Ana Reis Alceu Da Cruz Antunes

Besides my love for games and gaming, I love to learn new things, from crafting to digging into topics to starting way too many hobbies. I have just started taking the first steps at learning how perfumes are made for example, which hopefully will not turn into a full-blown hobby for the sake of my wallet (and brain). To relax, lately I’ve picked up reading again. Excessively so maybe, but I find joy in being immersed in a compelling story! However I mostly relax by walking around, discover a city and it’s many secrets, always with my camera attached!

_Favourite Game

Portal 2

_Favourite Book

Circe by Madeline Miller

_Currently Learning

How to make perfumes, how to program an app to create word puzzles, how to adapt to Portugal

Questions & Answers

Earliest gaming memory

Answer

I’m not quite sure which one is the earliest, but the two ones from my childhood I clearly remember is sitting down with my dad watching him play his ancient Magnavox Odyssey 2 (which he sinfully later recycled when we moved houses), or trying to sabotage my cousins hospital in Theme Hospital.

What was the game that triggered you looking at games as a career?

Answer

Portal. I was introduced to it during University, and I did skip too many classes just to replay it back then. It made me start questioning how games were made, which opened the path of me becoming a game developer.

What did you study at School or Uni that you feel was valuable for a career in games?

Answer

Everything. Started in Software Engineering, eventually transitioning into Game Development and Game Design specialisation. All prepared me somewhat for a career in games in some way. Despite not being perfect.

Game that has inspired you the most?

Answer

As a Game Designer, Portal for sure. Purely for how elegant it is mechanically and how much they achieved through the Portal Gun.

What is the first game you worked on?

Answer

An unreleased game in partnership with Wargaming

Games you’re the proudest to have worked on?

Answer

An unreleased H. R. Giger-ish well established sci-fi horror-action franchise where humans fight against 2 ruthless species of intergalactic hunters, who also fight amongst themselves

If you weren't making games?

Answer

I’d find a way into I’d probably run a coffee shop/book shop/plant shop.

Top 3 games of all time?

Answer

#1 - Portal 2 #2 - Breath of the Wild #3 - Red Dead Redemption 2

Hardest game boss?

Answer

The final boss in the original Borderlands. It ended up being mostly a bullet sponge

_TIME REMAINING