#3.)
Video games have played a huge role in my life even if I don't become a game designer. A brief insight to my gaming history: started playing when I was around 6 years old. My first console was the super nintendo. The funny thing is the person that introduced me to video games was my dad who hates that I play today. I first played super mario and castlevania. In the beginning I played solely for fun and didn't make much of the games. As I got older I got more critical about the games I played and would critique the games constructively. At this point I realized that I enjoyed the designing aspect of video games. This realization made me want to pursue game design but the closest thing to it at my school was film. I noticed that games had cut scenes and I figured that learning even the cinematic aspect would make me a better game designer in the long run. After learning as much about film as my school had to offer I went to study Film at UCSC. As I got further into film I felt it was limited and didn't create the same emotion one gets from interacting with the game oppose simply watching. UCSC had its own game design BA under the major of computer science. I wasn't sure if I wanted to jump into it because my family wasn't fond of it. I noticed in the media and all over t.v. commercials that games were becoming insanely mainstream. You could find ads everywhere even in movie theaters. So I decided to take a chance and major in game design. Playing video games has made me realize that I am more creative than I ever knew. I am more analytical. Video games have made me view the world as a source of references for everything I can potentially create someday.
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