This is the portfolio site of Michael 'Zacker' Schmidt. Here you can read the story of a truely aspiring game developer.
Some years ago he got headhunted to a new promising HL mod called Sands of War to do level design. This became of great importance as he quickly advanced to lead level designer and later on took over the position as project leader.
As leader there he has managed to lead the mod through several succesful releases for both the HL engine and the Source engine. This is a really remarkable effort as 95% of all mods never get to be released. Visit the mod here: www.sandsofwar2.com.
Already at the age of 16 he was featured in both regional and national newspapers. Articles here:
Considering all these achievements in his sparetime you should believe that he is slacking in school. His grades show the opposite though, as he scores high in all subjects and has even received a 13(highest possible danish grade) as annual grade in programming.
In 2005 he was among the few to get accepted in at a summer camp called Game Development Camp for talented young game developers. Here he scored a 3rd place with his team. Next year he took it even further and won both 1st places!
The Site
The site is to a wide extend programmed using modern standards like XHTML and CSS. All image thumbnails and related code are generated by a custom script.
Thanks to Nicki Schram and Mitja Ribic for assisting with the site design and also big thanks to Peter Bøg for fixing some of the code errors.
