 10. 東方妖々夢 〜 Perfect Cherry Blossom

## Contacts

GitHub: http://www.github.com/vicksonzero LinkedIn: https://hk.linkedin.com/pub/dickson-chui/4b/899/741

## Credits for this page

Monokai color scheme by Wimer Hazenberg