Joachim

Hi!

I've written about games since I was hired by Norwegian games website Gamer.no in the early 2000s. These days, I run Spillhistorie.no, a website dedicated to not only the history of video games, but modern indie and niche games as well.

Making games myself has been a dream ever since I got my first computer – a Sharp MZ-80A microcomputer from Japan that was somewhat popular in parts of Europe as well (it was followed by the MZ-700, which was quite successful until the Commodore 64 took over). 

While I have dabbled with programming over the years, on the Commodore 64, the Amiga and even the PC, it was when I got the chance to buy a Sharp MZ again, that I truly got hooked. It started with a mystery: How to print a simple UFO character on the screen. But one thing lead to another, and suddenly I was making games.

Lately, I've mainly been working with Gamemaker Studio on the PC. I am working on modern versions of both Numbertron and Minesnake.