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Overview

  • 9 references 5 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Spanish; learning French
  • 37, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • Game Designer
  • Bachelor's in Game Design
  • From Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To become the Charles Bukowski of video games.

ABOUT ME

I'm just some Mexican guy who happens to design video games for a living and due to a chain of events ended up in Helsinki.

PHILOSOPHY

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
-Douglas Adams

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Right now I mostly only go to events.

Interests

Video games, English literature, drinking, sleeping...

  • literature
  • design
  • drinking
  • video games

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy, Catch-22, Demian, Neverwhere, American Gods, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, JPod, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Still Life With Woodpecker, Le Petit Prince...
Authors: Douglas Adams, Neil Gaiman, David Sedaris, Augusten Burroughs, Christopher Moore...

Movies: Snatch, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Storytelling, Coraline, Clerks 2 and The Science of Sleep. The required cliché ones would be Pulp Fiction and Trainspotting.

Tv: Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Whitest Kids U Know, How I Met Your Mother, Dr. Horrible, Adventure Time, Invader Zim, Flight of the Conchords, Arrested Development, The IT Crowd, House MD, Scrubs and 30 Rock.
Anime: FLCL, Gunbuster 2, Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop, Gurren Lagann...

Music: Eels, Animal Collective, BRMC, They Might Be Giants, Los Campesinos!, Anamanaguchi, The Spinto Band, Of Montreal, Neutral Milk Hotel, Flight of the Conchords, Cold War Kids, Spoon, Café Tacuba, Battles, and mostly indie rock/pop.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Depends on your definition of amazing.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach game design? I don't think many people care about that though.

Countries I’ve Visited

Algeria, Belgium, Canada, Estonia, France, Spain, Sweden, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Finland, France, Mexico

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