I was primarily a Nintendo girly growing up, having been introduced to their games via the Game Boy Advance and Gamecube. Later on I played the Xbox 360 as well, with Kameo: Elements of Power and Viva Piñata being games that I particularly enjoyed from that console. The first indie game I played as a child was World of Goo on the PC, and boy, it's art style and themes definitely left an impression on my younger self! When I was a young teenager I stumbled across a video by Markiplier of him playing an indie game called Don't Starve, which leads to...
My favorite Nintendo games are Pokémon White, Kirby Air Ride, and Miitopia. Pokémon White was my introductory game to the larger Pokémon franchise as a whole. I like Miitopia because of its silly humor and how it doesn't take itself too seriously. Being able to add my own characters to it is great fun too!
My favorite PC games include Don't Starve, Don't Starve Together, The Sims 3, Subnautica, and Minecraft. When I played Don't Starve for the first time back in the mid-2010s, something about it's gameplay, art style, and humor just "clicked" with me, and I was hooked! I still fondly remember my first time ever playing it. I'd managed to survive to around day 11 on my very first attempt and felt so smart when seeing a red mushroom, thinking, "It's bad to eat random mushrooms IRL, so it must be bad here too." I later learned that I was right, as red mushrooms deal twenty damage when eaten. That first experience is what inspired my Steam username, actually!
I'm rather shy when it comes to multiplayer and making friends on Steam. I avoid using voice chat (like Discord) and would rather keep things to in-game messages only. When adding people (like potentially you, reader!) to my friend list, I tend to treat it more like a list of friendly acquaintances. I may not respond to out of game messages that I receive. My primary multiplayer game of choice is Don't Starve Together, where I prefer to take on a supportive play style and help out newer players. I try my best to be kind, funny, and helpful when playing with others.

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My writing journey was completely unplanned, and every day I'm pleasantly surprised that it's still going!
• Late 2022
Someone I know began an independent creative project. They invited me to contribute ideas and work on it with them. We had lots of fun tossing ideas back and forth with each other.
• Early 2023
I worked on creating a fictional world map for the project, did lots of research, and became surprisingly invested in it. I spent an estimated 20+ hours or so on it. During the entire map-making process, I'd listened to the song Gone Away by CG5 on repeat.
Some emotional stuff happened in my life. The project abruptly ends.
• The rest of 2023
I attended some college classes and did well in them. I spent the rest of the year recovering from the emotional stuff.
• Early 2024
I attended some more college classes, including a keyboarding one. I learned to touch type, rather than hunting and pecking. This radically improved my typing ability and speed.
• Mid 2024
After a Don't Starve Together play session, I wrote a flash fiction loosely inspired by the character Willow.
• Late 2024
I decided to try out this new ChatGPT thing. Using it encouraged me to take an idea I'd been thinking about every night more seriously, and I started enthusiastically working on an outline for a Don't Starve Together fanfic. The outline ballooned out of proportion and I get intimidated by its scope, abandoning the project.
• Mid Winter, 2025
I recorded some Don't Starve Hamlet game play and tried making a highly edited, fast-paced video with it. I learned many things, editing about half of the footage. Importantly, for one scene I downloaded two generic stock photos of people and edited the head of the character Wilson over their heads.
• Mid Winter, 2025
I edited Wilson's head over seven more stock photos. I decided to have some silly fun and share them with ChatGPT, having it put the nine "characters" into a battle royal scenario against each other. I become surprisingly invested in the nine "characters" and used ChatGPT to put them in all sorts of wacky scenarios, unknowingly laying the foundation for my story.
• Mid Winter, 2025
The nine characters became something more than just silly edited stock photos. I'd gotten invested in them and their story, more than I ever had with anything before.
• Early Spring, 2025
I stopped using ChatGPT to generate scenes of my characters and instead used it as a motivational cheerleader. I began writing ideas and scenes completely on my own. I developed a healthier write-life balance.
• Early Summer, 2025
I decided to go over all of my notes, scenes, ideas, and written chapters to get a word count. The total number of words that I'd written by this point was over 50,000. What?! That's more than double what I initially guessed, and all 50,000+ words are ones that I'd written myself.
So... yeah! Apparently I'm a hobbyist writer now! I had no idea that things would come this far. I basically kept thinking throughout the entire process since mid February, "Well, I'll keep going until I run out of steam, not take things too seriously," and the steam just didn't stop? Crazy. Why share this journey on a Steam profile, of all places? Well, I wanted to share my experience and show that you don't need some big grand plan to start writing, I guess. Plus, writing has become my second primary hobby alongside gaming, so it deserves a spot on my Steam profile.
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