I've always been fascinated with the potential of computer games as a medium, but at the same time always been frustrated with how uninteresting most games are, with their heavy emphasis on mechanics and skills and points rather than an interesting experience in its own right. I'm not a gamer (= a notgamer?), I just happen to be very interested in games. After a quick browse through, this forum seems to be a great place.
I live in Stockholm, Sweden. A year ago I finished two years' music production education, but if there's anything I don't want to right now, it is to be a music producer. Instead my interests lately have moved in all kinds of other directions, most of them computer related; software design, webdesign, digital art, animation, games... I'm also really interested in UX and such, looking for some appropriate education to jump on.
Whenever I have some free time on my own, I tend to end up at my computer, writing down ramblings of ideas for all kinds of possible or impossible projects... ideas for games, software, businesses... I know some basic programming but not a whole lot, so while these things tend to crystalize over time, they have yet to say "hello world". I have been working on some small hobby game projects, working as a musician/sound guy, but my influence over those projects were pretty much limited to that.
My favourite game is probably Riven, the second game in the Myst series... It's incredibly well designed in almost every way, and like most adventure games there's very little "game" to it (no scores, minimal inventory...). The puzzles don't stand out and scream "PUZZLE!!" as you walk by. Sure, there's a winning state, but that's pretty much the only overtly game-ish element of it. They sure got something right, and I'd love to see new games (or notgames) picking up some of those ideas and adapting it to what's possible today. But hey, this might be a more appropriate topic for another thread.
I guess that's me and where I'm at. I'm looking forward to participating in some interesting discussions here.