Jim Walker

Jim’s roles

• Web design
• Software development
• User experience improvement
• Viral research

Bio

Jim Walker has been working in the internet business for a long time now. His career started at the plump age of 11 when he started to develop websites for various TV shows and games he was a fan of. One of his earliest, and to his demise, still working websites is located on MaxPages server from long ago. Once his learning curve began to straighten out, he joined a community of gamers who played the Whitemask Production: NetMonster. Along with being gamers these friends he would make would also get him into programming on a more serious level.

However, after two years of sharing with these people and the halt production on NetMonster, the community around the game collapsed. Jim’s efforts went from gaming to music. He started to design, slice, program, and maintain websites for local bands in the area such as MouningStar and Bob and the Sagets. This love for music and web-development would set him into his first major project: BandHoster. The PHP, MySQL, and Flash skills he would learn from the development of this project would stick with him and be developed on for the rest of his life. Now that he had a taste of what could be done with the canvas of the internet he set no limits for himself — or anyone else.

Durring the summer of 2007 long after the development of BandHoster and several projects after it Jim opened up the doors to Brave New Games. Brave new games was the launch pad for indie game developers in the internet industry. It provides domain names, hosting space, tutorials, tutoring, all the resources someone who was interested in getting to program would need. “By developing a game, it allows for the artist to learn programming in a fun way. It doesn’t limit you to just making a adding application limited applications. It makes you use your mind to make the connections and piece together the puzzle. And, the best part about it is that once you are done, you can show it off and others can enjoy it with you.” Brave New Games currently hosts over 22 different developers making their dreams come true.

Jim is currently attending Keystone College, managing Brave New Games, working for Health Care Management Resources as a application developer, and continues to develop his own projects on the side.