His artwork and music is present in several video games spanning more than a dozen titles across several console and PC platforms.

He started out on his father's old acoustic guitar trying to play songs like "Enter Sandman" and "The Unforgiven" made popular by Metallica.

[2] He pursued a few different game designs under this company, and with the help of DarkSoft Entertainment, successfully co-published his first title, Empires: Quest for Power on the Excalibur BBS.

Kline toured the local bar scenes with them performing lead / rhythm guitar on original and popular cover songs.

Since 3D art is made up of vertices at its core level, and this is what he spends his time manipulating every day, Kline thought it would be catchy to call himself "VertexGuy".

He prefers treating the title as one word because it is unique enough to make him instantly easy to find in any search engine.

[5] After graduating from college in 2002, Kline moved to Prescott, Arizona to be with his girlfriend, Trina Noelle Cowin, who would soon become his wife.

During this time, Kline worked on his art portfolio and began applying to game studios across the United States.

[6] During his time at FarSight Studios, Kline quickly adapted and assumed a natural leadership role, taking on a great deal of responsibility.

Though this did not seem to be a very popular category, Kline began posting guitar renditions of various classic video game themes.

Shortly after, he decided to take one of the game themes he covered (John Petrucci’s Necronomicon: Epiloque) and post it on YouTube.