My Context - Notes

What makes me who I am? What affects me and influences me as a designer and a person? What things in my life has influenced me and my choices, my tastes and my desires? Why do I want to get into the games industry?

When I was born nothing in my life mattered to me, I was an infant and I knew nothing of the outside world. All I could do was eat, sleep and poop, but I was good at it.

Games
Sonic – Cool Spot – Rayman - braid
Worms – Command and Conquer – toy soldiers
X-Men – Streets of Rage – The Warriors - Scott Pilgrim
Tomb Raider – Duke Nukem Time to Kill - Assassins – Batman
Metal Gear – GTA - timesplitters
Resident Evil – Silent Hill – Amnesia - Outlast
Mass effect – bioshock - minecraft

Television
x files, millennium, 24, prison break, dexter, justified, sons, breaking bad, community, Michael j fox, parks and rec, arrow, himym, American horror story, party down, better off ted, rectify, happy endings, poltergeist, invasion, south park, Jericho, the cleaner, awake

Films
the crow, seven, fight club, the shining, beetlejuice, brothers bloom, brick, die hard, man on fire, a man apart, fast and furious, horror. Devil’s Rejects.

Music
Korn – Manson – Zombie *– Skinny Puppy – Ohgr – Aphex Twin – Massive Attack – Prodigy – Kavinsky – College – Lazerhawk – Mitch Murder
The cure - *Zombie - Faith no more – janes – Pumpkins – Chamberlain – Billy Corgan – placebo - garbage
Blink – Primus – Bloodhound gang – MSI -iwrestledabearonce
Kid rock – skynyrd – cash - terry reid

Art
Comics
- Spider-Man
- Batman
- Punisher
- The Maxx
- The Crow
Comics led to drawing, drawing led to art, art led to course

Stories.
Art.
Games.
Horror.

What makes me who I am? – My upbringing, my parents, my friends, my tastes – television, films, music, games obviously, my hobbies, drinking, writing, drawing.
What affects me and influences me as a designer? – Yoji Shinkawa (metal gear art), pixel art, rat fink style monster art, Giger, Gottfried Helnwein, concept art, pencil work, cartoonish exaggeration
And as a person? – Horror, sad stories, engrossing storylines, loss.
What things in my life have influenced me and my choices, my tastes and my desires? – Blockbuster, Reset, K, money, tdr, games, art, drawing, music
Why do I want to get into the games industry? – to influence people as much as the games industry has influenced my feelings, and to create something in a way that expresses my personality.