The Games that Saved Me

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A memoir of a life in games I've made and  games I've played

Check out memories of games like

• Final Fantasy VII
• Flash games like Newgrounds and Homestar Runner
• Neopets
• French MMORPG Dofus
• Games flipping at Blockbuster Video and Gamestop
• Freelance game journalism

See the life that led to the choices made the following

• Geeky origins as a lonely kid
• Running a college game dev club
• Making narrative games that made people laugh, and made people cry
• Co-founding a nonprofit for underrepresented game devs
• Running a sleeper hit quiet party for game devs
• Graduating from NYU's Master's of Fine Arts in Game Design program
• Going to the brink and how I managed to come back through my knowledge of psychology, philosophy, and gaming

Through the lenses of

• Growing in parallel with the evolution of games as a medium from the 90s to 2020s
• As an Asian American
• As a New Yorker (I'm walkin' here!)
• As someone with a neurodivergent background