oldmanofthefire

abyssal fugue

lovely

places

compelling style

ah man this stuff is such fun to work on

old prototype, from the vast pile of old prototypes

and I'm sorry to hear it, also. That's tough

man, this is the real stuff you're talking about. Folks talk about art in a vacuum but it exists inside of a whole life. I can relate, have a 3 year old + 1 year old, and taking care of folks dying prematurely. But the art in you doesn't die—I think it actually evolves in important ways

hey it's a journey, it'll circle back. Sounds like you're solving a problem related to the other thing you want to do. When that integrates with the earlier you it'll be powerful

👆this is something I've appreciated about your work. It seems to expand the common conception of what video games need to be / feel like / look like. And as a young medium it needs that, to grow mature and rich like other longstanding forms of art.

there are some things put all other things into sudden perspective

Kid Blocks by oldmanofthefire Just like when you were little.

u can haz oldmanofthefire.itch.io/kidblocks

kid blocks

that's very kind. I've always appreciated your playful approach to your work!

places

somehow I've missed all your latest stuff—it's hot

though with most of my ideas it is about 80% a mood and 20% how it actually functions, so that's the real thing to prototype

fortunately making little games like this for over 10,000 years means I should be able to pull some pieces together rather quickly and test it out

I've gotten a lot of mileage out of using Disk Inventory X to interrogate where all my space is going.

But how iCloud does or does not offload studf to the cloud is mysterious to me.

I rebound most shortcuts to match Unity--switching back and forth was driving me nutty.

so good

somehow getting tony hawk meets blast corps vibes

so good

beautiful work

done, feels great, no notes

yeah it's funny, I was referencing a totally different picture, but a lot of these shots are pretty darn similar