Heaven Sent Gaming is a media and arts team from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Founded in 2006 by High-School Sweethearts Mario Lucero and Isabel Lucero, the two are now married. The team first started by making video game related productions, then moved on to music, comics, web-serial novels, and eventually everything else.
They were a part of a larger game design team in Pheonix, Arizona, college, called Our Own Little Coup, but after a year they returned to New Mexico to run the company themselves. They eventually began to work with local music artists, like Life Never Lost to help them produce music. Soon after the Reverie comics, and over time everything else followed.
Unlike most of their Christianity-centric media compatriots, Heaven Sent Gaming has worked with several people that could be seen as "controversial." Including transgender activist DH Torkavian, fanservice artist Ehryel (X-Arielle), and atheist Jason Waggoner. Regardless of who they're working with, HSG has never shied away from the topic of Christianity (or fallen into the Jesus Taboo), and is always Proud to Be a Geek especially about Jesus.
Works include:
- Reverie, first released in 2010, part of Slice-of-Life Webcomics, is about the day-to-day lives of five Humanoid Aliens.
- Thad's World Destruction: Before Destruction, first released in 2011, is a Life Embellished Very Loosely Based on a True Story OEL Manga that has seen more success in Japan than it has elsewhere.
- Karis, first released in 2011, a couple of female angels living on earth.
- BladeChick, first released in 2012, is a Superhero webcomic.
- Mouton, first released in 2012, is a Superhero webcomic.
- Jinn, first released in 2012, is a Gotta Catch 'Em All webcomic.
- Koki'o Shade and Monkey, first released in 2013, is a Samurai and Ninja webcomic. These Political Cartoons follow Barack Obama as a Samurai and George W. Bush as a Ninja in a Buddy Cop Show-type situation.
- Balance, released in 2007, their first project as a college video game design team.
- Thirst, announced in 2014, a Fantasy Tabletop RPG.
- Many: The Blog of a Space Probe, first released in 2011, Web Serial Novel by Mario Lucero.
- Iron, first released in 2011, Web Serial Novel by Mario Lucero.
- Craft, first released in 2011, Web Serial Novel by Mario Lucero and Isabel Lucero.
- digitalDomain, first released in 2012, Web Serial Novel by Jason Waggoner.
- Mario's vlog, first released in 2011, Vlog Series.
- HSGplays, first released in 2011, Let's Play.
- aywv, first released in 2009, Video Games news website.
- New Mexico Cultural Encyclopedia, Lexicon, and News, first released in 2015, website about the culture of New Mexico.
Heaven Sent Tropes:
- As the Good Book Says...: Their slogan is a Bible text, 1 Corinthians 9:25, which says "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."
- Schedule Slip: Extremely guilty of this, their fan-base has been referred to as Heaven Sent "saints", as it takes the patience of a saint to await new content from them.
