My invention was stolen, but the thieves forgot that I owned the copyright and had to pay me $35,000.

A couple of years ago, when I was 18, I got my degree in game development.

It's a four-year track with the last year being four months' internship, and four months to work on a test of skill. This is a project that you can think

up yourself to prove that you're capable in game development. I just had my internship at a very

small game studio, which was just two women. Let's call them B and C. You might later want to amend

this to B word and C word. They both specialized in 3D model making and 2D art, textures, graphics, that kind of stuff.

Neither of them was a programmer, so they got interns to program stuff for them.

I was kind of disappointed as I had no experienced programmer to learn from or to guide me,

but this was my only option since I started

looking for an internship too late. B and C were kind of nasty and condescending in their language use.

I didn't stand up for myself much. I was always just kind of a fat nerd and had no self-confidence

coming out of high school or college. What was cool was that they were located in an incubator,

which is like a large office building that rents

for like 50 euros a month instead of floors,

great for start-ups and single-person companies.

As a cherry on top, it was also an incubator that specialized in game companies. So, lots of contacts

and opportunities to meet people in the industry. I had fun there, at first, they'd already

started on a project and I asked them what system they wanted me to make. Like inventory,

menus, or gameplay elements, they had an idea of what they wanted. It was a game for kids that

used augmented reality. AR is quite difficult to make. And they didn't want to use APIs from

companies that had already made the AR system, because that would cost too much money. So for three

out of the four months I was there, I built my own AR system. It was

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