When Tyler Dies goes to work each day, he steps into a workshop where the air is thick with the heat of a blazing forge.

Blacksmithing is quite a commonly seen side ... but there's no way you'd get me to do that in a video game. Enter Blades of Fire, a game where smithing is a central mechanic.

“Forging soul into steel” — that’s the motto of artist blacksmith and bladesmith Owen Bush. Working out of his forge in Welling, Kent, Owen lives out his passion for hot working of metals.