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for folks who follow me on itch, you know i just directed a game jam game.Good Lord! Everyone at the Reunion For My Religious All-Girls School Is a Trans Man... And They're Hot?! is exactly what it sounds like on the tin. and i wrote a short (ish) postmortem on what happens in order to organize a larger game jam game team and some of the decisions needed to get there! check it out! :eggbug-smile-hearts:

for folks who follow me on itch, you know i just directed a game jam game.
Good Lord! Everyone at the Reunion For My Religious All-Girls School Is a Trans Man... And They're Hot?! is exactly what it sounds like on the tin. and i wrote a short (ish) postmortem on what happens in order to organize a larger game jam game team and some of the decisions needed to get there! check it out! :eggbug-smile-hearts:



Life Eater is an horror fantasy kidnapping simulator. Play as a modern-day druid living in suburbia, holding down a dead-end job to pay for your true vocation: conducting the annual ritual that keeps the world from ending.

To delay the end of the world, you must sacrifice a number of specific - but vaguely-described - human beings every year. Use a video editing-inspired interface to discover the story of your victims' lives, one schedule block at a time. Pry into the most intimate details of your targets' schedules, and when the time is right: abduct them before the authorities can find your lair. Time is short and your list of names is long. Choose your options wisely... and pray that the dark god you serve is even real.


hi! i worked on this game and it's sick! if you like weirdly oppressive gameplay where you thoroughly invade a person's life by stalking them you, uh... you, hm. this game is for you?

out now on steam and itch



the first game i worked on professionally was ranked #2 on paste magazine’s top games of 2023! thank you garrett martin!!

El Paso, Elsewhere does something exceedingly difficult: it’s an action-first game that still focuses heavily on its story, and pulls everything off with a consistent level of care and quality. It’s an intentionally “weird” game that doesn’t owe too much to overly referenced cultural touchstones like Twin Peaks or hoary conspiracy theories, and it’s also blatantly indebted to turn-of-the-century gaming without feeling cliched or unoriginal. (Think Max Payne or PS2-era shooters—that’s what El Paso yearns to evoke.) It invites all manner of comparisons and references, and yet defies almost all of them across its 50 chapters. It stirs a lot of echoes, yet makes a sound that’s entirely and unmistakably its own. It does the job and does it well, with the kind of cohesion you rarely see in games: an expertly calibrated suite of mechanics that interconnect flawlessly, combined with a smart, well-written story and an intricately interwoven soundtrack.—Garrett Martin