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Hello everyone. My name is Chris. I am 20 years old as of writing, and I am currently a student at Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. I am a Computer Science major/Design minor who loves great food, bad movies, and having a good time.

If you're reading this, then you've stumbled upon the start of my adventure in blogging. How exciting! This blog was created out of a desire to share with the world my growing number of ideas, thoughts, and opinions regarding video games and game design. I have always loved video games, and I expect to be in the game-making industry someday soon, so I think it's time to move beyond simply talking to friends about my ideas and expanding to address the public directly. My intent is to make this blog a nucleus of activity for my ongoing research into all manner of games and their design. I intend to both write my ideas and to discuss them with others, as well as network with those who share my intent and want to push their own career forward as I do. Beyond mere employment matters, I want to encourage people to think deeply about games, to consider exactly why they like or dislike certain things about games, and through discussion and analysis, to develop in myself and others a deeper understanding of video games as they are. My dream is to advance the field of game design as a whole, taking the nebulous do's and don'ts and boiling them down into a solid body of research and conclusions, so that one day we will be able to design, develop, and critique a video game based not purely on subjective opinion but on objective basis and established guidelines backed up by solid research and analysis.

I'm currently embroiled in finals at the moment and don't feel up to writing any good articles at the moment, but I intend to start updating regularly by next week, with a starting minimum of at least one post per week, with the intent to slowly increase my productivity and turn this into a regular thing. I don't intend to make many more personal posts of this nature, preferring to keep this blog game-related as much as possible. I hope you will stick around and hear what I have to say in the future, and as always feel free to leave a comment on what you think of me, my writing, my ideas, my haircut, whatever. I'm always ready to listen.

See you next mission,
-Chris