Santiago Rodriguez (James Roach)

She answered a Help Wanted flyer seeking “Clerical Work” with no experience required. She showed up at the Monastery thinking it meant an office job. After a few weeks of training with the monks, she is still sort of wondering when they are going to show her to her desk.

June 2026 Gamedev newsletter is live. If you haven't seen it elsewhere, I've been doing a monthly newsletter talking about the slow process of making my game. Right now its a lot of designing and redesigning of characters and fleshing out the setting with my collaborator HONE. I also have been sharing a lot of WIP music there too.

thats one of the three ghosts that visit me every time i write a song to show me my sins and make sure i never write another ska song

If you don't know, I started posting updates to the game I'm trying to make in a monthly newsletter on my patreon. Last month I talked a little about the main character, Carmina. This month I talked about the development of Marisol, a bounty hunter that is doggedly pursuing the you in Chapter 1. In the post, I share sketches by HONE, talk about character design choices and share sketches of music including the full version of the track in this video, her battle theme. You may recognize parts of it from an old track I wrote a long time ago. It was always for this, but now that I'm not stuck working on other things I am taking a chance on trying to work on my own thing.

I will probably rework the patreon a bit in the coming months, though for now I added a SUPPORT TIER, that doesn't force you to join my discord server. And for only three bucks! Which is basically two bucks! Which might as well only be a dollar. On the server I've posted a lot of WIPs and dev art over the years as I slowly try and build something of my own.

Anyway It is still a bit early in the process, so thanks for checkin it out. Otherwise, just enjoy some tracks I post occasionally. Thanks!

my own

none. an irresponsible size for any creature.

If you've been following me for a while, you've seen this character before. I've enlisted HONE to work with me doing primary art and character design. Carmina is a self described "Highly Specialized Purveyor of Valuables." Chapter 1 will focus on her robbing a train while eluding a bounty hunter.

The setting is basically a western with mild fantasy elements. I've been worldbuilding and developing it for a long time in the background, but since I've been stuck in bed for medical reasons its been easier to find time to work on things for myself. Instead of doing it in one big piece, I figured I'd focus on smaller chunks and just introduce each character and their backstory and how they interweave with each other one at a time.

I've been considering setting up my patreon more to help fund this, and give updates. I've posted about it almost exclusively on my patreons discord server, but its always been sort of a background project. I briefly thought about maybe doing a (yikes) kickstarter or something but god knows I have a traumatic history with those.

Since my primary creative output is music, I've written a lot of music for it. I've posted it here and there.

yes, i liked it

i know this might make a lot of people sad but i don't really care about homestuck anymore. not even aradia.

yeah, i've been posting WIPS in my patreon discord mostly. working on a game, reworked my outline and am about 50% done with chapter 1 script. figured i'd finally work on my own thing instead of being stuck working with whoever elses property.

they wont tell us. what are they hiding

i had an aneurysm :)

asking this question while having your icon be from that episode of the simpsons where mr burns kept telling that baseball player to shave his sideburns is leading me to believe this is just a thing for you

i'll answer some asks tonight, if thats still how you do it here

enjoy a taco for me i guess

opening up some slots

ive made a startling discovery about the severance theme