I am a code warrior with a designers eye. Artistic techie or tech savvy artist? I'm still not really sure, but by eight years old I knew exactly what I wanted to do with my life: make video games and compose rock & roll soundtracks for them. I began programming at 14 and I've never stopped. I love the craft. It's an art. It's a science. It's a mountain who's peak I'll never reach. When we were kids, grown ups had such contempt for things like Nintendo. They saw blocks and dots, heard bleeps and bloops. I saw myself re-manifested as a hero, a warrior, a pilot, a thief, a boy, a girl, an adventurer with no limits, no fear of death, three save slots, and a reset button. I listened to the genesis of electronic music and hummed along. I knew that games would one day rival (and possibly even surpass) film as one of the greatest collaborative art forms of our civilization. I'm never gonna cure cancer or win the Super Bowl - but I can build compelling experiences, worlds and galaxies, molecules and microbes, dragons and ghosts: out of mere words and symbols, numbers and letters, bits and .bmps. It's magic. It's science. It's my life. It's programming.