It’s been some time since I talked about Pwimfeff. True Believers will remember it as the one-minute short film I made for the Gotta Minute Film Festival seven years ago. It wasn’t accepted, but I put it online because I was proud enough of it. Last year, on a whim, I entered it again, and this time it got in!
Remember? You can watch it here:
Continue reading “Pwimfeff Again”This is an oldie, but it’s silly to not have it up here.
I graduated from the Design and Motion Image program at MacEwan University in 2013. The final project was to make a documentary. Because my class only had five people in it, (incidentally the last year the program existed,) we weren’t divided into groups. This meant we each pretty much had to make a documentary ourselves, wearing every hat in the production tickle trunk. It was very educational, but also quite stressful.
I had all year to plan it, but the more planning I did, the more work I’d have to do between all my other classwork and jobs and responsibilities. I knew that in order to make the best documentary possible, I would need to come up with something that basically made itself. As the year wore on, and the due date loomed, and nothing was striking me, I decided to just point a camera at the most interesting person I could get my hands on and hope that a story emerged. Thankfully, my first choice was down for it, and way exceeded my expectations.
Legumi is a retro-styled adventure game about eating beans and finding true happiness. You can purchase it on Steam and at itch.io!
One million years ago I made Bean Caravan, a goofy little ten minute board game, and ever since then I’ve been trying to figure out how to turn that concept into a “real” game. I’ve also wanted to put together a less ambitious video game than Bif Borf so I could prove to myself (and crowdfunding backers) that it’s something I can actually do. I’ve also ALSO wanted to use this one character/ creature design that I’ve been sitting on since I was a wee lad.
