I'm currently working on a number of licensed titles for cell phone and TV games, including Nicktoons, Dragonball Z, and Warner Brothers.

Laura Schumacher was born in Seattle 24 years ago, and spent the first ten of those years living in the suburbs and summering in Yakutat, Alaska with her family.

Some of Laura's earliest memories involve her sister's ColecoVision, which she played (or tried to anyway) before she could walk. Laura has always known that she wanted to work in games, especially console games. In middle school and early high school, she was dubbed the 'Nintendo Queen' and friends would call her up for help when they were stuck in any Mario Bros. game.

Nowadays, she's still in the same suburbs she grew up in, creating games and having a blast doing it.

I get inspired by all sorts of things - a fascinating book, a strange character I meet in passing, something beautiful in nature. Most of what I create comes from random unfocused doodling, which is my favorite way to generate ideas.

That's easy - Final Fantasy. In fact, everything by Square just blows me away.

I'm a Nintendophile from way back... well, actually it all started with my older sister's ColecoVision. Picked it up as soon as I could wrap my fingers around a joystick and I've been hooked ever since.

I love my Wacom tablet, and I'm addicted to Photoshop.

It's a toss-up between 1984, Brave New World, and Animal Farm. I'm a sucker for anything concerning apocalyptic situations, dystopian societies, or really, really big disasters.

That's a tough one - I've watched American Psycho more times than I can count, but recently I'm most fond of The Secretary and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.