{"id":2,"date":"2010-10-14T09:31:25","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T09:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drmop.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2016-09-18T18:06:04","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T18:06:04","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.drmop.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--adsandwich--><br \/>\nWelcome to drmop.com.\u00a0Sorry but this is the most recent picture that I could find of myself:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drmop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/fred.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-841\" title=\"Mat Hopwood\" src=\"http:\/\/www.drmop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/fred-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.drmop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/fred-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/www.drmop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/fred-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/www.drmop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/fred.png 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am Mat Hopwood, web and game \/ app developer \/ programmer \/ coder (however you want to phrase it these days) extraordinaire. I will be blogging about many topics on these here pages including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Various programming languages including C#, C++, Java and possibly a few other languages<\/li>\n<li>General game &amp; web programming tools, technologies and techniques<\/li>\n<li>Unity 3D game development<\/li>\n<li>Node.js, .NET Core and other web technologies<\/li>\n<li>Various API\u2019s such as Facebook, Twitter, Marmalade (AirPlay) etc.<\/li>\n<li>Mobile development including iPhone, iPod, iPad, Windows Phone 7 (WP7), Android, Bada, Playbook etc.<\/li>\n<li>MMO development<\/li>\n<li>Marketing games and web apps<\/li>\n<li>Tools that I am working on<\/li>\n<li>Cooking (Yes I like to take my programming skills into the kitchen :))<\/li>\n<li>Computer games<\/li>\n<li>Science &amp; Science Fiction<\/li>\n<li>Other general uncategorised bits and bobs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some of my more recent projects include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mrmop\/UnityShaders\">Free Unity shaders collection<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mrmop\/UnityLeaderboards\">Node.js redis based leaderboards server and Unity client<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Tiny Bombs Boom for Android and iOS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.drmop.com\/index.php\/games\/tiny-bombs-boom\/\">Tiny Bombs Boom<\/a> &#8211; A match-3 bomb disposal game with 10 mini-games to unlock, for Android and iOS<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Rage Quit Racer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.drmop.com\/index.php\/games\/rage-quit-race-free-insane-multiplayer-racer-for-android-and-ios\/\">Rage Quit Racer<\/a> &#8211; High speed fall down various sci-fi themed 3D tunnels, supports 2 player multiplayer and ReplyKit, for Android and iOS<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/booty5.com\">Booty5 Game Maker and Animation Studio Editor<\/a> &#8211; Game editor that enables rapid production and testong of desktop and mobile games and Flash style animations. A full e-book and API reference are also available.<\/li>\n<li>Goji Editor &#8211; Game and app editor that exports AppEasy, Marmalade Quick, XML, JSON and soon Corona, GiderOS and HTML 5<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mrmop\/AppEasyCoreSDK\">AppEasy Core SDK<\/a> &#8211; Free open source (MIT license) game and app engine for mobile and desktop. AppEasy Core is a replacement for the old IwGame Engine.<\/li>\n<li>IwGame Engine &#8211; Free open source game engine for iPhone, iPad, Android, Samsung Bada, Blackberry Playbook (BBX), Symbian, Windows Mobile, WebOS, Mobile Linux, LG-TV, Windows and Mac OS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drmop.com\/index.php\/iwgame-engine\/\">IwGame Engine<\/a><\/li>\n<li>IwGame Ads Engine &#8211; Free open source unified ad engine for iPhone, iPad, Android, Samsung Bada, Blackberry Playbook (BBX), Symbian, Windows Mobile, WebOS, Mobile Linux, LG-TV, Windows and Mac OS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drmop.com\/index.php\/iwgameads-sdk\/\">IwGameAds Engine<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Funky Cam 3D &#8211; An app that converts 2D live camera stream into 3D for iPhone, iPad, Android and Bada platforms<\/li>\n<li>Sharetops is an extensible socially aware virtual web desktop system that allows users to organise and share web content in real time, writting using ASP.NET and Silverlight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am currently a freelance programmer, mostly in the game development field. In my spare time I create games that are fun to create and sometimes fun to play :).<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to hire me to work on one of your projects then drop me a line at orc44 at hotmail dot com. I have worked on no less than 40 games throughout my career across many platforms including Sega Megadrive, PC, Playstation, mobile, web and all Nintendo platforms.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m always open to building new connections:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/drmopgamedev\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PocketeersLtd\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"LinkedIn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mathopwood\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Google+\" href=\"http:\/\/plus.google.com\/104844371670163560673\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Google+<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to drmop.com.\u00a0Sorry but this is the most recent picture that I could find of myself: I am Mat Hopwood, web and game \/ app developer \/ programmer \/ coder (however you want to phrase it these days) extraordinaire. I will be blogging about many topics on these here pages including: Various programming languages including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drmop.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drmop.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drmop.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drmop.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drmop.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/www.drmop.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.drmop.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drmop.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}