About Me
My name is Jason Murray. I was born in 1983, first played Mega Man 2 somewhere around 1990, and knew from that moment on that I wanted to create games for a living. I grew up in a tiny little town called Pocahontas, Virgina and graduated in the top ten in my class. Don’t let that fool you though, the class was only about 35 people. Still, I had a solid 3.5 GPA from watching too much Discovery and History Channels.
I went to East Tennessee State University in 2001 because I had seen a really cool demonstration of their Digital Media department on a school field trip and was sold. Somewhere in this area I met my future wife, discovered that programming was as much fun as art, and developed a nasty addiction to Pen and Paper RPGs. I graduated in 2006 with a BS in Digital Media and a Minor in Computer Science.
After working for a small company in Asheville, NC for a while doing freelance stuff I was hit by the Recession(TM) and pretty much had no choice but beg an old friend for a job in retail so that I could afford to eat. Somewhere around this time I decided to help a friend with a big project that turned into the Flatware 2D Game Engine. It was also around this time that it dawned on me just how much my college time was wasted as I had exactly NOTHING to show in my portfolio. Thus I began the first of a series of web sites that finally culminated in this one before you. Enjoy!
Factoids
- Vegetarian. Off and on for years (since the early college days), but seriously for the last 3 years. It started as a health thing that my wife was really into. After much meditation I’ve decided that it is extremely important to me to live cruelty free. I won’t go vegan because it is too extreme for me, and like all extreme things becomes a bit illogical. I do (tentatively) support free range farming and I have no problems at all with hunting for meat for those that feel the need, as at least the animal has lived a natural happy life up until death.
- Favorite JRPG: Chrono Trigger. Favorite JRPG series: Dragon Quest. Favorite JRPG of late: Lost Odyssey.
- Favorite WRPG: Knights of the Old Republic. Favorite WRPG series: Elder Scrolls. Favorite WRPG of late: Mass Effect 2.
- Favorite action game: Super Metroid. Favorite action game series: Mega Man. Favorite action game of late: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves.
- Favorite fighting game: Street Fighter Alpha 3. Favorite fighting game series: King of Fighters. Favorite fighting game of the moment: BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger or Super Street Fighter IV.
- Guilty pleasure game: Samurai Warriors 2.
- Favorite band: Led Zeppelin. Favorite music genre: Heavy Metal. Favorite band of the moment: Eluveitie.
- Guilty pleasure band/artist: Jewel.
- Favorite drama: Last Samurai. Favorite comedy: Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Favorite thriller: Departed. Favorite action movie: Hero or Die Hard.
- Guilty pleasure movie: the Last Dragon.
- Favorite anime movie: Akira. Favorite anime OVA: Record of Lodoss War. Favorite anime series: Wolf’s Rain.
- Guilty pleasure anime: Yoroiden Samurai Troopers.
- Favorite fiction book: the Lord of the Rings. Favorite fiction series: Katherine Kerr’s Deverry series. Favorite fiction book of late: Cloud of Sparrows.
- Favorite author: Isaac Asimov.
- Favorite myth: Susanoo and Orochi. Favorite mythology: Norse. Mytholgy of recent interest: Celtic.
- Favorite non-fiction book: A Brief History of Time. Favorite non-fiction book of late: Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me).
- Favorite poet: T.S. Eliot or Emily Dickenson. Favorite poem: The Hollow Men.
- Favorite literary classic: the Scarlet Letter or the Great Gatsby. Favorite literary classic author: William Shakespeare.
- Favorite comic book character: Magneto. Favorite comic book series: X-Men. Favorite comic book movie: Spider-man.
- Table top RPG system of choice: HERO System.
- Operating System of choice: Debian Linux (Ubuntu Linux when Debian won’t run).
- Favorite food: Panang Curry. Favorite cuisine: Chinese. Favorite food of the moment: Snobby Joes.
- Favorite color: Green.
