name: W. Thomas Grové 　トーマス・グロヴェイ
current location: San Francisco, CA
home towns: Columbus, OH; Evanston, IL; San Francisco, CA
other places I've lived: Bermingham, MI; Colombo, Sri Lanka; Singapore
member: Lotek, Acid, Studio Interrupt, Mu Mei Ji
aliases: Lion-Gv, Lion Lotek, Grover, Lithium Ion, D-Tao
other given names: Thabonyana (Sesotho language)
date of birth: March 16, 1979

photo of lion-gv by Aaron Shinn, 2000

I love creating and enabeling others to create. I work as a game designer and a creative director/producer in the video game industry. I'm currently freelancing through my label Studio Interrupt and serving as the Chief Creative Officer for Core Talent Games. For more details please check out the rest of my website!

Interests:
- Misc: zen (practice, historical figures, and aesthetics), kung fu, kendo, scuba diving, skiing, rock climbing, reading
- Design: graphic/sound/architecture/fashion/infrastructure/game
- Japanese animation: especially by Studio Ghibli, Production I.G., Sunrise, Gainax, Madhouse. I particularily like Monster and Gundam.
- Films directed by: Takeshi Kitano, Oshii Mamaru, Stephan Chow, Wong Kar Wai, Terry Gilliam, the Coen brothers, Jim Jarmusch, Shinichiro Watanabe
- Music styles: drum and bass, detroit techno, minimal and atmospheric techno, west london (new jazz, broken beat), electro, italla disco, hip hop
- Composers: Hisashi Joe, Kanno Yoko, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Richard D. James, 4 Hero, Maurizio, Teebee, Adam F, J Majik, Burial
- Philosophers: Ken Wilber, Lao Tsu, Nagarjuna, Takuan Soho, Brook Ziporyn, Menchious
- Computers: their culture, structure, and application
- Authors: William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Masamune Shirow, Ursula K. Leguin, Katsuhiro Otomo, Eiji Yoshikawa, see philosophers above

My Favorite Video Games:
- Games with lots of replay value: Action Quake II (PC), Armored Core 2 (PS2), Super Street Fighter II HD Remix (XBLA, PSN), Virtua Fighter/Dead or Alive, Way of the Samurai
- Games with less replay value: Resident Evil 4 (Game Cube), Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, Fire Emblem (GBA), God of War (PS2), Ico (PS2), Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner (PS2), Lost Winds (Wii), Okami (Game Cube)
- Games that might have replay value, depending on your personality: Ghost In The Shell (PS1), Bit Generations: Orbital (GBA), Parrappa Rapper (PS1), Rez (PS2), Gitaroo Man (PS2/PSP)
- Nostalgia: Blue Blink (PC Engine), Cadash (PC Engine), Metal Stoker (PC Engine), Super Mario Bros (NES), Quake 1 (PC), Doom (PC), Wolfenstein 3D (PC), Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (PC), Under A Killing Moon (PC), Alone in the Dark (the first one, PC), Skyfox (Apple II)