I think it was about 1996 or so when I got into programming. I had good ol' Dos and Win 3.1! ;3 So yeah, I programmed in Dos with QBasic, and rather badly I might add.
I was home schooled, so I spent pretty much all my time at the house. I didn't really like to read, so I spent most of my time gaming, playing Chip's Challenge some, but mostly old Dos games, like Raptor, Zone 66, Jazz Jackrabbit, Commander Keen, Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, Crystal Caves, etc. I loved games and I had a wild imagination, so I'd often daydream about making my own crazy-awesome games. Then, one fateful day, my brother introduced me to the basics of programming in QBasic. So I made some.. uhh, stuff/crap. You couldn't really call them games cuz they were super lame and I coded everything soooo badly.
Anyway, after a PC upgrade and a score on free 56k dial-up internet, I found what was known as Game Maker 1.0. Yes, that's right, I was there in the beginning. GM used to have a blue ball icon back in the day. Anyway, I started making some more crappy "games" with that and increased my skill as new Game Maker's came up. I always liked it when my friends played my games and were impressed. This makes me laugh now btw, cuz my games sucked so bad, lawlz! Nevertheless, it did encourage me, and I got better because of that. I made a few mediocre games under the name of "MDS Games", though that name has since been discontinued.
Somewhere in that time, I went to a friends house and discovered Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I LOVED IT. It was the most epic adventury game I ever played at the time. Shortly after playing that, I found Zelda Classic, which introduced me to the first Zelda. I know, sad that I never played the original Zelda on an actual Nintendo (until years later, that is). I made a couple full-length quests with ZC, but I eventually got bored of it because it didn't give me enough options. Then I tried a bit with old versions of GM, but I barely got passed planning before it fell apart, so I kinda lost interest in programming Zelda's and I continued making little snack-sized games that were just so-so.
To keep this short-ish (...too late?
): My bro got a N64 and OoT and I played it ALL THE TIME. That did it; I got Zelda fever, so I started looking around for Zelda fan games, just to see if there were any good ones out there, but I was sad to see that there really weren't too many. However, I did stumble across this website and these forums in my searches and, after a bit of lurking, I decided to join because I really wanted to try and make a fun Zelda of my own and I saw this place as an opportunity for that. So that's how it started, with a little imagination and a desire to create something fun out of something I greatly enjoy, that is Zelda.
