HEY HI

i'm bryan (they/them)! i live in Tkaronto on Dish With One Spoon territory. i'm a white queer punk in my early 40s, a little-'a' anarchist, and an always-aspiring accomplice to racial justice and anti-colonial movements. i've been trying to make politically-engaged art for a long time. it's hard, and i fuck it up a lot.

i've always been interested in the technical side of creative work - videography in my teens, audio engineering for a good long while, then a shift towards computer programming about a decade ago. these days i code small experimental video games. lately i've been working with Die Gute Fabrik on unannounced stuff and Cheekynauts on Moonshell Island. from 2022-2023, i helped build infrastructure for a cooperatively-run studio-of-studios called Gamma Space.

this website started as a portfolio, but the thing i'd most like it to do is spark conversation with people making cool stuff. i know that's a hard sell when we're used to socializing on half-sunk social media titanics, but i'm stubborn and a bit of a wallflower, so i'm sticking to it. in the meantime, thanks for stopping by, and please don't hesitate to drop a line!

GAMES

available to play


ANY SAND ANY SAND (2024) - Point-and-click through a future present that almost wasn't. Commissioned for Indiepocalypse 54.
F15H 74NK F15H 74NK (2022) - Cursed sequencer/jumbo shrimp assembly.
afield afield (2022) - A gentle grasshopping roguelike about finding your way home. Originally for 7DRL.
I don't think I've walked this stretch of road before I don't think I've walked this stretch of road before (2022) - Travel the length of your memories on a lonely country highway.
S T A Y H O M E vol 1 S T A Y H O M E vol 1 (2021) - Spend quiet time in a washroom. Do stuff, or don't. A reflection on home-space.
B-Sides B-Sides (2021) - w/ Elijah Forbes for Comics x Games. A queer journey of doubt, discovery, and the paranormal.
CONVERGER CONVERGER (2020) - An anti-fascist urban brawler roguelike. Originally for 7DRL.
Unbecoming Unbecoming (2018) - A sonically-textured revisionist horror denouement.
Apologies, for what it's worth Apologies, for what it's worth (2018) - w/ shrunken. Read a dense letter from your sibling and discover what you've left behind.
BIT RAT: Singularity BIT RAT: Singularity (2018) - w/ [bucket drum games]. A bit-crushed narrative cyberpunk puzzler. Indiecade 2017 Finalist.
sphinx of black quartz judge my vow sphinx of black quartz judge my vow (2017) - w/ shrunken. A dislocated puzzle-poem, languaged across the blank expanse.
STAR JAR STAR JAR (2016) - Catch stars. Fill jars. Wake with the sun. A bullet hell camping simulator.
What's Yours is Mine What's Yours is Mine (2015) - Battle your cursed twin for the royal orbs. w/ Ian Campbell and Michelle Kaatz for TOJam 11.

in development


VERGER VERGER - A tiny roguelike in four seasons.
WYGAFIU? WYGAFIU? - An eco-disaster parable of human interference in fragile systems.
Beacon Beacon - w/ shrunken. A discarded family computer stores a lineage of secrets.

ETC

Fragments from the Biophilia Codex (2024 Metatron Press) - w/ Shannon Quinn & griffin epstein. An immersive eco-grief myth.
New Not Normal (2020) - w/ Ferment collective. A living map of emotional and creative responses to COVID-19.
Racial Infrastructure (2019) - w/ Dr. Sherene Razack, Sarah Montoya, & others. Pedagogical toolkit for studying cases of racialized and Indigenous people killed by police.

2024 these woods ltd