About

Me

I am Chris (although you may know me as my alter-ego, Jeremiah Fieldhaven). I've been developing software since the 1980s, and at this point it's not so much something I do as something I am. As my day job has drifted inexorably along the path to Management, I've found I really need to make time to write code and build things in my spare time to save my sanity.

I'm currently using Unreal Engine 5 to build a 3D puzzle game called Project Shinar, a game inspired by an old Amiga game called Tower of Babel with visuals reminiscent of the neon-glowing polygons of TRON.

I'm generally terrible at keeping websites updated, so we'll see how this goes...

Contacts

You can find me on Mastodon or I can be emailed at chris@starforge.co.uk

Why "Jeremiah Fieldhaven"?

Essentially, it started off as a bit of silliness. I had been playing Sunless Sea and there was a place on my map not far from Wolfstack Docks called "Fieldhaven's Rest". At the same time, I decided I wanted to start over in Elite Dangerous with a new commander, so I was looking for a name. I decided it would be Very Silly to have a spaceship commander with a Victorean-era sounding name flying around in the 3300s world of Elite, so I set about coming up with a suitably ridiculous name. With "Fieldhaven" in my head as a surname for this commander, I chose a likely looking forename from a list of 1800s names. And thus Jeremiah Fieldhaven came into existence. I connected with other Elite Dangerous players on Twitter and Discord with the same name, and the rest is history really.