Well, it’s high time for an intro blog! I've been lurking around and posting on the forums for long enough.

My name is Angra [not really]. I'm a seventeen year old girl living in Middle of Nowhere, MA. I've been gaming since I was little - the Nintendo 64 I got for my sixth birthday was what turned me into a gamer. When I was eight or nine I started playing PC games and that's when I played Grim Fandango for the first time. While I'm sure I didn't appreciate all of the subtleties in a game like that [although I was a really smart kid], that game changed my life. For the first time I began to think that I could make these things someday. I played other LucasArts adventure games and they continued to nurture that dream. All thoughts of growing up to be a movie star or a ballerina were dismissed - I wanted to make video games.

Now I'm going to go to school for that dream. In the fall I'll be going to Champlain College to major in their Game Design program and I've never been so excited in my life. I'm going to be a huge dick and brag for a second and say that they only accept 40 kids into the program even though they get over 300 applicants per year. FUCK YEAH. The program the school offers is amazing. All the professors have worked in the industry for years - one of them was a producer of X-Play back when it was still Extended Play and another made the Carmen Sandiego games - and the college has a 95% job placement rate for graduates. The professors go to game conferences and scout for jobs for their senior students. Also, in my senior year, I GET TO GO TO THE GDC.

Haha, can you tell how excited I am?

When I get out of college, it would be my dream to work for Double Fine or BioWare. Both have heavily influenced the type of games I try to design, but especially BioWare. I focus a lot on story, characters, and plot development. Character depth is really important to me. I hate seeing, especially in RPGs, the same recycled characters over and over.

I want to be a female Tim Schafer and breathe a new life into the industry, and I think I can do it.

If you have any other questions, feel free to ask me! :]