When I finished my first degree in law back in 1993, I was very proud and a little bit exhausted from the long learning period. So I decided to relax by playing a new game by NovaLogic called Comanche. I started the night of January 11th and finished about three days later with only a few hours of sleep. With the new experience in my head, I decided to start computer game programming. My goal was to program a terrain engine like Comanche. My then-girlfriend—now wife—looked a little bit confused when a young, recently-graduated lawyer told her that was going to be a game programmer