-record scratch- -freeze frame- Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got here. Yeah me too.

Anyways, my name is Joe Oliveira, I am an aspiring Game Designer/Developer thats looking to make an impact in the world with my games. I want to create something unique, something that I would be proud of, and proud to show my son. I am following in my own dad’s footsteps, before he passed, he had gotten a degree in Game Development, and he too spent many years working in IT and software engineering. I want to continue his dream of making games.

I have a long standing love of JRPGs and collectathon games from the 90s and early 2000s. Elden Ring (the Souls series as a whole), Pokemon, Banjo Kazooie, Legend of the Dragoon and Chrono Cross are the games that I take the most inspiration from inn how I go about forming ideas.

I have notebooks full of potential game ideas, and an unfortunately large amount of games that havent made it out of prototyping. But if I don’t have a thousand unfinished projects, am I truely me?

I also build PCBs and play card games. Make of that what you will. One game/project im working on is a Tamnagotchi clone that interacts with your PC as well!