Heaven Sent Gaming is built on the love and faith of Mario & Isabel Lucero, from Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. High school sweethearts from Sandia View Academy in Corrales since 2004, Isabel is the lead artist and Mario is the lead designer. The vast majority of our art is drawn by Isabel, and Mario is the writer, they express their joy through their creative talents. HSG was first named during a silly conversation, about creating video games together, during a peaceful 2006 birthday celebration for Mario’s nana Antonia “Toni” Lucero, at the former Feast Buffet at Santa Ana Star Casino.
Over the years, with God’s guidance, they have made moves from our Own Little Coo game design team in college in Tempe, Arizona, into a Christian multimedia studio. Today, Heaven Sent Gaming includes their fictional universe, NuMé Foods, the aywv.art journal, and the New Mexico Cultural Encyclopedia & Lexicon
| Studio Name | HEAVEN SENT GAMING |
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| Established | JUNE 15th, 2006 |
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| Motto | “Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.” – 1 Corinthians 9:25 (NIV) |
Studio Name: HEAVEN SENT GAMING
Contact:
- [email protected]
- 3705 ELLISON RD NW
STE B-1 PMB #317
ALBUQUERQUE, NM, USA 87114-7015 - 1 (505) 336-0474
Established: JUNE 15th, 2006
Intellectual Property:
- Heaven Sent Gaming universe media franchise
- NuMé Foods
- aywv.art and entertainment revue
- New Mexico Cultural Encyclopedia & Lexicon
Motto: “Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.” – 1 Corinthians 9:25
Ethics
Heaven Sent Gaming is entirely independent. All of our publications, including aywv and the New Mexico Cultural Encyclopedia & Lexicon, adhere to professional standards such as those set forth by Purdue OWL and SPJ Code of Ethics.
You may freely cite our content for educational and journalistic use, as long as you give attribution with a link to Heaven Sent Gaming or link to the publication you found it in for citation. For other uses, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 should be a good rule of thumb, please contact us if you’d like further info or usage beyond that scope, such as licensing our characters or other aspects of our ficitional universe.
Due to our team’s small size, we cannot respond to all inquiries. For our fiction: Our studio holds more than two decades of original, released and unreleased work that remains in active development and refinement, and we like to work on it at our own pace. We cannot accept unsolicited manuscripts because we do not have a dedicated team to review them, and we proudly produce all of our fiction content in-house. For our non-fiction: We maintain high ethical standards and strict publishing guidelines. We always protect the identities of anonymous sources and verify information through multiple sources whenever possible. Please feel free to contact us regarding corrections or comments related to any of our publications. If necessary, we will publish and clearly highlight corrections or retractions. We have never, and will never, pay for articles or mentions in third-party publications. When we publish or are featured by third-party publications, we do so through honest, industry-standard practices. We do not publish freelance articles on our websites because we currently do not have a commissioning editor. We also do not pay third-party sources for information, helping ensure that our sources remain independent.
Our work predates most generative AI art tools by more than a decade. Some of our publicly available material has been used to train AI systems without our permission. So we understand the frustration many creators feel when their work is used without consent. Because we intentionally keep much of our work publicly accessible by human and bot alike, for archival, educational, and cultural purposes, our material is sometimes falsely flagged as plagiarized or, in some cases, directly plagiarized by others. As for us, we do not use AI to replace creativity. If AI is used at all, it is trained on our own archival data and only in a supporting role, such as editing, organization, digital workstation tasks, loop creation, research assistance, or general workflow support, just as we would with any software we use, such as the Adobe suite, Apple Creator Studio, and Clip Studio Paint. We remain fully committed to creating art as a genuine form of expression, its part of how our founders’ fell in love in the first place.
HSG’s websites proudly use WordPress themes and technology from ILOVEWP, Pagelines, DAHZ, and RAMSTHEMES. In the past we welcomed sponsorship ad-space, and used AdSense, however it went largely unused so we switched to the defunct Project Wonderful, and used to also use Comicad Network. To fill our empty ad space we had added links to charity organizations and former music artists since we had no sponsors; we continue to respect and support the research at Alzheimer’s Disease International, the work of One Laptop per Child, and our dear friends at Life Never Lost. But we currently do not run ads on our sites, mostly due to us seeking less intrusive alternatives.
Our studio is part of the Christian genre and is shaped by our founders’ faith in Jesus Christ, the Holy Bible, and the principles of hope, redemption, love, and the fruit of the Holy Spirit. However, we are not a religious broadcaster or a registered faith-based organization, nor are we affiliated with any particular religious institution or denomination. The work of our founders carries the Gospel message at its core, reflecting the Great Commission to share the Good News with all nations. At the same time, we embrace the principles of free speech and creative expression, warmly welcoming creative talent from all walks of life while crafting content for audiences of many different beliefs and backgrounds to enjoy.
