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.

For professional inquiries, please see the hire me page, which includes a link to my resume.

Everyone else, please enjoy this list of things I like. It’s tacky, but it’s also 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. A Bird Story
2. Analogue: A Hate Story
3. Animal Crossing
4. Aquaria
5. Baldur’s Gate II
6. Borderlands
7. Braid
8. Brittle Blue
9. Catherine
10. Cave Story
11. Dark Souls 1-2
12. Dead Space 1-3
13. Deus Ex: Invisible War
14. Doki Doki Literature Club!
15. Don’t Starve Together
16. Dragon Age: Origins
17. Dungeon of the Endless
18. Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
19. Every Day the Same Dream
20. Fallout 3
21. Fallow
22. FEZ
23. Fire Emblem (Radiant Dawn & Awakening)
24. Firewatch
25. Gone Home
26. Guild Wars 1-2
27. Her Story
28. Ittle Dew
29. Lacuna III
30. Life is Strange
31. Little Red Lie
32. Lost Odyssey
33. Mario Kart (Double Dash & 8)
34. Mass Effect 1-2
35. Massive Chalice
36. Master Reboot
37. Metroid Prime 1-3
38. Neverwinter Nights
39. NieR
40. One Chance
41. Overwatch
42. Oxenfree
43. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
44. Persona 4
45. Quest for Glory I-V
46. Revolution 60
47. Rootless
48. Spec Ops: The Line
49. Super Mario Sunshine
50. Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP
51. Technobabylon
52. The Legend of Zelda (Ocarina of Time, The Wind Waker, & Twilight Princess)
53. The Magic Candle II
54. The Talos Principle
55. Time Fcuk
56. To the Moon
57. Tomb Raider (2013)
58. Torin's Passage
59. Valkyria Chronicles
60. World of Warcraft
61. XCOM: Enemy Unknown
62. Zeno Clash
63. Zero Escape: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors
64. Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward
65. Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma

Anime

1. Attack on Titan
2. Code Geass
3. Death Note
4. Eden of the East
5. Fate
6. FLCL
7. Gatchaman Crowds
8. Gurren Lagann
9. Kill la Kill
10. Knights of Sidonia
11. Land of the Lustrous
12. Little Witch Academia
13. Mushi-Shi
14. Neo Yokio
15. Neon Genesis Evangelion
16. Psycho-Pass
17. Puella Magi Madoka Magica
18. Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-
19. RWBY
20. Serial Experiments Lain
21. Your Lie in April
22. Yuki Yuna is a Hero
23. Yuri!!! On ICE

TV

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

Movies

1. Blame!
2. Brick
3. Dredd
4. Edge of Tomorrow
5. Fish Tank
6. Harry Potter
7. Howl's Moving Castle
8. It Follows
9. Pacific Rim
10. Pandorum
11. Ponyo
12. Princess Mononoke
13. Safety Not Guaranteed
14. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
15. Serenity
16. Spirited Away
17. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
18. The Hobbit
19. The Lord of the Rings
20. Tron: Legacy
21. Your Name

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. The Adventure Zone
4. 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. Illuminae
6. Lilith's Brood
7. My Teacher is an Alien (series)
8. Redwall
9. The Hobbit
10. The Lord of the Rings
11. The Martian
12. Uprooted

Short Stories

1. Lady of the Shard
2. Mona

Tabletop

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

Artists, Critics, etc.

1. Leigh Alexander
2. Liz Ryerson
3. rook