The forums get a little stranger

**Simon Strange** · 07-20-2012, 12:43 PM

Hello, my name is Simon Strange.

I'm a game designer - mostly console games starting in the PS1 era, though I've also published a mobile game and have a board game in the works as well. I'm mostly known for making games about Giant monsters - Rampage, Godzilla, etc.

I play a lot of games - I try to finish a new game every Thursday. My best gaming year ever was 2006 - I finished 63 games that year. (I also really like to make lists, sort data, organize things...)

I take my work very seriously - I think games are a huge part of our modern social identity, and they deserve to have really dedicated people working to make them as good as possible.

I keep a personal blog at strangedesign.typepad.com, if you're interested in that sort of thing.

**Sir Legendhead** · 07-20-2012, 12:52 PM

Hey what's up man. Saw your post in our Dtoid Godzilla thread, and that was pretty cool what you did there.

So welcome to the forums! Here is a thing I found just for you.

I also don't do blogs due to my inability to read.

**Panzadolphin56** · 07-20-2012, 01:03 PM

Welcome to the forums!

What do you enjoy outside of videogames? Got a favourite book or movie?

**TurboKill** · 07-20-2012, 08:43 PM

Welcome. I'm going to call you Doctor.

**Simon Strange** · 07-21-2012, 02:17 AM

Originally Posted by Panzadolphin56

What do you enjoy outside of videogames? Got a favourite book or movie?

Ooohh - I love a good icebreaker!

My "favorite" book is Titus Groan, by Mervyn Peake. It's the best use of English ever. It's magnificently dense - I only know one other person who's been able to read it. Not because it's not great - but because it's very difficult to read more than 3 pages in a single day.

For books that are very, very good AND won't suck away years of your life, I was very happy to read the first two books in the Kingkiller series by Patrick Rothfuss - "The Name of the Wind" and "The Wise Man's Fear". So, so good! I love seeing how well all of the little threads of the story were set up from the very beginning - they do a great job of building a world so that you can sometimes be ahead of the characters - a good trick.

As for movies - I see quite a lot of them. Good and bad. My favorites are probably: Abre Los Ojos, Fresh, and Drowning by Numbers. Runners-up include Primer, Blood Simple, Kung Fu Panda, Shaolin Soccer. I also really like romantic comedies - though I can't think of any that I would describe as especially good.

Of course, most of what I do with my life revolves around video games. So I expect to be discussing those a fair amount.