Hi my name is Jared Smith, I've been working in the video game industry as a developer for roughly 7 years. One of my main driving forces ever since I started has always been to obtain a greater understanding of how video games are made. This has taken me across the broad spectrum of disciplines that video games encompass. From my beginnings as an artist, to more technical disciplines such as level design and all the way to programming gameplay and UI systems in C# and C++. I love the fact that there is always something new to learn about making video games and that it always presents challenges that yields personal rewards. Video games is a fantastic medium that pushes art and technology, which only seems to be getting better with every passing day.