My Prototypes: Clones Game
October 19, 2025Another prototype I’ve worked on recently is a side-scrolling puzzle-platformer, the central conceit being you are able to create life-limited clones of yourself to perform helpful tasks in areas you can’t reach. During gameplay you can switch control between your ‘original’ self and any of your clones, but only for a short time, until the clone dies. The idea is vaguely based on an old platformer called The Swapper (2013), which is a game where you can create clones of yourself to aid progression. I have never actually played this game, just seen a handful of trailers and screenshots, but…
My Prototypes: Drone-cam supernatural game
The next prototype I’m working on is something completely different! Set in a version of the UK where supernatural encounters and otherworldly entities are kind of known about, if not overtly acknowledged, you play from the vantage point of a…
My Prototypes: The Water Remembers
The second of my ongoing prototypes is something a bit different: a “walking simulator” on a remote island. No, I am not inspired by Dear Esther in the slightest (no weird stories about kidney stones here thanks!), more by a…
My Prototypes: Demon Detective
Hello again! In my last post I did a ‘bloggers crutch’ and threw together a bullet-point list of prototypes I have been working on over the last few years. After writing that, I figured it would be interesting for you,…
It’s been a minute!
Looks like my last post here was March 2022. That was probably when I decided to hide the blog here and focus on social media instead. Also, I had a couple of project-specific blogs on itch.io that I was updating…
New comic Kickstarter launches today!
That’s right, I’ve got a new kickstarter campaign on the go 🙂 This time I’m returning to Lisa and Tom, my favourite psychopaths, and I am collecting together parts 1 and 2 of The Murder Club: Useless Deaths into a…
My 2021 Year In Games – part 3
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 CLOUDPUNK Nivalis is a futuristic, cyberpunk city build over the ocean, that is slowly falling away into the water. As newly arrived refugee Rania, you take a job with Cloudpunk, a delivery…
My 2021 Year In Games – part 1
Told you this was going to be a regular thing! 😀 Hello again, and first of all my apologies for hardly any posts this year. It’s mainly because I am now in full-time employment and, for the middle of the…
My 2021 Year In Games – part 2
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 DESTINY 2 Now, I love a good shooty-bangs as much as the next person, and while I hate multiplayer games, and avoid MMOs, the gunplay and combat in this one had been…
Demon Detective is on the case!
Hello everyone! It’s been a while since my last update and I’ve been spending the first part of 2021 so far working on several parts of my comedy detective game, Demon Detective. The UI The main character of Demon Detective…
My year in games – Part 4 (Oct-Dec)
And we’ve reached the end of 2020 with only four games to go. So, what was I playing…? Here’s links to the other parts: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 OCTOBER CELESTE I don’t normally…
