Heaven Sent Gaming

Heaven Sent Gaming was built on the love and faith of Mario & Isabel Lucero, from Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. High school sweethearts 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 no longer existent Santa Ana Pueblo buffet.

Later HSG joined a game design team called Our Own Little Coo, during the longsuffering days of college in Tempe, Arizona. By 2010, we had left college and expanded into music production, blogging, video game journalism, and comic strips. A teammate from the Our Own Little Coo days rejoined HSG in 2013 as editor, Jason Waggoner.

With God’s grace, we’ve grown gently since then, and are now a multimedia production studio. Focusing on our own Heaven Sent Gaming universe media franchise, NuMé Foods, the aywv arts and entertainment journal, and the New Mexico Cultural Encyclopedia & Lexicon.

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 the Associated Press Style Guide and SPJ Code of Ethics. We agree with what is said on NPR’s ethics page, and are “challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of events, ideas, and culture”. Due to our team’s small size, we cannot respond to all inquiries.

We adhere to the standards embraced by the institutions we have worked with, or been cited by: (in alphabetical order) Albuquerque Journal, Albuquerque the Magazine, Arizona State University, Industry Insider by International Music Summit, KRQE (CBS / Fox), Mashed, Microsoft, Stateline by Pew Charitable Trusts, Quartz, South by Southwest, Spectrum Magazine, Tokyo Review, Tokyo Weekender, University of British Columbia, University of Southampton, University of Washington, and others. 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 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. Our websites are archived on the Internet Archive.

For our fiction: We cannot accept unsolicited manuscripts, because we don’t have a dedicated team to go through any of them, also we proudly produce all of our content in-house. For our non-fiction: We have high values for our ethics and we have strict publishing guidelines, but we always protect the identities of anonymous information sources, so we verify information with multiple sources. Please feel free to reach out to us for corrections or comments for any of our publications, if ever, we will publish and highlight corrections or retractions. We have never, and will never, pay for articles or mentions in third party publications. We don’t publish third party paid articles on our websites. We do not pay third party sources for information.

Our websites proudly use WordPress themes from ILOVEWP, Pagelines, and DAHZ. 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 now use Comicad Network. To fill our empty ad space we used to add 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.

While our studio is indeed a part of the Christian genre, fortified with our founders’ faith in Jesus Christ, fruit of the Holy Spirit, God’s blessing, and the Holy Bible. We are not a religious broadcasting or faith-based organization, as we aren’t affiliated with any religious institutions or denominations. We have always welcomed creative talents regardless of religion or identity, and our creations are made for people of all creeds to enjoy. Our two founders are from across the political spectrum, left and right, and we do not collectively cosign to any particular political ideology. We are an independent institution, and by happenstance we have minority and female leadership.