3D Artist. During this project I've had to work on varying aspects of the art side including creature design, creature construction/texturing/animation and level design/construction/texturing/lighting. I think I enjoy the design aspect of the work as much as the general art side of things..

Good points - Creating something that people don't point and laugh at. The creativeness is an important aspect for me and I hope to keep working on games where creative input is at maximum.

Bad points - Modelling rocks. Not enough time to play the games I want to. Ludicrous hours.

Got press-ganged. I went out drinking one night and I woke up here. ... Help me.

Playing a demo version of the Hellgate game with bugs and test creature AI, in which the creatures fell through walls and floated in the air and the bike could climb rock faces backwards and fire sideways.

Pong (or 'tennis'), on some strange Atari console with a big dial on the front that you used to select your game. I was probably about 5 or 6 years old or something.

Chaos (Spectrum), X-Com UFO Enemy Unknown (Amiga) Civilization II (PC), Sensible Soccer (Amiga - multiplayer). Although I've played many great games in the past and it's particularly difficult to think of just one (or four) these are a few that I seem to remember taking up vast slices of my life either as absorbing single player or entertaining multi-player experiences.

Right this minute it's Red Alert 2 or Quake III over a network. I also enjoyed the Half Life single player game.

Black and White.

Zombies playing golf.

Good games.

Join the army. Serve 15 years and you'll be ready for anything. Grrr.

Failing that, if you want to be an artist then you have to learn a 2D and a 3D computer package and start creating work that you can show people. I don't know of many - if any - companies that offer on the job training.

There is no future for video games, they will eventually be phased out in favour of nanobots which are inserted into the eyes, that then release hallucinogenic toxins into the bloodstream causing you to hyperventilate, have epileptic seizures, and then die. When you die you get to play a game of 'undead pong' where you are actually one of the bats. This is the future.