Patrick Kemp

I'm a veteran video game producer working on a cozy life sim called Spirit Crossing! AMA! #cozygames #gamedev #spiritcrossing #mmo TikTok video by Tami 💙

The start of a new series where I talk about game production and misc industry junk while showing off our game Spirit Crossing!

What do you want to know about video game production? 😀 www.tiktok.com/t/ZThXn91KC/

Plant the grass to power your gun to shoot the shield generator to toss bombs at the spawner!

🤘Existential Treads! Releasing in May!🤘

Check out our demo! store.steampowered.com/app/3580340/...

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It was just one block.

As promised: Faces! 😁 Here's a thread about some technical details for how stylized faces get made in Spirit Crossing. 🧵

The game is inspired by media like Ghibli and BotW, but our faces are unique. There was lots of early discussion about face style & we landed on dot-eyes early...

Tami Lam - Netflix | LinkedIn Producer-shaped person doing the video games thing for 20 years. Nominated for an… · Experience: Netflix · Education: AnimSchool · Location: Irvine · 500+ connections on LinkedIn. View Tami Lam’s prof...

Hey folks so I’m not good at this but, I’m a Sr. Producer seeking work!

💼 20 years of game production XP across Netflix Games/Spry Fox, Bungie, Blizzard, Zynga, Riot Games, and more
⭐️ indie, AAA, PC/console/mobile, 8-400 person teams, internal and ex-dev

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One of my favorite features in the game.

we found that careening off cliffsides into the abyss was decidedly UN-cozy... so we introduced

☁️☁️༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ cloud-surfing ☁️☁️

A little char design thread:

I haven't gotten to do much character design in my career so far, so it was quite fun to get to design a bunch of the NPCs who call Spirit Crossing home.

One thing you learn is that sometimes after 20 different hairstyles, your original plan was not too bad after all

In case you've been like "wow justin sure is posting about Spirit Crossing a lot"- it's because the spinout from Netflix means we are indie once more, and not only that- but are now joining the ranks of employee-owned indie studios! A very big step.

wishlist spirit crossing so you and your friends can hop off your flying alpacas to help strangers mine ore nodes

the hopping is actually ridiculously fun- if you are in a fluffalo follow chain, you can "dismount" hop to where the leader is

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Hi!👋I've been leading character art on Spirit Crossing with @spryfox.bsky.social for the last few years and, as I'm new to BlueSky, I thought I'd try sharing some of the work that's gone into making characters for an MMO over the next few months! Follow if you like characters and lil tech details 😊

a screenshot from the game Spirit Crossing by Spry Fox, in which a number of tiny little blue spirits with large white eyes and small pupils are nesting inside a tunnel. they're staring straight ahead at the viewer while sitting on green grass.

a screenshot from the game Spirit Crossing by Spry Fox, in which a number of tiny little blue spirits with large white eyes and small pupils are hanging out inside a red trolley car. the trolley car rests on lush green grass surrounded by green shrubbery.

a screenshot from the game Spirit Crossing by Spry Fox, in which a number of tiny little blue spirits with large white eyes and small pupils are sitting inside of a tiny grey box truck with moss on it. the truck rests beneath an open garage door, headlights on but not moving.

a screenshot from the game Spirit Crossing by Spry Fox, in which a number of tiny little blue spirits with large white eyes and small pupils are hanging on the wooden boards surrounding an outdoor hot spring.

at Spry Fox, we're interested in designing games that answer meaningful questions and inspire conversation.

..and sometimes that conversation is: what if there were little guys everywhere??

A 16-year-old baby is born! Miracles do happen. After three years under the Netflix umbrella, Spry Fox is once again a fully independent studio. As a studio, we’ve managed to somehow survive countless industry upheavals and release a whole lot o…

Something positive: Spry Fox is spinning out of Netflix. We are independent (once again!) and preparing to launch Spirit Crossing.

We wrote up a little blog post musing about this wild adventure. Worth sharing the good news.
spryfox.com/a-16-year-ol...

One thing I've always been fond of is our windows.

Having contiguous exterior\interior spaces was important to us- but early on we realized interiors needed different ambient light from the exterior to feel properly cozy

I renewed at the West Seattle one recently and it was really smooth. I had an appointment but I saw walk-ins getting served almost as quickly. They've up their UX game!

Great article! I had to re-read your use of "churn" because it's so different from how we use the term in our studio. I think we've sort of back ported churn from the "player turnover" usage for describing planning overhead and turbulence.

A timeline visually representing the advice from my post, emphasising how dramatically and reliably having more time, with a testable build, converts to your game being better and your studio being safer.

I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice:

www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1...

I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.

Yeah, you could even combine it into a single spectrum/meter thing with "Passive" on one end and "Active" on the other, and you shift a needle along it based on your actions. Sort of like a stance-based fighter, only your "stances" are value bands on the meter.

Would they decay, either via time or performing the opposite activity style? Like if stay still to fill my Passive bar, then start running around doing Active-bar stuff, does my Passive bar drop?

Screenshot from the game Spirit Crossing, featuring some little goopy dudes looking at you in the foreground

screenshot from the game spirit crossing, of a store front facing a narrow pedestrian street lit up with some neon bears

screenshot from game spirit crossing of a town square with benches and planters around which are shops and other mid-rise mixed use buildings at sunset.

This type of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in many American cities

(...incidentally, it's very legal in Spirit Crossing)

I hate to ruin the holiday mood but we should really be talking more about the horrible conditions in Lemon Pig factory farms.

A fellow West Seattleite!

Rules of Law Is Ready to Play Our justice says who we are as a people. What do we punish? Do we enforce our laws fairly for everyone? Do we think our system is just? These are big questions about the foundations of society, so of...

You know what tells you a lot about a society? Our LAWS.

What do we punish? Do we enforce them fairly? Do we think our laws are just?

So of course I made world-building game about that…

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Spirit Crossing on Steam Befriend bears, aid lost spirits, ride fluffalo, and build a thriving village with other players in this multiplayer life-sim from the creators of "Cozy Grove." Find endless opportunities to...

BTW, Spirit Crossing is coming to Steam. The goal is to create a major Cozy MMO with a huge population of folks making friends in a safe and welcoming space.

I deeply believe we can make the world a better place.

If this interests you, please wishlist!
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One Cut of the Dead (2017) - Parents guide - IMDb One Cut of the Dead (2017) - Parents guide and Certifications from around the world.

Truly none. Here's a content warning page on IMDb that doesn't spoil anything: www.imdb.com/title/tt7914...

The less you know about it going in the better, but don't stop watching during the first 30 minutes. It pays off.

One Cut of the Dead

Retro Radio is another set that scratched a similar itch for me. It lacks the Game Boy nostalgia, but in terms of building experience and satisfying play features it's very good.

It's so, so good. The way they get all the buttons to articulate in a way reminiscent of the real hardware is inspired. Especially the D-pad!