WINTERYEAR

Matthew was a child prodigy with computers. He was obsessed with them as soon as he realized what they were. In the 4th grade he often built computers out of wood blocks in day care, as hilarious as it was to bystanders at the time, it would only mark his lifelong obsession of technology... Although his family was not financially able to own a computer, his aunt had recently purchased a family computer. A 133mhz Pentium-1 Packard Bell running Windows 95. Matthew and his cousin would stay up until dawn each night as his cousin taught him to program the Commodore-64 and showed him Qbasic. Around this time, Quake was released which immediately hooked Matthew on the possibility of stylistic, creative and innovative video games. Not far after, QuakeWorld was released and along with GameSpy, Matthews obsession to gaming was peaked at this very moment... At age 10, after being hacked in an IRC chatroom, embarassingly by the trojan horse NetBus, Matthew became further obsessed with..