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Adam Searle
adam-searle@hotmail.com
Explore the milestones of my journey: a blend of professional development in software, game, and web technologies, and personal growth through meditation, surfing, and introspective experiences. This space is a candid chronicle of my path through the world of coding and key experiences that have shaped my perspective along the way.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts
Warcraft 3 map editor
2004
First Exploration into the world coding. Had fun learning about triggers, logical structures, creating some maps and testing them out online with other players
Plymouth College of Art and Design - BA in Design for Games
2012-2015
Enjoyer of game design, 3D modelling, art, and level design. Developed a game, Bob, using Unity and C# for the final major project.
First Vipassana meditation retreat
2016
Witnessed where mind and matter meet, and saw there is no barrier, rather a continuous field of energy. Then, deep in meditation, I 'overheard', in my mind, an unseen council say: 'He's ready'. In replying 'Ready for what?' I then experienced a full dissolving of the physical form, a state free from self, no point of reference. After some time, a point of reference manifested. And then the physical became apparent, layer by layer of subtle yet powerful energy. To observe the mind start again, to watch as the wheel slowly ground to a start. The paradox of a desire to release; the very cause of grasping. And so my suffering revealed, illusory and self generated.
MSc in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems
2016-2017
Chosen out of a wish to learn, to discover more. Modules included: Neuroscience of Conciousness, Artifical Life, Object Oriented Programming, Intelligence in Animals and Machines and more.
VR experience at Brighton Science Festival
2017
Created a VR dream experience exploring consciousness and perception. Included a flight experience, where you fly over a dream-like landscape and off into space. This was controlled by eye movements and head direction.
Ultimate web designer & developer course
2018
Expanded on my coding skills, branching out into web development by taking an online course
Crowdfunder - Juniour web developer
2019
Started working for Crowdfunder. Met a steep but throughly enjoyable learning curve. Felt lucky to have found such an amazing place to work with such great people. Found myself starting to feel truly happy, doing something I loved for it's own purpose.
Driving home after a Vipassana
Circa 2020
Driving home after one vipassana or another: Laughter, beauty, feeling music so deeply, in my very vibrational being. Seeing the frustration of other drivers, and laughing at the futility of it. As if you can be somewhere else, as if generating anger and frustration will get you 'there' faster. 'How can you be anywhere other than here'... an easy mistake to make...especially when it appears that we are indeed going somewhere. Which of course, we aren't, for after all, even when you get there, it's still here.
Hunted Cow - Game developer and designer
2020
Hired as a game developer, I quickly demonstrated my passion and creativty for game and also worked on the design side of things. Had a blast.
Masters of Pie - Software dev
2021
Worked as a software dev for a London based company. The focus was mostly around the Radical SDK developed in C# and .NET which facilitated real-time 2D and 3D data collaboration. Also worked on some defence contract work using C# in Unity and got exposed to C++.
200 hour Kundalini yoga teacher training
2022
An accidental expansion of perception beyond the senses, seeing visually in the mind, the bubble and physical limit of the senses, and experiencing consciousness slip beyond this. Leading again, to a release, being shown that nothing needs to change, everything is exactly as it should be. It is only in the striving that we create suffering, the more we see as wrong, the further we are from truth, from love, and the more suffering we experience.
Technical content writer
2022
Worked freelance as a technical content writer. Good exposure to various coding environments and languages. Learned allot about SEO and marketing. Worked with some great people.
Dungeonfysh
2022
Solo developed an AI dungeon master. Implementing a basic combat system using D&D 5E rules. It is still a working prototype for any who want to try it. Click here!
MyWorld Website
2024
Lead/Solo Dev on a website for a scholarship grant scheme, featuring a 3d interactive globe. NextJS/THREEJS/Typescript. Click here!