the secret to happiness is taking yourself out for lemon ice tea and braised vietnamese pork and then playfully flirting with the cute trans woman at the underground poetry night

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I'm Demi, an award-winning unity developer and interface designer with over a decade of experience! I'm available for work starting March and would simply love to bring your game to reality! You can contact me here, or email: dschanzel[@]gmail.com

I think I disagree using juice can be wonderful for slowing down the rhythm of the game but I think it also comes down to whether you can couple the motion to the player interaction, and making sure the interface always responds smoothly to the player no matter the circumstances

simply adored my time with cairn and also secretly wish it hadn't focussed so much on story. All the dialogue and cutscenes and camera cut-a-ways really took me away from my own personal journey of climbing up the mountain

cairn is about chasing the stillness at the edges of our mortality, and ascending at any cost, so that we may someday dance endlessly among the burning stars

[food] apple cake

Is he cooking? It's too early to say.

a small game designer on their way into the big city

sent my game into an award ceremony and I really hope it gets nominated for a design or accessibility award, or at least gives the judges a lot to talk about 😊✨

it’s raining softly, and I’m merely snuggled up in the kitchen brewing coffee and waiting on the rain to pass

no matter how simple a question may be, I always adore adding small opportunities where the player can playfully break the interface and mess about you wouldn't believe how much joy it brings folk to outsmart me

been working with our local council making playful survey games for our kids, to better understand what kind of playgrounds they want it’s been such work, but the feedback from everyone has been beyond heartwarming and it genuinely feels like we’re making a difference ☺️🌻✨

best living with my close friends a couple weeks now and it’s been so lovely watching us build a new life together my heart is so warm with feeling 🌸✨

video games

Lost media archivist on tumblr named robindaydream found these screenshots from the canceled NES port of Caves of Qud

art is reactive, it reflects the world it was made in, it does not create it, if you're frustrated with a lack of any certain type of art your work is with the world not the minds of artists, art helps us process what is happening to us and connect across space and time, but it can't save us

making minute progress on my radio menu

prototyping a new radio menu

simply adore when games explore the feeling of loneliness, or give you space to be alone with your thoughts; even more so when they challenge that desire for loneliness why am I so intent on climbing this mountain, when the ones I adore more than anything else are waiting on me in the next room?

#teatime Strawberry fruit tea paired with avocado toast topped with paprika, mozzarella cheese, and strawberry jam and goat cheese on rustic white bread. Also, Tunic on Nintendo Switch.

a couple photos from the last week

caught up with some old friends over dinner last night and simply adore how older and queerer and more ourselves we’re becoming

I think we need to sing, and dance, and make things from the heart; otherwise we rot and end up killing our humanity

the secret to game design is spinning on chair at least twenty minutes a day

reading Mountains Of The Mind by Robert Macfarlane while playing Cairn is really doing something to me I think the mountains call to me

there’s always something so quietly sacred about laundromats, the one place no one would ever desecrate

moved in with my best friends a little over a week ago and it’s one of the best decisions I’ve ever made ☺️🌻✨

cairn is about chasing the endless stillness on the edge of our mortality, and ascending at any cost

still now your breathing slumber soundly below such drown deep blues my child of the seas

applied for a small game design role and really hope I hear back from them ☺️🌻✨

mere sentience cast oblivious upon the soil of this world, asked to somehow make sense of all of this

make video game

@leighalexander.bsky.social can truly spin gold out of any old bullshit none more so than this lovingly-reflective short story that I’m going to be thinking of for such a time to come

had simply the cutest time out at the tāmaki makaurau game designer night I met so many talented people, and even got to spend time with some old friends ☺️✨

reading this in chunks because anytime I get even a few passages deep I’m overcome with such feeling

I will defend to my death the notion that the majority of people are good. We are social animals, and our empathy is one of our greatest strengths. Don't let the sliver of humanity that's killed off their empathy for power and $, driving division, convince you otherwise. We are strong, together

“even through the tear gas, we could taste a softer, gentler future to come. These federal murderers know it, too. We will bury them beneath the new world in our hearts”

moving in with my best friends this weekend and I’m spilling over with so many warm 💕feelings💕

I simply adore the first week of a brief when it’s just me with a sketchpad, a pencil, and a cup of coffee and I would’t replace that for the world

we really need to begin holding creatives to higher standard than their ego there are millions of scientists, doctors, librarians, and activists tirelessly working to keep our world from ruin and it’s them that inspire me more and more with each passing day

and sometimes still I sail out, light candles at the fallen altars of this ocean swell

please give this a read if you’re in need of any hope or heart during these times the resistance burns within all of us

capitalism is at heart a sickness, and we only end up hurting ourselves when we only see the world through its lens there’s a reason why all the warmest and most moving social spaces, art, and relationships exist beyond its periphery

I’m beyond heartbroken over this Freeplay was one the first organisations to really give me a platform and recognise my games, and their sense of community and love is simply incomparable 💕

keeping Arash Hackimi in my heart tonight they’re an Iranian game designer who managed to send an email through the Iranian firewall, and it’s a profoundly moving and human read insertcredit.com/feature/a-ga...

I have a natural talent for designing really simple interface flows I’m now in a place where I’m making games for young children, and it’s so heartwarming seeing how easily they’re able to play them

"Do you know what the most popular type of art is—a genre so broadly loved that it is collected utterly apart from any market value or popular acclaim? Art made by children. Before art is visually splendid, before it is even articulate, it is valued as a connection to a consciousness in formation."