I was practically born telling stories.

When I couldn't write yet, I would tell them to my parents and when I learned to write, I would just never stop writing.

Most of my childhood I was an outcast of some sort and most of my time was also spent in fictional universes both my own and other people's.

I became a writer because I love stories and most of the stories that I read never really had people like me as the hero or the sidekick even.

So it was up to me to create those.

My dad was a programmer.

We were, I think, the first in our neighbourhood to have a PC and we would play games together on it and it just was love at first sight.

When I graduated high school, I just didn't really know what to do.

What I did was I just went to work, animal shelter.

I was a dishwasher at a restaurant and I spent most of my other time writing.

Then my mom sent me a link to this university where they made games and I never really thought that was something people could do.

So yeah, I went there.

We went to the open day and

It just felt right.

These were my people.

This was my place.

At first, it seemed like I was the only woman there.

So when I saw another woman, I immediately went up to her and was like, hey, cool tattoo.

And it turned out to be Natalie.

In environments like this, finding another woman is like finding a safe haven.

In the first week, we immediately started with game projects and I ended up being the team leader while I had no idea what I was doing.

And that's when I met Anna.