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I played Dungeon Siege the first time in Baltimore, Maryland, way back in 2002. I'd just moved there to live with my Mom and Sister again after my teens in the Arizona Foster Care System. (longer, completely irrelevant story there). Anyway, I had just turned 18 and my Mom, who has played video games with me since I can remember, had Dungeon Siege on her computer. I moved there in the fall, and that winter was super bad, my first real snowy winter in a big old city, and I didn't leave the house barely at all. I played games, made friends, made music, watched movies, failed to get a job, all without leaving the house. Agoraphobia is something I still feel at times, but that period was the first and worst.

All of my happiest and most inspiring memories of that time come from Dungeon Siege. I tried map making, and even began the first outlines of a project with a person I met on Siege Network. I am surprised, now, to say that code and templating daunted me back then, and I only wanted to write stories and map new adventures into existence. I failed to keep up with my end of that project and it failed, but I did hear from my former creative partner a few months later, and he was mad at me for giving up... I was too. The timing was all wrong I think, and I was nowhere near a healthy head space so, I feel like my excuses don't cause me guilt anymore. Hmmm...

Anyhow, Dungeon Siege and it's mods have been with me ever since, at times when I've had an unhealthy head space I need to clear. This time around, I'm healing in ways I could never have expected or accepted before, and modding Dungeon Siege is a huge part of that, I think, because it represents all the work I've left unfinished, as well as being a relatable analog to real life problem solving.

I read everyone's story that posted, and I feel like you all hit the nail on the head when it comes to describing the moment you fell in love with a game, hopefully I've been able to do the same.
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