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[anonymous_user_3fa7875b]

Hi All,

Who am I?

• Richard Boegli, formerly known on forums, IRC and twitch as (due to separate Epic boards initially):

• laernut - Unreal Tournament / Unreal Engine Forums / Twitch

• icansee - Unreal Tournament (It was my alias on IRC, a few posts on forum ) / Twitch

• Will be known as richardboegli on forums, IRC, in-game etc…

• Huge UT fan; played UT99, UT2003, UT2004, UT3 with my special edition tin case and a bit of a UE fanboy…

• Participated on forums, IRC, play tests from Jul 2014 - Oct 2014

• Combined post / thread count: 250ish

• Notable threads / posts

• Profit sharing in Marketplace

• Weekly UT pre-alpha updates - Could do it be distributed using the marketplace?

• The Epic Store - Your “one stop shop” for all your gaming needs, whether you are a developer, modder, artist and/or gamer the Epic Store has everything you need.

• Trello to replace UT4 Forum once official UT Team Trello community board is up?

• Single grenade as secondary fire on rocket launcher

• [BRAINSTORM] Trello board coordination - how to manage who does what in community?](Unreal Tournament)

• Social web presence only attributable Jan 2015 onwards

• Previously was a social media hermit

• Used numerous burner accounts and alias across the web for the last 20+ years.

• Trying to no longer to be social hermit; marketing advised I need a social presence to help promote book

Why I left

• Finish and Publish book: My Weight Loss Story 40kg in 40 Weeks Without Exercise (90lb in 9 months)

• Spent 54 days straight doing first draft; Participated in UT/UE back in 2014 as a break from writing

• Head hunted by Samsung

Training / Experience

• Classically trained as a Mechatronic Engineer (Mechanical, Electrical / Electronics, Software - ie: Robots / Automation) and Project Manager.

• Worked in a number of industries with a lot of roles / positions during my career thus far. The list is long, so here are a few relevant ones:

• Indie Game Developer

• Lead Project Engineer / Technical Coordinator

• Portfolio / Project Manager

• Author

• So I can “make things happen”, manage / coordinate, mentor, engineer, CAD and code

Why I am back

• Great Community - I really did miss it when I left

• Unreal Engine

• UE4 becoming free

• Where it is now and vision of where it is going

• Unreal Tournament amazing development pace

• I like making games

• Made / Managed (I wanted to ship, so I shipped)

• Carrot Attack

• Match Face Game

• Consulted and play tested

• TBA - I’ve been asked not to post this, until it’s launch

• Never wanted to leave, but couldn’t commit the time

What I will start doing

• Investigate and implement prototype vehicles in UT

• Contributing to Chaos Mod for UT

• Investigate and implement prototype of Mobile & Console / Cross-platform support for UT

• UT on mobile - have a quick deathmatch against some bots anytime

• UT on console - Keyboard / Mouse is ultimate control combo, so let’s show the world

• Finish and publish some games using UE

When / Period of Availability

• From now till Jan 2016 - 100% of time will be spent on Game and App development

• After that planned minimum 20-30%, might be more, but won’t be less.

Thanks for reading, glad to be back

[anonymous_user_f70d3582]

hi,

I am closing this thread as you have posted the same thing 3 times now, please refrain from doing it as spamming threads is against forum rules.

thanks