Mario J. Lucero

Heaven Sent Gaming is a studio that started by combining Mario’s writing efforts with his artist wife Isabel‘s personal art studio. Currently, the studio’s work has been featured, mentioned, and cited by Albuquerque Journal, New York magazine, Latino USA, and others. He is the primary editor of aywv.art entertainment journal and the New Mexico Cultural Encyclopedia & Lexicon.

Mario is responsible for writing many of the productions, as well as much of the design aspect. He has made use of his creative talents through his work. He has written for The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, Tokyo Weekender, and Tokyo Review; and his work has been cited by the Arizona State University, Library Freedom Project, Massachusetts Library Association, The University of British Columbia, University of Southampton, and others.

A technologist ever since his mom and dad gave him a Macintosh SE from the rancho his dad worked near Peña Blanca. He has been involved in scientific research, hardware design, and has contributed to various decentralized technologies. Though mostly uncredited in the spirit of decentralization, among the projects he openly took part in include developing an early Bitcoin pseudogame/website called BitcoinDonate, which encouraged crypto donations to charities and worthy causes such as the Red Cross and OpenStreetMap. He participated pro bono in operating crypto web platforms for several hunger-fighting and neurological disease charities. Raised by my grandparents, Joe and Toni, who died after they fought dementia he has worked to bring better Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness.

On a personal level, he is an avid gamer, Mario enjoys titles like Sonic the Hedgehog, Halo, Minecraft, and Super Smash Bros. His faith, shaped by a Catholic upbringing and time at Seventh-Day Adventist schools, now anchors him as an evangelical Christian. He also performs country and New Mexico music under his own name Mario Lucero, and folktronica under the name LE37.