OVERVIEW

This bit's because, although I initially started this campaign based on my gamedev, that's not the full story. Becoming my Patron means supporting all my creative endeavours, which include the following aspects:

- Gamedev (games I've made / helped make can be found here)
- Fiction writing (links to my ebooks can be found here)
- Blogging (indiegamenews.com, moviereviewsandnews.com, my writing blog among others)
- Creating gameplay and Let's Play videos (YouTube channel)
- Voice acting (have voice acted for several games - see the list under GameDev)

So, if you support me, you will in effect be supporting all of the above. Following is the info I originally posted about my GameDev in particular, as that's what it all started for.

I will as often as possible give my patrons free stuff above and beyond what's in the reward tiers, because I want to give as much thanks as I can to those who are helping me out!

The Dream

I would ultimately love to be able to devote every working day to making games, helping others make games, and write about games. I will be eventually releasing some commercial games but I want to stay involved with making and helping others make great Freeware games.

What will your donations do?
I have chosen Patreon because I am not asking for funding for a particular project - I am involved in making games of all sorts; Freeware, Donationware, Commercial. The more I can raise here, the more time I can devote to this. They are not all my own games - I really enjoy helping others to make their games too, whether it be with storyline help, voice acting, sound effects, play-testing, or whatever. Simply put, donations to me here will help to open up more opportunities for me to work on my own games and other people's games - eventually I hope to be able to reduce my secular work hours or even (the true dream) go full-time indiedev. Also, more time = more blogging / review, which I would like to continue doing to help other indie devs gets some exposure (which is becoming more and more difficult).

My Games

The best way to see if you like my games is, of course, to try them. So here are a sample of my games:

Captain Disaster in Death Has a Million Stomping Boots (Demo of game in production)
Troll Song Verse One: Completely Stoned (first part of planned commercial game which unfortunately I've had to cancel :-()
Captain Disaster in The Dark Side of the Moon (fully voiced freeware game)
A Sloth for Both Seasons (made for a gamejam, pretty sure you'll never have played anything quite like it before!)

GameDev

Via the AGS community I have made a few games of my own and helped others make theirs in various ways - quite often with voice acting, such as with the recently released talkie version of Jack (a game about investigating the Ripper murders, where I voice Charles Davenport, the detective in charge of the case and also 6 of the suspects), and my own game Captain Disaster in The Dark Side of the Moon, for which I provided all the voices including an attempt at an American accent which has been described as "delightfully all over the place". I'm not really sure if that was meant as a compliment but I'm going to take is as such!

Of my own games, my two biggest projects are Captain Disaster in Death Has a Million Stomping Boots and Troll Song. These have both been in production since 2012 and are at different stages of development, but Stomping Boots is looking good for an initial release in 2016. You can visit the Captain Disaster Dev Blog or Troll Song Dev Blog for more information about these games.

So far I have been involved in making over 30 games made with AGS - including as Designer, Story Collaborator, Playtesting, Sound Effects, Voice Acting, even Graphics (you can tell when the graphics are awful!). These games are all listed on my AGS Profile Page. There are one or two others that I've not been directly credited for on that page - for instance I'm one of many who provided a voicemail message for the awesome Technobablyon. These are mostly - but not exclusively - point and click adventure games, and the majority of them are available as freeware.

Some of the games I've worked on:

The full list of games made with AGS that I've worked on can be seen on my AGS Profile Page (although some very small voice parts and advisory roles were uncredited so the real number is very slightly higher than what you can see there, and I have also helped out with one or two projects that were not made with AGS.)

A Landlord's Dream (Story ideas, SFX, playtesting)

Blue Lobe Inc. (Voice Acting)

Beyond Eternity episode 1 (voice acting)

Baldy's Adventure (Playtesting)

A Sloth for Both Seasons (Story, Game Design, SFX, Voice Acting, Terrible Singing!)

Captain Disaster in The Dark Side of the Moon (Story, Game Design, Graphics, SFX, Voice Acting [all characters])

Eternal Chrysalis (Story, Puzzles, additional Graphics)

Space Tunneller (Everything apart from the snazzy title and menu screens)

If you want to see an example of what I've written on my indie game news blog, check out some of the Reviews and Interviews