It's been 10 years

[NpcDog]

Hello everyone!

It's been about 10 years since I got to know MTA and the community. Ten years ago I was 18, now I'm 28. Ten years ago I knew absolutely nothing about programming, and MTA plunged me into the wonderful world of scripting, mapping and modeling. I was excited to create my own maps and write my first scripts, which can still be found in the public access (on a different account that I lost access to long ago), I was asking stupid questions and learning the basics of OOP at night... What a time!

This project is what made me become a developer, and I've been doing commercial development all these 10 years. I've worked in startups and enterprises, in various cities and countries, using a lot of different programming languages in various fields. All this is purely due to the fact that at some point I found this project, which drew me in immediately and wordlessly, having opened for me the world of programming and showing its possibilities.

I still remember creating my first maps and trying to understand how loops and arrays work. I've been a professional developer for a long time now and of course such questions seem silly to me now, but I still remember thanks to what and how I became a developer.

Thank you so much to the founders, maintainers, and the entire MTA community for being you!

Feel free to share your stories guys

[Shady1]

5 minutes ago, NpcDog said:

Hello everyone!

It's been about 10 years since I got to know MTA and the community. Ten years ago I was 18, now I'm 28. Ten years ago I knew absolutely nothing about programming, and MTA plunged me into the wonderful world of scripting, mapping and modeling. I was excited to create my own maps and write my first scripts, which can still be found in the public access (on a different account that I lost access to long ago), I was asking stupid questions and learning the basics of OOP at night... What a time!

This project is what made me become a developer, and I've been doing commercial development all these 10 years. I've worked in startups and enterprises, in various cities and countries, using a lot of different programming languages in various fields. All this is purely due to the fact that at some point I found this project, which drew me in immediately and wordlessly, having opened for me the world of programming and showing its possibilities.

I still remember creating my first maps and trying to understand how loops and arrays work. I've been a professional developer for a long time now and of course such questions seem silly to me now, but I still remember thanks to what and how I became a developer.

Thank you so much to the founders, maintainers, and the entire MTA community for being you!

Feel free to share your stories guys

hello, your feedback for MTA makes me and mta players happy, it is a great source of pride that you learned programming and solved some algorithms thanks to mta, I hope everything goes well in your life and I wish to see better days.
As a player and developer of MTA, I would like to thank you and myself for choosing MTA.

best regards
Shady

I spent half of my life with the MTA family, like you, I was a player and software development engineer at first, then I met Lua and made an effort to examine all Lua versions, in the following days I started to provide services to MTA players as a full-stack-developer, this has been both voluntary and paid, I have a mta adventure of more than 10 years and I am happy about it, I can say that some periods are the turning point of my life.

[TMTMTL]

Hey. That's amazing man. I wish I could say the same, though I have now expanded into other languages and begun working on my first ever real game, so I guess I could say because of MTA I pursued becoming a solo game dev?

Originally I begun playing with Lua in Garry's Mod around 2008-2009, but I was a big samp player, when a friend told me about MTA and that it used Lua that was it for me lol. Nearly 15 years later here I still am, with a bit of a hiatus in-between lol. Kids for ya.

Take it easy man, glad you're keeping well.