Vice: Magic City Mayhem with Matt Schulz | The Gamerheads Podcast

yeah yeah so uh that's not a traditional path um or kind of traditional in a way uh so i grew up in south florida i'm a florida kid um with a c average uh grade point so uh not not really technically savvy or anything like that growing up we honestly were on the poor end but we were on the lower middle class end and didn't have any computers really until i went to college um so we're on dial-up and dsl and all that other fun stuff and uh you know trying to figure it out so um went to school here in florida there's a university called full sail uh full sail alum um again being close to home in south florida it's like okay well this sounds like the only place i have an option to go to so um Just grew up loving video games and, you know, the typical story, you know, there's a Zelda and a GTA and Mortal Kombat out there for everyone.

But those are my kind of influences because I played a lot with my brother.

So we'd always play opposites, you know, the gold or silver or the Oracle of Seasons to Oracle of Ages for Zelda.

So that's where I got my gaming start, if you will, was all that kind of stuff.

But from going to Full Sail throughout college, learned entertainment business and game development from that, which I was able, luckily able to pick it up pretty quick and kind of understand how technology works and how the game business works in a way.

And then from there, jumped over to military simulation, actually.

So I got my start in making Unreal Engine 4 Navy ships for the

government.

Oh, my gosh.

Yeah.

So it's the same thing as game development in all senses, except your publisher is the government and the games are wicked boring that run over with.

So there's that.

From there, moved on to Telltale Games.

So, you know, Walking Dead, Guardians, Batman, stuff like that.

And I was on a Stranger Things project there for a short bit before the last happened in 2018.

So I was caught up in all that.

But luckily, while I was there, I worked with external development teams such as Mindwalk and Virtuous and Sparks.

And years later, I'm at Virtuous now.

So I kind of came full circle a little bit there.

But in between that was EA on Madden.

So I was a producer for Madden for a couple of game cycles and doing all that fun stuff.

So working...

Almost, you know, top tier AAA big things all the way down to obviously my little indie studio with Jurassic Sunset.

So I felt like I got a breadth of all the things.

But it's been about roughly 10 years now.