About me

Welcome aboard! I'm Andrea Corriga, Ph.D. and a Software Engineer currently living in Sardinia, Italy. You can find me on social networks and in games under the username AsoStrife.

I'm 0 years old and have several passions, including sports, music, video games and programming. I regularly train in my personal home gym, go swimming, and I've been playing electric guitar since I was eleven, very sporadically, and, to be honest, I still suck at it; it's a noisy hobby I enjoy despite the lack of talent. I discovered programming when I was eight while attempting to build my first website. My very first project was a simple Pokémon fan site created with FrontPage 2003: it used a single image tiled as the background and featured the message (in Italian) "Benvenuti sul più grande sito di Pokémon del mondo!!" — "Welcome to the world's largest Pokémon site!!". My plans to publish it online were halted when I encountered FTP credentials, which I didn't understand at the time.

My favourite video game is Final Fantasy VII; I have a long-standing passion for the Final Fantasy series. At sixteen I launched FFStory (Final Fantasy Story), a site that collected guides, walkthroughs and discussions about Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts. Despite my early inexperience, the site grew to over 10k unique monthly visitors, supported a forum with around 300 active users, hosted dozens of live chat participants, and gathered more than 16k likes on Facebook. I've reuploaded the site for fun at http://ffstory.it.

At the time I authored the Final Fantasy VII guides and borrowed content from the 1997 official guide. Because of my age and limited experience back then, I did not always verify the sources of contributions made by others; as a result, some content may have been copied from sources that are still unknown to me.