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I'm Legends Media

I liked the idea that there was an instrument that let me play music without having to master the basics for years. (No shade to violinists.)

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.

Around the same time, I got really into animation. I loved all forms of it – Flipbooks, Stop Motion, 2D Hand drawn, Computer generated. And upon this journey I came across a peculiar piece of software called Blender.

I saw the first Blender Guru 🙏 tutorial and installed version 2.79. Wow this looks cool, and it’s free and open source (I didn’t know what open source meant but sure, must be a good thing). I started watching tutorials left and right – modelling, rigging, animating, keyframes, materials, modifiers, rendering, mesh geometry, physics rigidbody simulations, particles.

And the director peeped in again. I tried to make many short films in Blender. I had an idea, I’d get to modelling. it would look kinda crap,  so I’d just give up.

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.

When I saw edutainers on YouTube like Veritasium, Kurzgesagt, 3Blue1Brown, I saw a beautiful field full of logic and brilliant thinkers. The laws of physics haven’t changed but our understanding has brought about so much innovation and progress.

The piano is one of the most beautiful and complex engineering marvels in terms of instruments. Seeing planes fly over my head every day I think if human brilliance can make us fly, soar across the sky, break the barrier and say that sky is not the limit, it can solve everyday problems.

My love for electronics coincided with my game dev passion. Embedded systems and controlling circuits was literally magical. You’re telling me there are electrons inside this wire arranged in a way that creates current and the same electricity that operates my light, fan and refrigerator is responsible for running my computer that’s doing millions of calculations based on just turning on and off current. And it makes calculations, simulations, animations, games work in real time, and also operates fiber optic cables transmitting information across continents, powering the games I’d been playing and connecting people of all nationalities, age, gender and class to provide happiness and education.

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.

There’s a common theme in all my hobbies I consume something (lots of it), then switch over and think how can I produce this? I learn new territories, explore, create a few things, then move on to the next thing but carry over the knowledge of the previous ones.

All of these belong in the same space if you think about it that way but for me they are quite distinct fields. You can also observe the trend of interests coming in cycles.

So the music era begins again. I wanted to make music and just jamming around on my trusted keyboard, I got a tune I liked. I tried out a few DAWs free trial of FL Studio, Reaper, following my earlier explorations with Chrome Music Lab. I had a groovy tune but FL Studio told me exporting requires premium. Dam. Plan foiled.

I tried out Cakewalk by BandLab, made a jazz lofi track and showed it to a few close people and they kinda liked it! Wow. Maybe I can also explore music. So I started making music whenever I had free time to take a break from academics and to keep the creative side going.

(There are a lot of overlaps between these eras I’d used Bosca Ceoil for game music way back, Chrome Music Lab before that. The boundaries are blurry. Always were.)

No idea. That’s the fun part. Interests keep changing, that’s what keeps us fresh.