Hello there, team. I’m happy you stumbled upon this post. This is my first step into a long-standing dream of writing about video games, and I invite you along for the ride.
I’ve been playing video games for as long as I remember. I have photos of me sitting on my dad’s lap where he showed me stuff on the computer when I was two years old. Soon after, I started playing around with Microsoft Paint. Naturally, that quickly evolved into video games.
In the beginning, I was playing simple titles like Ski Jump Deluxe, Worms Armageddon, and the Pink Panther series. But it wasn’t long before I was playing Stronghold, Claw, Red Alert 2, Age of Empires, and Empire Earth – all before I turned 7.
I’ve also been reading about video games for just as long. There were multiple magazines I read religiously over the years, and I still subscribe to one of the physical magazines I started reading when I was 12.
It’s probably no surprise I wanted to write about games, too. When I was 10, I wrote my first article: a game review of Gothic 2: Night of the Raven. I posted it somewhere on the internet and even sent it to the editors of the magazine I was reading at the time. It was super cool to get a response praising my writing at such a young age. And both my letter and the response were published in the magazine as well!
Well, I think they had a pretty low bar. I recently managed to find my original manuscript, and it wasn’t great. Of course, I was young, but the number of spelling mistakes, grammar mistakes, and completely nonsensical sentences is enormous. Hopefully, my writing has improved since then (especially now that I’m writing in a second language).
Even though I didn’t become a professional video games journalist, I always wanted to work in the industry. When I was around 10, a technician came to our house to install a new internet connection. He was friendly, saw how interested I was in what he was doing, and asked who I wanted to be when I grew up. I told him I wanted to make video games. He advised me to study computer science at university so I could do just that.
And since that very moment, my career path was set.
Of course, looking at my resume today, I never actually became a video game developer. I don’t work in the industry at all. I’m a software development engineer who digs in distributed systems. However, the strong love for video games is still very much alive.
That’s exactly why I wanted to add a Video Games category to my blog. It’s a place where I can write about this thing I love – the hobby that put me in the professional position I’m in right now, and that remains a massive part of my life.
If you’d like to join me for the ride, feel free to follow me on my social media in the footer, or follow my RSS feeds (you don’t risk anything):
I currently have a few ideas for upcoming articles: a review of a game I finished recently: The Alters, or an essay on the fall of Call of Duty: Warzone, a battle royale I’ve been playing on and off since the pandemic.
In the meantime, while you’re here, you might be interested in checking out the first articles in my other categories: Hello World – The Start of the Hoxmot Blog (Software Development) and Hello There (Tech & Gear).