(Self-portrait of myself, taken in December of 2016)
Hello, my name is Collin Gaddie. This semester, I am a senior with a Creative Media Production major, going for graduation within this period. I have taken various skills over the years, which include video editing, journalistic writing, and web design. I have not written for fiction before and d not have a lot of confidence in my writing skills, but I will try my best.
My big passion in all of my 21 years (going on 22 in February) is video games. My first gaming console was a Nintendo 64, on which I spent innumerable amounts of my childhood hours in games like Banjo-Tooie, Super Smash Bros., Lego Racers, and Diddy Kong Racing. I would consume other creative media like movies, animations, and graphic novels that I also have great interest in, but video games were always my big constant.
Because they are such a large influence on me, it's wonderful to see them growing to a point where they can function as more than entertainment devices. At the time of this post, the event Awesome Games Done Quick 2017 has recently ended. This is an event where people display skills "speedrunning" games for charity. Speedrunning is the act of finishing a game as fast as possible be it within limitations like completing a certain percentage of the game or by usage of glitches to skip major sections. I've been making a priority of mine to donate to these events by purchasing T-shirts relevant to the event period online.
In recent events of my life, I've been trying to get to some of the games I have on my backburner that I really want to play. Out of curiosity for the series, I've recently started Mega Man Legends, released originally on the PlayStation, but re-released for digital download on the PSN Store.The controls are a bit awkward to get used to, but the cel-shaded aesthetics and premise of ancient underground secrets sounds intriguing to me.
There was also the recent release last November of Pokémon Sun, establishing the seventh generation of the Pokémon series, of which I've been a big fan of. These games more often than not manage to instill a sense of wonderment and adventure in the world around me through its hundreds of fantastical creatures to battle and train with and its infectiously catchy tunes.
If you have any movies, graphic novels, and even games to recommend to me, it would be nice to hear them so that I can expand my range of experiences. I hope we all get along well this semester.
