Steve Stamatiadis

Greetings. I'm a 30+ year veteran of the games industry. I've made Lots of my own original IP like TY the Tasmanian Tiger and Blade Kitten. As well as directing some smaller lesser known IP like Star Wars: The Force Unleashed :D I like to design characters and make comics in my "spare" time.

Adult money in action October edition... ...Shin Godzilla packaging tape dispenser. (Technically, it's a business expense - business stationery. So it's tax-deductible.)

You know, one of my proudest achievements might be that I fell that I don't suffer from same-face-syndrome and still have a consistent style that feels my own. That said, don't ask me to do someone else's style because I totally suck at getting that right. Maybe that's win/win?

You know, one of my proudest achievements might be that I fell that I don't suffer from same-face-syndrome and still have a consistent style that feels my own. That said, don't ask me to do someone else's style because I totally suck at getting that right. Maybe that's win/win?

Adult money in action October edition... ...Shin Godzilla packaging tape dispenser. (Technically, it's a business expense - business stationery. So it's tax-deductible.)

I'm glad 7 days are over, they've been a little stressful with diet prep and the rest for my procedure. Glad it all went well today and now I can get back to doing stuff again. Oh, also, I had pizza to cap things off. So that's like a fresh start, right?

Procedure all done and went well, a couple of polyps removed and back in 3 years time. Also they had some fantastic egg and chive sandwiches . I’m going to have to try that next time I make egg salad sandos.

4 liters of prep drunk. Would've been easier if I could eat something salty with it, but that's no bueno. 11 hours to go until the procedure.

Some critter fun before I start the prep for tomorrow's procedure.

I exported versions of Gunwale, Starslayer and Rumble-B to the Retroid Pocket. Much cute, so cool.

Went out to grab a nice piece of grilled Barra and chips for dinner. Had to drive past the little bat colony where the flying foxes were flying over the intersection to eat the wattles across the road. Very cute watching them navigate the flowers on the trees to eat while waiting at the lights.

Since I got the gamepad controls working, I decided to order the Ayn Odin 3 Portal.

I'm glad past me did it this way because yesterday I added back gamepad controls for everything and it wasn't difficult. Still heaps to tweak and polish but now you can easily play it on the go.

Got my Retroid Pocket 6 today and immediately dropped Gunwale onto it. Looks lovely on the screen. I think I'll slowly work the button controls back in but the main focus is still mouse. So tempted to also order an Odin Portal 3, but I don't need another handheld...yet.

Life imitating TY 😊

Pretty cool taking out the wheelie bins in the evening and seeing the giant bats flying around.

You know what you really, really need? The best collection of demon-hunting stories from the master of supernatural shenanigans... me 😏 The Kitty Kazawa: Freelance Exorcist - The Big Book of Demons collection. (And now I must rest from such shameless self-promotion. You... go and buy the book)

This week I've been doing heaps of little code fixes/improvements to Gunwale. Nothing super-exciting but finally I got off my arse and made sure all the elements link together properly, well, at least reasonably ok. It now has subtle overtones of a game.

So, basically, any homeless person begging on the street has mad more money than Anthropic?

You know what you really, really need? The best collection of demon-hunting stories from the master of supernatural shenanigans... me 😏 The Kitty Kazawa: Freelance Exorcist - The Big Book of Demons collection. (And now I must rest from such shameless self-promotion. You... go and buy the book)

I love it when Disney is too cheap to pay for Star Wars music in their Star Wars ads when they use Star Wars to promote very much not Star Wars stuff.

I love how icloud is absolutely fucking useless when you actually need to get a picture off your phone to your PC in a timely manner. It's always... Last update - yesterday or let me download 400 photos for no reason before you can do anything with that one photo.

Would you believe this is the game that led to the birth of Krome Studios?

Raining this morning and the Butcher bird is back sheltering from the water, and this time he brought a friend. They've both been sitting there singing away outside my bedroom since about 5:30AM.

Having another attempt at a little garden again this spring. Today I noticed these little Capsicum Snacks have popped up. The chillies next to them have nothing yet :(

Elon's "flying cars"... the "F" is silent

From the fridge... 😊

This is probably pretty obvious to anyone who follows me online. I like to make stuff that I enjoy and share it online with people, I don't create "content". It's just my version of sticking my art on the refrigerator.

Took Mickey to the vet to get the huge lump on his back leg looked at - biopsy says it's another lipoma (fatty lump). He's had one removed before and this one's not bothering him so we're just going to be keeping an eye on it for now.

Some art from the prototype. Shame we never got to make it, but you guys did end up getting TY instead.

We had a Pokemon-ish 3d platformer sequel to this which we started experimenting with before we started Krome. That became the basis for the first TY prototype.

Every movie, song, and book that you love was made without the technology that people who don’t make art are now insisting is necessary for making art.

Mickey stops and hides during his walks to make sure we're not being followed by cars.

Boring behind-the-scenes stuff, but I've rewritten the UI code to have dynamically created text boxes. They're still a bit basic, but the functionality is in place for later.

"In my joke blog post (during my time at Unity) I invented the Semantic Game Builder Interface as a silly cautionary tale." Unity 12 years later: "At long last, we have created the Semantic Game Builder Interface from classic April 1st blog p- web.archive.org/web/20120501...

Cover idea for a little Gunwale book.

I will be getting one of these. My first computer was an Atari 400 - I upgraded to an 800, which I still have in my garage. I did buy the 400 mini but I always wanted an Atari XL. I love that this has the cartridge slot that works too. Damn, I also have to get that Amiga 1200.

Cover idea for a little Gunwale book.

Some of this week's UI code cleanup work.

I am weak. I ordered a Retoid Pocket 6 today.

There is another Sky...walker...