My name is Mika. I was born in 1985 and I am happily married to my lovely wife Annemari. I’m studying my Nth year (..slowly but steadily..) in the University of Jyväskylä (MIT degree). At the moment I’m also working part time on the LukiMat -project, mostly as a programmer.

Apart from (game) programming, my other hobbies could be defined as:

• Movies, collecting dvds (Kubrick, Scorsese, Cronenberg + all kinds of horror stuff)
• Music (melodic metal, rock, progressive stuff, piano)
• Photography, drawing, painting, graphical design (painting in its digital form)
• Computers in general (Linux, open source)
• Games (Playstation 3)

Why I started with game programming in the first place? Good question.

I began playing around with QuickBasic back in late 1996, and did a lot of horrible software (and “games”) with it. Then I went through Visual Basic to C and C++ by 1999. After that I’ve managed to finish a few projects, that (at least partly) deserve be called “games“. I’ve mostly stayed with C++, but occasionally dabbled in C#, PHP, Perl, Python and lately Java.

In any case, I’ve always been more interested in making games than playing them. And when I’m occasionally playing something, I’m always wondering: “How did they do that?” I’ve been playing a bit more after I got PS3, though..

And that’s it, I guess.