How the hell did we get here, anyway?
Turns out our path is procedurally generated…
The first of us met when we were too young to care about statistics or challenges. Bonding over chess, videogames, and finding more comfort in the less-travelled corridors of school halls than the more populated gathering areas, a bond of imagination and mutual understanding quickly took root. For years, these first two would make plans, share ideas, and build hopes for both their own future and that of gaming, forming an unbreakable connection even though so many of these ideas never left the drawing board. We had no clue that it would lead us to where we are now.
The third would join years later, when we had left the familiar classrooms of high school and briefly diverged paths for college. A similar connection was swiftly established; a shared and slightly twisted sense of humor, a willingness to explore off the beaten path, and to question everything. An insistence on being out of rhythm with the rest of the world, but dancing all the same.
Coming Together
At some point along the way, we realized that the three of us made up a delightfully weird whole. Unpolished, rough around the edges (I call it character), it was something rare, and worth holding onto. Our connection and ambition was never written in the stars or spelled out in an ancient prophecy. We met and stayed together because we were all on side quests. And we still are. We didn’t need to be chasing the same storyline to come together. We built what we were on shared dreams, on trust and understanding, and lots of ADHD. Seriously, this short introduction took almost four hours to write.
We’re still figuring it out, really. This adventure comes to us bit by bit, and we do what we can to write our own stories, both digital and in our day-to-day. But the truth is, the origins of 3Mag are incredibly human, not Triple A, not superstars born and bred, but just a few guys more than willing to embrace the strange, unusual, and unconventional. That’s how it started, and that’s how it will end, but that’s not for a long time. Until then, we have plenty of room for more of the unorthodox, the strange and out of step, those that dance to their own rhythms. We’re only the start of 3Mag, a seed planted. The community is what makes it all what it is, and what it will be, so come on, let’s keep working.
The Seed Sprouts
We started like everyone does: young and naive, with big dreams and no idea how to get there. We are no longer as young, but the rest is still pretty accurate. The biggest difference is that now we’ve begun to kick off into our dreams, to try to make something. And we’re not willing to just let it all go. No one should. Dreams are worth chasing, they’re worth working for, and that’s what we are doing. It starts with small projects, small games with poorly written code. Over time, it will grow, and become more. It’s already showing promise. That promise is the evidence of our hopes, and we’re gonna milk it for all it’s worth!