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Hey, I’m Matt. I used to have a bunch of text here about who I am, but I think my work is all that matters, and it pretty much speaks for itself.

Instead, I’ve made a list of things I like. It’s tacky, but it’s probably more honest than anything I’d write in a standard bio. Everything is listed alphabetically; I’m not ranking these. Here we go:


Games

  1. Animal Crossing
  2. Aquaria
  3. Baldur’s Gate II
  4. Borderlands
  5. Braid
  6. Catherine
  7. Cave Story
  8. Dark Souls 1-2
  9. Dead Space 1-3
  10. Deus Ex: Invisible War
  11. Don’t Starve Together
  12. Dragon Age: Origins
  13. Dungeon of the Endless
  14. Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
  15. Fallout 3
  16. Fallow
  17. FEZ
  18. Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
  19. Gone Home
  20. Guild Wars 1-2
  21. Her Story
  22. Ittle Dew
  23. Lacuna III
  24. Life is Strange
  25. Lost Odyssey
  26. Mario Kart (Double Dash & 8)
  27. Mass Effect 1-2
  28. Massive Chalice
  29. Master Reboot
  30. Metroid Prime 1-3
  31. Neverwinter Nights
  32. NieR
  33. Overwatch
  34. Oxenfree
  35. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
  36. Persona 4
  37. Quest for Glory I-V
  38. Revolution 60
  39. Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP
  40. Technobabylon
  41. The Legend of Zelda (Ocarina of Time, The Wind Waker, & Twilight Princess)
  42. The Magic Candle II
  43. The Talos Principle
  44. Time Fcuk
  45. Tomb Raider (2013)
  46. Torin's Passage
  47. Valkyria Chronicles
  48. World of Warcraft
  49. XCOM: Enemy Unknown
  50. Zero Escape: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors
  51. Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward
  52. Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma

Anime

  1. Attack on Titan
  2. Code Geass
  3. Death Note
  4. Eden of the East
  5. Fate (stay night: Unlimited Blade Works & Zero)
  6. FLCL
  7. Gatchaman Crowds
  8. Gurren Lagann
  9. Kill la Kill
  10. Knights of Sidonia
  11. Mushi-Shi
  12. Neon Genesis Evangelion
  13. Psycho-Pass
  14. Puella Magi Madoka Magica
  15. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-
  16. RWBY
  17. Serial Experiments Lain
  18. The OA
  19. Your Lie in April
  20. Yuki Yuna is a Hero
  21. Yuri!!! On ICE

TV

  1. Angel
  2. Bee and Puppycat
  3. Bravest Warriors
  4. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  5. Doctor Who
  6. Firefly
  7. Game of Thrones
  8. Gilmore Girls
  9. iZombie
  10. Orange is the New Black
  11. Sense8
  12. Stranger Things
  13. The OA
  14. Veronica Mars
  15. Westworld

Movies

  1. Blame!
  2. Brick
  3. Edge of Tomorrow
  4. Fish Tank
  5. Harry Potter
  6. Howl's Moving Castle
  7. It Follows
  8. Pacific Rim
  9. Pandorum
  10. Ponyo
  11. Princess Mononoke
  12. Safety Not Guaranteed
  13. Serenity
  14. Spirited Away
  15. The Hobbit
  16. The Lord of the Rings

Music

  1. Grimes
  2. Marina and the Diamonds
  3. OverClocked ReMix
  4. rook
  5. Tegan and Sara
  6. The J. Arthur Keenes Band
  7. The Robot Knights
  8. Wednesday Campanella

Podcasts

  1. Idle Thumbs
  2. Playscape: Los Angeles
  3. Welcome to Night Vale

Books

  1. Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (game manual)
  2. Gone Girl
  3. Harry Potter
  4. His Dark Materials
  5. Lilith's Brood
  6. My Teacher is an Alien (series)
  7. Redwall
  8. The Hobbit
  9. The Lord of the Rings
  10. The Martian
  11. Uprooted

Short Stories

  1. Lady of the Shard
  2. Mona

Tabletop

  1. Android: Netrunner
  2. Magic: The Gathering
  3. PSI*RUN
  4. Race for the Galaxy
  5. Betrayal at House on the Hill

Artists, Critics, etc.

  1. Leigh Alexander
  2. Liz Ryerson
  3. rook