Hey there! My name is Marc André Ueberall and this is the quiet corner of the internet I call my own.
I’ve studied mathematics and computer science with focus on artificial intelligence. (Edit: It’s 2024 and currently it’s a tricky time to say “Yeah, I’m working on AI” but rest assured that I don’t do ChatGPT and stuff … I’m developing AIs with tactics and strategies for destructive purposes to eradicate humankind … i.e. computer games) I specialized on spartial awareness and tactical decision making of autonomous agents (groups/individuals) in virtual surroundings. Fun thing is: all the shenanigans can be ported to the real world just by replacing the virtual sensors with actual sensors … ask my little Raspberry PI tank bot about that! I’m a passionate programmer, game developer, gamer, golfer, racer, pertrolhead, wine and whisky aficionado and all in all quite a nice person.
I started programming in the early 80s on the Commodore 264 series, better known as the Commodore 16/116/+4. At the age of 6 or 7 I learned the basics from type-in game magazines and got in contact with the art of debugging the hard way because those games rarely worked on the first try and typos in the magazines were absolutely common.
Several years later I got my hands on a Commodore 64 before I finally switched to the Commodore Amiga 500 and started coding in GFA Basic, C/C++ and m68k assembler for the Motorola 68000 CISC microprocessor. My interest in graphic programming culminated in joining the Amiga demoscene in the early 90s.
I’m fluent in C++, C#, Java, Python, Lua, Javascript, Node.js, Pascal, 68k Assembler and the good old Commodore Basic (ok, it’s licensed Microsoft Basic actually).
I’ve written a number of articles and postmortems for the German game development magazine Making Games inluding a series about XNA and automated shader integration. To have been featured in the “Games Atlas Ruhr” (the game development guide for the Ruhr Area) was quite an honour. Also, some German newspapers thought that I’m important enough to write about me … ha! You should have known better!
I’m a sucker for everything science, especially history, archaeology and astronomy. When it comes to history, the Crusades and the Renaissance are my absolute passion. In addition to the past I like stuff from outer space, too. I would love to do a more or less complete Messier Marathon with my Meade LX90-ACF 12″ telescope in the not so distant future. Been there, done that … 2025!
Music-wise I’m sort of a weird example: I’ve got a classical musical education with a deep passion for baroque composers like Johann Adolf Hasse, Georg Phillipp Telemann, Francesco Venturini or Georg Friedrich Händel sung by countertenors like Philippe Jaroussky and Jakub Józef Orliński … and I’m a metalhead listening to Black Metal exclusively since 1990. Ambient music is a huge part of my musical upbringing, too. You can find the stuff I do in my sparetime on bandcamp btw.
I spent the last 35+ years of my life hitting a little white ball in a silly game called golf … some people say that I’m quite good at it. I successfully participated in national championships as both, player and team captain. Each second fall I fanatically hoist the European flags when it is time for the Ryder and Solheim Cup.
Moving cars around quickly is my other passion, in virtual reality and real life. Four wheels and a flat-six mid-engine from Zuffenhausen (i.e. Born in Flacht) are my definition of heaven, but since 2020 I’m also all in for aviation and backcountry flying.
I started playing pen & paper roleplaying games in the mid 80’s with Das Schwarze Auge (The Dark Eye) and Dungeons & Dragons. Dismissed both and ended up playing Call of Cthulhu, HârnMaster, Mythras, Symbaroum, Traveller, Cyberpunk RED, Cypher System, The One Ring 2e and Savage Worlds. Lately I lost my heart to the Mythic Gamemaster Emulator 2nd Edition which allows me to play any roleplaying game solo … just in case that my better half is currently not in the mood for a special genre or system. Contrary to my very ditigal preferences for strategy and tactical games, I love playing historical miniature wargames, consims and play-by-mail session in the International Kriegspiel Society.
Oh, btw: this is a personal website, don’t expect much work related stuff here.
