I grew up with just enough tech to fall in love with games and just little enough that I had to fight to make them run. I played everything on machines I cobbled together from thrift store finds, old parts, and anything my dad's friends had collecting dust in their garages. Running games at single-digit frame rates, tweaking .ini files, and trying to get mods working on aging hardware was normal. I didn't mind... in truth, I was just happy to be playing at all.

Games were a comfort during my childhood and also seemed like magic. They weren't just entertainment, they were escape, inspiration, and connection. I remember the comfort playing Harvest Moon 64 with my dad (or more so watching him play, while pretending he didn't like it while waking up at 6am to start before the kids woke up, being visibly heartbroken when one of the characters passed away and working hard pursuing a marriage with Anne) and the thrill of StarCraft marathons with friends at LAN parties. Games brought me closer to my dad, my friends at school, and eventually to strangers online who felt like they spoke the same language.

I always knew I didn't just want to play games. I wanted to create them. I built custom scenarios in anything that would let me: Age of Empires, Warcraft III, even hacked-together attempts to mod RuneScape and Mount & Blade. My ideas were always bigger than what I could pull off, but the itch to create never left. When I finished High School, I didn't give up on my dream but other things took over, like finding a normal job and making enough money to eat. Over time, I taught myself music, pixel art, and programming... piece by piece, driven by that same love I had as a kid watching loading bars crawl across secondhand, literal road-side CRTs.

Professionally, I've spent years working in IT and DevOps, planning major technical projects & ensuring run smoothly behind the scenes and to the client. That background taught me how to organize complexity, manage scope, and actually ship things, lessons I now apply to game development every day. These days I work full-time and spend nearly all of my free hours making games.

I build games with a DIY mindset, grounded in nostalgia and sharpened by experience and driven by the joy of turning my ideas into real, playable worlds. Creating realistic scopes, setting proper expectations and delivering on those expectations has become second nature. After years of building small games to practice my skillset from everywhere from DarkGDK in C++, Love2D and Godot I know what I want to make and I know how to make it.