Welcome

This is a homepage of Hubert Rutkowski (nickname Koshmaar), individual who specializes in computer game programming. This site is mainly an online portfolio of the  games I created  and  other remains of past work as a coder , shows the state of  current projects  plus tells something  more personal  about me :-) and my other hobbies...

...since I'm not the typical geek who spends all day in front of the computer programming, playing games and watching porn movies ;-) this homepage features page with art related stuff and  a little gallery  of my sketches, while  music section  is devoted to... music (duh), playing guitar, singing and practicing. Comparing to programming, I suck at all of them, though I'm constantly learning new things, getting better and plan to continue doing it till the end...

News

Quick update:

1. I'm organizer of KrakJam - local polish edition of Global Game Jam 2010, which is an experiment in creating innovative games in small teams in about 48h. Prepering such an event proved to be much more work than I anticipated, though things are going rather well and I hope that KrakJam will be success. Well, we're going to know pretty fast whether it were, since it starts next week in friday (29 January), so if you're game developer and wish to take part, don't hestitate to visit www.krakjam.pl

2. I'am training muay thai for 4 months already at Raczadam club and I LUVE YT!!!1 ;) Why? As a result of body conditioning, I gained endurance, practical strength, rock hard muscles, nice abs ^^ and because we're sparring at every training, I'm gradually getting better at fights. It also positively affected my mind - I'm calmer, more concentrated, and my confidence is sky high. Ladies started to take notice ;)

Btw if you liked Matrix, here's rather imaginative and well done video: The Meatrix

After about 3 weeks of mild work, hereby I declare my homepage commenting system done. It's rather flexible and secure (no, please don't try to hack it :P ), with cool admin panel and now that it's finished, I'll have time to do next thing on my todo list. Man, even though occasionaly sth gets completed and erased from it, continously I find so many new exciting things, so the damn thing is getting longer and longer every month :->

While working on the comment system, I've learned OOP in PHP, few new CSS elements, did some javascript and... found out the beautiful jquery library! I'm really amazed at the abilities of this little thing, coding style it promotes, simple yet informative documentation (rare treat), and last but not least, great looking homepage with good tutorials.

Currently I'm reading the very first Dune novel by Frank Herbert. The book is certainly different from other, more mainstream scifi stories, but also definitely captivating (but such an avid Dune2 player as me couldn't feel different), and the Dune universe is very thought and imagination provoking.

Btw, have you noticed how many great, classic sagas (not limited to books) use the element of royal family, prophecy of long awaited magic child who would become saviour/prophet, epic conflict between clans/races (from which one is clearly evil) prolonged for hundreds of years, secret assasain/women organisations, entangling of past, present and future in visions (sometimes caused by narcotics), super-humans who are able to perform incredible things/are amazingly well trained fighters etc etc. Witcher, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Dune... is it an accident??

Last thing, I was asked by my acquaintance Andrzej Pasinski to spread some news about his current project, Oozi game. The team has experience in those kinds of games, so I'd say they'll create sth playable =)