Well, not much has changed in the 17 years since I first joined the Mirage Source community. Still messing around with games, although I realised I'd never actually release a game that was popular, or even had any players, I just do it because I enjoy messing around with game development stuff.
I joined the British Army in 2009, came out of basic, went back 6 years later, served 4 and 1/2 years as a Vehicle Mechanic, just got out, going back in reserves in a couple years after I've finished my bachelors degree in automotive technology, probably go back as an MP, something different.
Got married a year ago, got 4 kids, other than that, nothing worth writing a book about.
Got a few projects at the moment:
MirageSource 5 - http://ms.draignet.ukPacket byte array system, seamless scrolling maps, DirectX 8, MP3 and a few other bits. Has been released in VB6, currently working on a VB.NET version and C# version. Possibly will do a Python version if I can learn enough to do it.
MirageMUDOpen source VB6 based partially text-based MUD engine.
I also run a rust server,
http://rustoleum.draignet.ukAnd I have a SAMP server in the works.