Professor Brink

So if you follow the work I do, than you are aware I was working on a Pokemon/H.P. Lovecraft styled homage called The Contaminos. As my efforts stalled and my back was playing up I found myself unable to focus on this topic anymore and eventually I found myself working on other games to try and stretch my brain a bit in order to return. This ended up driving me to feel more fulfilled with more flexibility to make two new Twine based games and a new release called “The Werewolf Ninja.” At first what was initially an experiment to see if I could run a browser based game, I find myself excited at the prospect of doing more with this project. I may return to the roots of the Contaminos, which was initially thought of as a “open world dodge and dash” but in the meantime, I'm having fun as I try and recover my spine a bit. I will post more as I come along with updates to the game. .

So here we have the first look at The Contaminos since the Mystery Murder Party video I released in October 2018. It has been a rather long seven months but now it is starting to look a little bit more ready for release. I am hoping to put this out before early June at the latest so hopefully, I don't end up going overboard with any last minute changes.

I'm going to talk about initially, what inspired my newest game I am developing called “The Contaminos: Fallen Earth” and it's counterpart “The Contaminos: Broken Sky.” Roughly 18 years ago I was in Paddy's market in Sydney, the ten-year-old me was looking for Yu-Gi-Oh cards when I came across a rather peculiar discovery.  The counterfeit Pokemon games Jade and Diamond (Funnily enough Diamond would eventually become an actual game years later in the future, with the legendary featured in that game to be a time traveler) share an actual real life relationship with counterfeit jade and diamonds which are worth more than gold in real life. To me seeing these there at that time, a form of cognitive dissonance formed momentarily. These looked real to me but at the same time I was aware that these may have been from another planet. I'm glad I didn't end up getting them because when I asked someone in the playground about Pokemon Jade and Diamond a friend...

These are officially my draft picks for the final season of Game Of Thrones, specifically who will live or die. I'm not willing to say if I carefully calculated interactions, relationships and ran that through an analysis of cinematic beats or if I put all of these onto a dart board and threw a lot of knives. Jon Snow: Alive Sansa: Dead Arya: Dead Bran: Dead Cersei: Dead Jaime: Dead Tyrion: Dead Daenerys: Dead Yara: Alive Theon: Alive Euron: Dead Melisandre: Dead Jorah: Alive The Hound: Alive The Mountain: Dead Samwell: Alive Gilly: Alive Little Sam: Alive Lord Varys: Dead Brianne of Tarth: Alive Davos: Dead Bronn: Alive Podrick: Dead Tormund Giantsbane: Alive Grey Worm: Alive Gendry: Alive Berric: Dead Missandi: Dead

Space. Endless void. Rustling air vents. Banging walls. I changed direction from a cabin in the woods to the final frontier. Initially inspired by Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, I found myself floating more and more off topic. The deciding factor was after I began implementing a new lighting engine. Testing it out on the Cabin gave me the chills and after listening to endless podcasts about Silent Hills: P.T. And watching Prometheus and Alien Covenant back to back I decided to go the route of a more traditional psychological horror game. What had to happen though to realise this new aesthetic was that I had to pick up a months work of development and toss it into the fire. Letting go is sometimes just as important as catching up to your goals even if that means destroying something you firmly had visualise to come through to the end properly.  Special thanks to everyone who contributed and I look forward to seeing you all next time.

Just a quick update, my newest game "The Projection" has just been released.

added nevermind the clown and crown of extinction to gamejolt, so you can get them there if you are so inclined to. I've been working with a live-action project at the moment alongside the contaminos and abandale games which I hope will all tie in together. the live action project is actually running live now if you can find it. As for my games, it's a lot of heavy work alongside the other things but I hope they will pick up sooner.