james martini

amazing I’m glad to be spreading the good word

Save 25% on BYTE on Steam To live for all eternity is hard. To love for all eternity is even harder. You play as Jonathan Harker, Dracula’s real estate agent, completing work tasks while exploring the castle, speaking with its...

also play byte obviously. It’s like at least tangentially cyberpunk

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byte’s out now(🧛‍♀️) but there are lots of punk movies I never got to so here are my letterboxd reviews of four final certified punk! classics™️

- Ikebukuro West Gate Park (2000, show)
- Repo Man (1984)
- Linda Linda Linda (2005)
- Velvet Goldmine (1998)

I think I just made a critical blunder of trying to release during the autumn sale so all the sale/refund requests were getting prioritized. They responded to my ticket within an hour of the sale ending lol

YEESSSSSS ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Thanks! at like 2pm they responded to my support ticket asking me to try again and when that didn’t work a few hours later I got a note saying that the issue was fixed and it worked. idk what’s going on but it seems like they need to fix it on their end. good luck!!!! 🙏🙏🙏

The real joke about a steam bug delaying my release to October 6th is that for like a year and a half I was planning an October 6th release and then moved it up to the 1st so really Steam is just holding me to my plan exactly

Save 25% on BYTE on Steam To live for all eternity is hard. To love for all eternity is even harder. You play as Jonathan Harker, Dracula’s real estate agent, completing work tasks while exploring the castle, speaking with its...

PLAY BYTE NOOWWWW

At long last BYTE is out now on Steam for you to buy, download, and play at will!!!

#byte #indiedev #indiehorror

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Day 5(!!!!!) of waiting for steam to respond to me. today you should watch hackers. It’s maybe the most famous punk movie and it’s awesome. Just wall to wall 90s hacker names and rollerblades

Day 4 today’s movie is slc punk. it’s my favorite punk movie and one of my all-time favorite movies. this typically gets a little underrated in punk movie rankings because it starts out with the usual punk movie absurdity but ends shockingly honestly and seriously. I love the ending tho

Day 3 of not being able to release byte until Steam gets back to me. Today you should watch brass knuckle boys. It’s written AND directed by the great Kankuro Kudo and it understands 21st century punk on a level I haven’t seen anywhere else (except other Kudo works)

In hindsight the delayed support response probably has to do with the steam sale (it seems like the amount of support requests doubled from 9/29 to 9/30) so note to self don’t release your game in the middle of a major steam sale next time

Still no response from Steam support so instead I’ll just post about punk movies I’ve been watching lately until byte is out. This image is from wild zero, a 1999 zombie movie that is mostly an excuse for Japanese noise rock band guitar wolf to break stuff and scream about the power of rock and roll

An image of guitar wolf, from the band guitar wolf, in the movie wild zero, saying “Believe in rock’n’roll!”

Steam still has not gotten back to me about the error (bug?) blocking me from releasing byte so I’m choosing to follow the wise words of my hero guitar wolf and believe in rock and roll in order to get this game out there

On a related note, if anyone knows what to do about the error steam throws when trying to release that says “No video files have been uploaded for this trailer” lmk

Actively trying to release byte but steam is just throwing an error and their support team hasn’t gotten back to me. promise the game is coming out imminently, but steam is not making it easy

byte comes out in two days!! as part of a retrospective exercise, I wrote a little (kinda big) blog post about how byte came to be, what it is, and how I feel about it if you want to see more behind the scenes of the game

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Book Club Issue #3: Session: Skate Sim Full title, "Session: Skate Sim reminds me that video games are a corporate shithole cosplaying as art", but that's kinda long

finally got around to releasing the little (big) substack post I wrote a couple months ago about skateboarding games and how much they all annoy me
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The album cover for twenty one pilots’ new album “Breach”, from the Digital Remains version

Back in 2018 I wrote a concept for a twenty one pilots fan game based on the Trench story. Over the years that merged with other ideas to become BYTE, so it’s surreal that their “conclusion” to the trench story released three weeks before BYTE. A real full circle moment for me. Good album too |-/

an EXTREMELY low resolution image of the chapel in byte where Jonathan is just barely recognizable from the eight pixels that compose his tie

still avoiding looking at the internet because that’s where the true horrors lie but popping back in to say that byte releases in one month from today!!! I’ll be posting more updates and info this month but for now enjoy 180p Jonathan thanks to the new resolution settings 👾🧛‍♀️👾

#indiedev #indiehorror

Chill Games with Gee & Boba | Tiny Teams 2025 YouTube video by The Yogscast

I’m a little late on the announcement but BYTE is live on the Tiny Teams showcase right now!! Check it out here!!!

#tinyteams2025

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Check out BYTE (and all the other cool games) in Tiny Teams right now!!! 🧛‍♀️🩸🧛‍♀️🩸🧛‍♀️

#tinyteams2025

The official Tiny Teams selection key art for BYTE

I’ve been busy not being online lately but I’m super excited to share that BYTE is going to be included in this week’s @tinyteamsfest.bsky.social Steam event from August 7th-14th!! Stay tuned for a new demo update and keep an eye on the official streams to see BYTE in action 🧛‍♀️🩸🧛‍♀️
#tinyteams2025

The meme from @BronMuse on twitter that involves variations of the phrase “They said you’re washed 6” and ending with “How will you respond 6” and a picture of lebron james

Very thrilled to get to use one of my favorite sports copypastas for this one. Who is Jonathan Harker if not the lebron of real estate anyway?

They said you can’t write emails, Harker.

They said you have no charisma, Harker.

They said you can’t buy a property, Harker.

They said you’ll never make it in NYC, Harker.

How will you respond, Harker?

Help Jonathan prove the haters wrong in BYTE’s demo right now: s.team/a/2946750/

I’ve got my game, BYTE, in next fest right now! It’s a persona-inspired tactics-rpg/visual novel based on Dracula 🧛‍♀️🧛‍♀️🧛‍♀️

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(it’s not actually breakfast time I forgot to post this in the morning)

It’s breakfast time, let's all gather around Nyssa to bless our meal.

Uh…..oh…..uh…..okay.

I guess that was nice…

BYTE demo available on Steam now! s.team/a/2946750/

#IndieGame #IndieHorror

I just finalized my release date for October 1st so it’ll be out soon too 🙌🙌🙌

BYTE is in this month’s Next Fest with a new demo that showcases some brand new FMV!

I shot all the videos in Oregon recently and they’re used in addition to 3D diorama scenes in some of the game’s cutscenes. Take a look here and check it all out in the demo now!

#indiegame

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