I have loved playing games all my life. It has been a central focus for as long as I can remember. Although I should say it's not always the playing of the game that is central, it's the interaction with people I am playing with that really gives the buzz of excitment.
I think my deep passion for gaming really started when I was about 6-7 when my brothers and I used to play with a couple of kids who'd visit with their family during the holidays. They owned a holiday home near to where we lived and we'd play much the same games any children 10 and under played. The eldest of the two, however, was also interested in Fighting Fantasy game books and a couple of times he took me, my brothers and his brother on adventures using the Advanced Fighting Fantasy rulebooks, and that was it for me! I was absolutely captivated!
For years I would then try to recreate these adventures with my own friends at school, to some success. When I was about 8 I'd take a few fellow classmates at school on random adventures into dungeons using pieces of paper and a couple of dice. We were all absorbed in it, but it never had the same feel for me.
From then on I started to find different games to play, experienced other peoples opinions on how games should work and I started to make up my own rules and inflict them on my friends!
As we got older they moved onto other things and I started playing in a band so everything sort of died away, but my passion for games never really did. As a 10 year old I remember being asked what I wanted to be when I was older and I said a Games Designers, my teacher didn't know anything about that so he didn't say anymore and I was never asked again! I hope to one day fulfill that dream.
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