Thanks for stopping by my blog and portfolio page! My name is Matthias Worch, and I am a game designer with over 10 years of experience in the videogame industry. I'm originally from Germany, but now live in the San Francisco Bay Area with my wife Victoria.
On this page you'll find my game development portfolio, a collection of Opinions That Might Not Matter (the blog), downloads for my free 3D levels and my game development lectures/articles, and a page dedicated to my videos.
If you're wondering where the blog title came from, look no further than Simon Pegg's and Edgar Wright's brilliant 2004 movie Shaun of the Dead. I used to have various non-sequitors in the title bars of my old page, and this was one of them (another favourite was "Oh good! My dog found the chainsaw!" from Lilo & Stitch). The phrase seemed fitting - I have made a living of creating oh-so-bloody first person shooters, and Shaun of the Dead was the first movie my wife and I ever watched together.
I saw this in the newspaper and immediately had to Google it, post it to my webpage, and let all my Facebook friends... Read more
You can watch the high-res version of this video on the official Dead Space page. Read More
Important lessons to learn for game development (and many other walks of life). Read More
This year marked the first time since its inception that Victoria and I didn’t... Read more
Just like every year, we’re getting closer to the anual Toyota/Savemart... Read more