Hey folks, I'm new to posting on these forums but I saw this thread and it seems like as decent a point as any to say what's up.
But yeah! Games! I just always wanted to make them. I like that, as a medium, you get to do art and music and writing (and I like the problem-solving bits of programming). So I went to college as a music major and jumped around a bunch, eventually getting a traditional art degree and a CS degree.
When I first started making games for a living (early 2000s, as a texture artist on PS2 sports games) the only way you could make a game was to go work at some big company. And just about the only way to work at a big company who made games you actually liked was to work for some other company first. So I did that for a while! And met some super nice people, all of them with their eyes on the prize of someday making cool games. By the mid-2000s suddenly people were making games on their own and releasing them and then regular folks could play them! What!
Some time around then I switched over to full-time programming. I got married and have since had a couple kids. Now I make games for them (at Double Fine!).
