About

Currently Clavus Studios is the studio name I use to present most of my own work. 'Clavus' is a nickname I use myself, but the original owner of the name is my lizard (R.I.P. 01-02-2010).

Personal information

Picture of me	Real name:	Joeri van der Velden
	Gender:	Male
	Birthdate:	March 16th 1989
	Current location:	Delft, Netherlands
	Studying:	3rd year Technische Informatica (Computer Science) at the Delft University of Technology

Introduction:
I grew up with a passion for video games ever since that wonderful day I got my Nintendo 64 system. After I got into game making itself using the easy-to-use Game Maker program, I grew more and more aware of how games are build up and how they serve to give the player a great experience. I have an eye for detail and spotting potential problems, which is a good thing when it comes to game development. The games I make rarely have obvious bugs. One downside of my character is that I can get demotivated over time. A lot of projects fell victim to lack of interest. In the year 2007 I came across a small multiplayer gaming community for which I started modding gameservers. The modifications and new gamemodes I made were succesful enough to make the community's game servers popular up to this day. I'm now learning to use more complex game development tools, hoping to create a commercial game in the nearby future. - Joeri van der Velden (a.k.a Clavus, ClavusElite, and Joerdgs)

Programming language experience

Lua

C#, C, C++

Java

PHP, HTML, Javascript

VBscript

Haskell

Game Maker Language

Thanks to my education and experience, I can make pretty much every programming language my own in a short time.

Achievements

Quite possibly my biggest achievement up till now when it comes to game development. My game L.E.I.P was chosen by all contestants as the most entertaining game in the competition. My prize included a Ipod Nano that I still use today.

My latest achievement; getting featured in a huge gaming magazine. And I didn't even know about it until a few months after the issue was released. The PC Gamer UK dedicated half a page in their mods section to my Infected Wars gamemode (which currently runs on the Mr. Green servers). View high resolution scan of the article here.

More coming!

External profiles

Steam (community group)

Computer Specifications

Every decent PC gamer brags about his home-build monster. So do I.

Processor	Intel Core i5 750
RAM	4GB DDR3
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3
Graphics Card	ATI Sapphire HD5850
Power Supply	Coolermaster Real Power M620
Case	Coolermaster Centurion 5

Played, watched and enjoyed

This part meant as a sort of social profile/history. I'm not really into websites like MySpace and Facebook, so I'll just dump a list of games, music and anime series I like here...