About me

Hello, my name’s Annabelle, though I go by the alias kindofblue28 online.

I’d call myself someone who is very passionate about the arts—though I find the medium of gaming the most interesting medium out there. I believe that games are an underappreciated storytelling medium, and I wish more games with movie- or book-like qualities existed today.

I especially love adventure games and visual novels. Visual novels do a great job of adapting books into a visual form while still letting the reader imagine the inner workings of the story. Adventure games, while sometimes lacking strong narratives, can act as interactive art pieces or offer a look into the psyche of characters and how they interpret the world around them.

I’ve been drawing since I was 10 years old, and I’m passionate about bringing my characters and ideas to life visually. I hope one day to be a creator on the level of people like Goichi Suda or creators from CING such as Rika Suzuki and Taisuke Kanaski. I also enjoy writing and reading novels.

Favorite Pieces of Media

• Faust: Seven Games of the Soul
• Theresia: Dear Emile
• Hotel Dusk: Room 215 and Last Window: Secret of Cape West
• Deadly Premonition: Director’s Cut
• Gadget: Invention, Travel, and Adventure / Gadget: Past as Future
• Kamaitachi no Yoru
• Sayonara wo Oshiete
• Tenshi no Inai 12-gatsu
• Lost Highway
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
• Taxi Driver
• Melmoth The Wanderer
• The Faust mythos and associated works
• Frankenstein
• Novels by Ray Bradbury

Hobbies

• Collecting — check out MyFigureCollection
• Retro computing
• 3D computer graphics — especially prerendered graphics from the '90s and 2000s
• PC game collecting — most of my collection is stored in CD folders
• Kawaii fashion subcultures
• Digital art — I mostly work in Clip Studio Paint