Matthew McLaughlin
Game Design & Emerging Media Major

Background

A lot of my childhood revolved around playing video games which I believe influenced my decision to pursue a career in Game Design. I've always been fascinated with the design of games and how they function and It really pushed me to want to understand more about games and why they can be so captivating.

While attempting to find my passion within games, I've gone through the various sections of game design and have experimented with a variety of different concentrations. In my younger years, I was very interested in Graphic Design and Art. At one point, I was making abstract logos and simple UI Designs for small twitch streamers along with doing pixel art commissions on DeviantArt of people's concept art.​

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As of lately, I have moved away from art and have taken the time to focus more on the general design of games. Creating a unique concept and the systems within a concept have been my favorite aspect of designing games since I began to learn more about the process during college. On top of this, I have also learned a few programming languages. Following my last project where I worked closely in a studio environment with the Unity Game Engine. I have expanded out to working on my own Indie projects.

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