Francesco Mistri, BallMan

Hi there, this page is a summary of my life interests. If you are interested in my projects, visit the project's page.

My name is Francesco Mistri (aka BallMan). I'm a Machine Learning Engineer at Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, in Munich. My main background is Computer Science.

Computer Science / Programming

I started getting interested in this subject in my youth. Game development is what brought me here. Searching on the web for ways to "make a game", I found a tool that permitted visual scripting (definitely more practical for a child) called Game Maker.

I'm an addicted linux user (Arch btw).

This website was generated with a tool designed by me, webloft.

Music

I make terrible music. I'm a guitarist and bassist. Nowadays, I mainly produce soundtracks for videogames, often times my own ones (check something out on SoundCloud).

Keep it simple, stupid

My goal: to avoid useless superstructures while keeping things as practical as possible.

Videogames

Certainly I'm not the only one who grew up playing and loving videogames. I assume most of the independent game developers out there chose this path due to their love for this medium.

I consider myself a programmer who makes games on a journey to find the Quintessence, an ideal mix between computer science and arts.