Napoleon Martinez

"There's more to living than being alive" - Anberlin

Being California-born yet South Dakota-raised, I've learned that it's not where you are or where you've come from. Sometimes it's not even where you're going. It's all about who you're with and where you want to take each other.

I'm an aspiring video game developer who dabbles in alternative rock, psychology, art and music.I have worked with and as a part of various groups of people and have learned to try and understand how the world around us works. I want to share my life experiences and morals with the rest of the world and therefore seek to create interactive media to change it.

I was inspired by video games as a kid, not merely as entertainment, but as narrative devices used to share ideas and stories. Just like books, just like movies. Video game developers like Jane McGonigal have inspired me to share my ideas and change perspective as to what video games are and what they can be.

I currently attend the University of Southern California pursuing a degree in Narrative Studies with a double major in Interactive Entertainment and Honors in Media Art and Practice. I am seeking to learn to become a game designer and one day, perhaps, start my own video game development studio. I want to create experiences that change how people think and see life, themselves and others. To change the world and its culture. I guess thatgamecompany is one of my models, ha.

My hobbies include learning guitar, remix software, drawing, writing, following my favorite authors and artists like Bryan Lee O'Malley and Neil Gaiman, as well as many other such nonsense.

My current projects include working with SCALE, the cooking show Delish, the Special Events Committee, Interaxon, the Makers of Entertaining Games Association, and my personal blog.

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