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CraigEllsworth  ·  3199 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski, what are your hobbies, and how did you discover them?

I make games. Sometimes tabletop games, sometimes videogames. I've always wanted to be an entertainer of some sort. From the time I learned to write I wanted to be a novelist, and after getting an NES at six years old, I was designing levels to games (on paper) by age seven. I learned to play guitar in hopes of starting a band. I've been an extra in a couple of theater productions and a low budget film. Heck, I was a clown for two years in a circus for kids.

Growing up, I was of course always told the next step after high school is college, and you get to pick your degree. Out of all of those options, I suppose I could have gone to acting school like my sister, but I discovered that videogame design was a new field that a few schools were offering, and I believed that of all of my preferred methods of entertainment, videogame development would give me the most chance of getting a successful career. Unlike all the other options, videogame design was an office job with steady hours, so I figured that would be the way to go. It would rely on hard work more than a lucky break (so I thought).

So I got a B.S. in videogame design, and... now I do non-game-related stuff for money. So I work on games as a hobby. Though my degree was videogames, I got into some very fun tabletop games at college with roommates and friends, so that steered me into that direction, as well.

I have a blog that's mostly about my game development which has recently been consumed by a card game called FissureVerse, though I've got a bunch of other projects scattered around.