name: W. Thomas Grové
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

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. For more details please check out the rest of my website!

Interests:
- Misc: zen, 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, Satoshi Kon
- Music styles: drum and bass, detroit techno, minimal and atmospheric techno, west london (new jazz, broken beat), electro, italla disco, hip hop
- Composers: Giacomo Puccini, 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
- Authors: William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Masamune Shirow, Ursula K. Leguin, Katsuhiro Otomo, Eiji Yoshikawa, Eiichiro Oda

My Favorite Video Games:
- Games with lots of replay value: Action Quake II, Armored Core 2, Street Fighter, Samurai Showdown, Virtua Fighter, Dead or Alive, Way of the Samurai, Ghost In The Shell, Bit Generations: Orbital, Parrappa Rapper, Rez, Gitaroo Man
- Games with less replay value: Resident Evil 4, Bayonetta, Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, Fire Emblem, God of War, Ico, Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner, Lost Winds, Okami
- 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)