Odyssey great!

Simple lighting update, but the results feel huge. I love how our game looks now.

The canary in the coal mine for how bad indie funding has become was every serious conversation I had included gamepass as a major part of the publishing strategy. The rest of the time it was publishers with no money to fund hoping SamUni was like 90% done.

Even though I have enjoyed all the newer Ratchet and Clank games, in retrospect it is kinda off-putting to have all the edge shaved off that series in favour of the mostly twee vibes that slowly became more prominent after the PS2 era

It should be considered elder abuse to expose these iconic, ageing filmmakers to GenAI and the other huckster powered technologies.

SamUni is made by real people and the Patreon is the place where I hope share a lot more of the work this great bunch of people have being doing to make the project a reality.

These new screenshots are really benefiting from the lighting overhaul I did a couple of months ago. Starting to feel some genuine growth in my digital cinematography these days.

There's sometimes a buggy

A soft relaunch of the SamUni Patreon experience is happening this month.

Life is relationships. It doesn't matter what you are trying to build, if you cannot trust the people you are working with, you will ultimately learn a very tough lesson.

High tea at the Hydro Majestic for my gf's birthday the other week. Shot some ORWO Wolfen NC500 with the Nikon F3

As someone who has loved Lylat Wars (Star Fox 64) since the moment I laid eyes on it and played through countless times every year, can someone let me know if there is something new and interesting about the remake that would excite me?

Went away for a couple of days to celebrate my gf's birthday. Stayed in a bubble. Would recommend. Shot with Nikon F3 on Kodak Portra 800

Man, who are these even for... If you know the harm, why aren't you stopping it? I sincerely hope no consciences are being soothed by posting these, cause they sure af aren't for the people getting laid off.

If the SamUni dream ever truly dies, I want all the other devs to know that Adam and I will happily make title sequences for their games. You should check out our previous work, we've got a fair bit of range.

I know everyone is usually pretty proud of what their team is making, but I really can't stress enough how much it feels like we are cooking something incredibly cool with SamUni.

Amorpheus has always appreciated the creative endeavours of humankind...

POV: Everyone wants to go for breakfast and a walk on Sunday morning, but you are still in bed.

A really important question for would-be manager types. Is the procedures and check-ins actually helping productivity or does all the busy work just soothe your anxiety and need for trackable tasks?

Some of the SGF coverage and speculation around Xbox has become deeply embarrassing in the wake of the showcase. A CEO cannot save Xbox, they will only harm studios and the people who work there... It's not worth it to give them the benefit of the doubt.

The biggest problem with working at a film lab is that I like buying new rolls of film.

I shoot a lot of random film stocks these days, but Kodak Ultramax really never disappoints. Kinda still the best way to capture vivid colours and warm light on film.

You should not need a story to depict positive societal change for you to want to fight for it in reality. Wanting all cyberpunk stories to end in worker's revolutions is just false catharsis and not actual praxis...

A part of our cutscene workflow that I particularly enjoy is when I get all the storyboards (taken in-engine) and start assembling them into a sort of animatic with placeholder VO from the cast. Always reminds me how powerful editing is in this early stage where nothing is fully set in stone.

Rare on the N64 was so good that every now and then I do crave playing a bit of DK64. I never finish it or really get past the factory level, but there is something special about the studio's style in that console era.

Indie games are of course the wrong target for this disdain, but I do think this attitude is the direct result of gamers growing tired of obvious trend chasing and not having the right outlet or vocabulary to effectively critique the consumer culture they are a part of.

Second roll of Harman Switch Azure, a film that I initially thought was identical to Lomo Turquoise... Maybe it's just how I have been shooting, but there are differences and I kinda prefer Lomography's film on this one.

A little gatekeeping on low stakes stuff is ok... Invisible by Duran Duran is for Venom Snake only. I don't want to see any MGS Delta tourists doing fancams of Big Boss with that song anymore

The proliferation of the 'Unreal Realism' style in games is a problem because it converges directly with the fact that a lot of games are starting to use other successful games as their primary inspirations for visual style... You can really feel art direction flattening this generation.

Real Sydney Opera House enjoyers know what's up.

People like to say writing in old games wasn't that good or act like it's only just started to mature into a respectable form... But I'll take the colonel telling me to press the action button to climb a ladder over the AAA mumble self-talk any day.

What I'm feeling now with the lighting update is a genuine sense of confidence in how I approach these environments. It's been a long road, but tackling a new level has been a breath of fresh air this week.

Bit of a throwback to a chat I had last year following our first experience showcasing the game at a live event.

I know a game is probably worth the hype when so many fellow devs or critics come out to gawk in disbelief at decisions they would not have personally made. When the friction is so specific, you just get a feeling it's doing something worthwhile.

I think the lighting overhaul for the S3PF Command was where the new style really started to cement itself.

El Grande Americano vs OG El Grande Americano felt like an all-timer

This lighting overhaul is shaping up to be the moment Adam and I got our passion back after a couple of rough years.

Truly the worst thing you can do is surround yourself with people who do not make for the pleasure of it or are envious of other people's creativity. They will try to spoil the thing that can soothe the soul when things are too much.

Started catching up with a friend from my day job to do little one roll sessions on weekends. Here's some of my favourite shots on a expired roll of Pro Image 100.

Started catching up with a friend from my day job to do little one roll sessions on weekends. Here's some of my favourite shots on a expired roll of Pro Image 100.

When a legendary auteur who used to be scrappy suddenly jumps onto a new grift in an attempt to circumvent the labour of other artists... It means they are no longer fit to steer a project. We thank you for your seminal works, but it is now time for someone younger and hungrier to take the lead.

Early in the shift from animated series to game, we made this OP for SamUni. Now we are finally updating it and the changes Adam has made so far have me so excited to catch up at the end of the week to go over the more complex reworks.

As someone who grew up at the peak of the Bronsan era and found games like Nightfire to be pretty formative, First Light's opening hours are shaping up to be exactly what you hoped Bond's return to consoles would be.

Friday nights in the city before the rain hit. I have shot 3 rolls of CineStill 800T around the area vonnecting Haymarket to Darling Harbour over the last year. The first was for game research, the others indicate a habit forming. Shot on CineStill 800T + Nikon F3

Original Time Crisis dropping on the classic game catalogue is making me miss my Gcon2 and copy TC3 on PS2 so bad right now.

I want to shoot some really expired film on the weekend because it needs heaps of light, but today is the only sunny day this week and I'm trapped in the store 😭

Getting home from work and being able to play around with a new location and characters to get a feel for an upcoming scene is always so energising. I love this project so much.

Since getting my day job at the film lab, I've shot at least 1 roll of film a week for almost 2 years. Finally separating my photography from any hustle and just doing it for the love of the game saved my life and has made my other work better in the process. Shot on Kodak T400CN + Nikon F3

If things feel a little slow with the SamUni updates these days, I can assure you we are still plugging away... But there is a little more living going on right now, cause those last four years of grinding were rough. Shot on LomoChrome Classicolor 200 + Nikon F3

Indie development is hard, you can get screwed over and end up jaded... But it's not gonna look good if you position yourself as a hater and actively chum up the waters around fellow indies.