In 1998, I was sitting in my apartment in Boulder, Colorado, about to play The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. I didn’t know it yet, but that game would change the direction of my life. It gave me the resolve to enter the game industry (it took 4 years)—to lead teams, build worlds, create missions, write dialogue, invent tools, define mechanics and work with the latest technology. And share all that with millions of people around the world.