Hello World!
I'm Legends Media

We didn't have any paid games or consoles in our house. My childhood was full of flash, Java and mobile games. I had almost a 100 games on my mother's phone which had like 2 or 4GB space max. I'm still not sure how I achieved that feat having 20mbps internet speeds.

I fondly remember games like Hill Climb Racing, Fireboy Watergirl, Bob the Robber, Papa Louie's games, 3 Pandas, Temple Run, Subway Surfers, Taxi Rush — and there were many more. I absolutely loved playing these and imagining my own story, especially in open world games. In Extreme Car Simulator I would run a taxi service.

But after a point there were just too many games — I started exploring other ways to keep myself entertained.

After being inspired by a lot of movies, I naturally wanted to make my own. I started a YouTube channel in 2018 — wrote, directed and acted in my own videos. (Some shamelessly plagiarised from popular videos.)

They were cringe and had barely 20 views, but it had me learning a lot of the basics: video editing, audio narration, script writing, the acts of a story, lighting, cinematography and a lot of film making principles.

20 views. Barely. But I learned more from those videos than any course could've taught me.

After COVID I found a lot of free time on my hands. Me and my friend were writing a huge "book" (it was more like a screenplay with dialogues) — 10 stories within a story, a project we'd initially started 5 years back then abandoned, now back up again. An anthology sci-fi comedic thriller type epic. While we were working on it, my friend kept asking if we could make a game.

I knew nothing about it and was initially reluctant — my previous attempts at some random free game-making app were just entertainment for a while, then I didn't get much joy. But he kept talking about it and after seeing his first platformer game I got excited. Ok... maybe this thing is good. And the next time he asked if I want to make a game I said sure, let's do it.

I made the art for the game (spillover from the animator era — I was learning pixel art) and he would code it. That was the deal. And on seeing my character — a robot — move on screen with my input. That was bliss. I loved the concept of making games now.

I found a great tutorial series by Brackeys and chose Unity. I didn't know how to code — my most programming-adjacent activity was making webpages with just HTML and CSS. But I followed along, made a cube game. It was so fun. Not the game — that was mid — but the process was so fun. I enrolled in a game jam, the Kindred Jam. I just mindlessly copied the entire code step by step. If I changed anything aside from the theme or art, I was screwed.

Then slowly, I started learning the patterns and the reasoning behind why this line is being coded, how Unity's interface works. I got comfortable enough to start making my own games.

For being an introverted dork stuck inside his house not even playing video games but making them — a career in the defences... yeah, that's not compatible is it. I gotta do something about that.

I never played any sport seriously growing up. I liked running, I liked the concept of working as a team to achieve a common goal. Hmm, goal... that's it, I'm gonna start playing football ⚽.

I suck at everything I start. I barely knew how to kick the ball and I thought I was fair at running — but no. Not for football you're not. I went to an academy to build up the discipline and have a proper learning path. I threw up the first day I went there. The running was too intense. But we pushed through and after like a year — I could kick a ball now 🥲

I thought I would become a baller with master control and slick dribbling. But like, you don't get things that easily do you. I became an average player despite not touching a football just a year prior — the progress is pretty good, I'm pretty proud of that. But in a team game it's not about whether you've improved a lot, it's about whether you play good.

I was pretty consistent till 2025, after which I had to focus more on academics and I quit the academy. After that I went back to my dork era — but even without practice you wouldn't be as bad as before.

Regarding my fitness — I'm built just like Cap. America. Before the serum though.