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As I told my parents about that I just started creating games right now, they reminded me of the games I designed as a kid. I completely forgot, that I have been doing this 30 years ago already!
It's like with so many other things, I am just rekindling some urge, some interest, some love for stuff that was already there back then, when I was just a child. May it be aliens, dinosaurs or monster movies.
Every child plays and paints and dreams up things, of course. But I started writing at an early age, and wanted to be a professional, I wrote lots of short stories, novels and children's books.
That brought me to film making somehow. Writing is always the cheapest part about making films (that's what I don't understand, why doesn't Hollywood invest more time and money in some good writing?!)
Making films, even my artsy student short films were very very expensive and it just takes too much time and effort and you have to have collaborators that sometimes even want to get paid (the audacity!!!). My latest film, a feature length documentary, is in post-production hell, right now. I won't be able to start another project that size until it's finally done, if ever.
I am a father of two, they and my wife shall get most of my attention, but I aspire to be a real renaissance man. Versed in many fields, I am an IT specialist with full-time employment.
One shouldn't be proud, it is said. But I think, this means you shouldn't be proud of things you had no partake in, like where you were born. I am proud that I managed to acquire my masters degree in fine arts, even if their was a pandemic around, even if I had to work my ass off to make ends meet.
I never had any illusion about becoming famous or rich with my doodling and fooling around. It's just what I do, what I have been doing all my life as I see now in retrospect.
With the age comes not only introspection, I try to understand our universe, the spiritual and material world and want to make the world a better place for everyone, not just obese balding hetero cis men like I am.
