Hello all, I'm Ren.
I'm a 22 year old American game dev that really wants to quit his day job. I went to college for two years to learn both the design aspects behind making a successful game, as well as the programming required to make games using several 2D engines (They stopped teaching 3D by the time I got to it, so I've had to teach myself). This degree has only gotten me retail positions in the real world, forcing me to use the entirety of my free time actually working on what will make my life better. Now I'm taking another step, another opportunity, towards doing what I actually love. I'd like to use Steemit to be able to write about what's important to me, while getting paid for it at the same time. This is obviously the concept that drove everyone else to this website, but I'm looking to bring a type of content that I've seen very little of here: game reviews.

Why video game reviews?
With the death of YouTube being plausibly within the year, it's understanding that this platform will begin to see an exodus of content creators looking for a better, more stable source of income. And understandably, they're more likely to join if there is a large pre-existing community here; one that separates itself from talks of the cryptocurrency backbone of steemit, or that of more traditional art forms, and more towards what they already know. The goal will be to eventually make the tags "gamedev" and "gamereview" be popular enough to attract more content creators who are good at making this type of content. So when YouTube does finally die, this platform will have a fighting chance to redirect of of YouTube's lost business here.

So here I am, the game dev.
I'm not a pioneer to this genre, but simply one of the first to try and use this platform for the sole purpose of writing good review content that has ironically been seen in big you-tubers, but not game critics from the big name websites. What makes me different than the big names? Well, I actually enjoy video games for one. It seems like it should be a requirement in the industry of criticism/journalism, but it's not. I also have a very advanced knowable of how games work based on my own in-process, unreleased projects. There are many design aspects within games that aren't brought up, simply because the normal consumer/critic doesn't know they're there. I'm hopeful I can prove myself to be a competent critic in time, and more importantly, I hope I can both entertain you while providing an insightful look into the design of both popular and unpopular gaming media.

Thank you for taking the time to read what I hope is the start of a long, beautiful, game blog.