mastersmith98

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Unfortunately I'm very bad at making introductory posts (I rewrote this first sentence several times), but here goes nothing.

My name is Caleb Smith. I enjoy coding and writing. Of course I have a strong passion for playing games that has stayed with me ever since I first laid hands on the local arcade machine of Pacman. It's always been my dream to be able to create worlds for players to engage and enjoy themselves in.

Games are a very interesting medium in that they allow the player to be in the moment. Note how I say in the moment instead of interactivity. As much as I enjoy games that give you a choice at every whim, games that can carry me down a path without me knowing as well as engage me emotionally are much more interesting to me. I consider games such as Kotor and Mass Effect, of the same principle in that they create emotionally engaging situations that aren't really free form. Even though you can go down paths A, B, or C, you always end up at D making a hard decision that is far from binary.

Valve Software is my favorite video game developer, that has for the most part, gotten everything right in game development. Hopefully, by the grace of the gods, I'll be employed by them in the future working on Half-Life 3 and Left 4 Dead 2 :P.

I don't read books for the sake of reading books, instead I like to say that I read books that are worth reading. Science fiction (for examining the human condition in the future) and Horror (for its supsenseful nature and detailed imagery) are both my favorite book genres. Of course I also enjoy watching movies, mainly Action Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction or Fantasy films.

Well, I've probably missed a lot of aspects about my life, but hopefully this will give you a clear enough picture as to who I am and what I enjoy. Thanks for reading :)