The first games I have actual memories of playing are Hello Kitty: Roller Rescue, The Simpsons: Hit & Run and MX World Tour on the PlayStation 2.

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Skipping over various Wii or Nintendo DS games, the next thing I remember playing is a handful of PlayStation 3 titles: Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Call of Duty: World at War, LittleBigPlanet. 

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The first narrative focused games I became aware of were things like Life is Strange, The Last of Us and Beyond: Two Souls. I experienced these through ‘Let's Plays’ on YouTube. I spent a lot of this time in my early teens wishing I could actually play these titles instead of just watching someone else.

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Next it was Assassin’s Creed. I tore through the first few games, became infatuated with the worldbuilding and invested in the story.

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Then along comes Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. I was, and still am in love with that game (flaws and all). This is probably when the floodgates opened.

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Skip ahead a few dozen games and a handful of years and I’m sinking my teeth into more and more narrative-heavy games. Bioshock, more Assassin’s Creed, Wolfenstein: The New Order, inFamous, Firewatch, Tomb Raider (2013), Alien: Isolation, etc. 

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An important note to add; young me had a penchant for writing stories. I loved creative writing and flexing my storytelling muscles.

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I applied to study Game Development: Writing at University. It would combine two of my biggest passions: writing and games. At that point I knew game writing was an interest, by the end of the first year I knew that game writing was going to be my profession of choice.