When you were five, what did you want to be when you grew up?

I can now say that this was over 30 years ago for me, so I can’t really recall if I had ever answered this question when I was five. Not that it really mattered then and I only cared about having fun. In the eyes of five-year-old me the world was very different and much smaller, so I probably gave stereotypical answers like wanting to be a firefighter or astronaut.

While I can’t recall what I might have thought at five years old, I can at least say that somewhere between the ages of 11 and 14 I had wanted to make games for a living and was even looking into how to enroll at Digipen in Washington. That obviously never happened, but that should give you some idea of how differently my life turned out by going from Colorado to South Dakota instead of Washington.