Chris Botman's homepage

Welcome to my homepage! A little place on the web I can go full-nerd. This is not a blog, we're going old-school here.

I'm a hobbiest game developer, sharing my game(s) and some of the inspiration behind them. Hopefully this will weave together threads of interest well suited to sharing on the web: retro gaming (especially PS1 and PC era), fantasy and sci-fi (e.g. D&D, Star Trek, X-Files) and a bit of Japanese pop-culture. In other words, I'm a millennial (or Gen Y, as we used to be called) nerd, bitten by the nostalgia bug.

My homepage is not an attempt to document all of my interests or everything I do. I'm engaged in many things: being a dad and husband, hobbies (gardening, art, music, reading, and being outside), work, and trying to leave Earth a better place than I found it (not going well). But beyond this little statement, I don't really plan to talk about those things here.

Games

Nostalgic sandbox/strategy games that respect your time.

Super RPG Town

I'm working on a playable demo of the core game loop, so will share more when that's ready. Inspired by the gameplay of Majesty and Dragon Quest Builders, the visual style of old 2D tile-based RPGs such as Ultima V, the spirit of countless Dungeons & Dragons adventures, and a feeling I still remember from the first time I logged into an MMORPG (Dransik), created a character and set forwarth into a wide open world.

Other content

Links

Some links you might like, if you like things I also like.

Adam Savage's Tested (YouTube channel)
Adam Savage of MythBusters fame sharing his passions. Like an uncle full of sage advice and interesting observations, he's my go-to when washing the dishes.
Dave Bull (YouTube channel)
Dave is a Japanese woodblock printmaker with boundless enthusiasm for the artform. He's Internet-famous for his Ukiyo-e Heroes collab with Jed Henry, though I am pretty sure YouTube recommended him to me as unintentional ASMR.
Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM) magazine scans
EGM was a popular console game magazine my older brother and I read at high school in the late '90s. Check out scans of most issues! Go back to a time before mobile phones, revisit the emergence of the web, enjoy fan art sent in the mail, but most of all, relive the glory of PSX, N64, and the unexpectedly long run of the GameBoy thanks to a small game from Japan called Pocket Monster (also Sega consoles, *sniff*). Since browsing these scans, I've started collecting EGM issues from the 1996-2001 era...
Maven Huffman (YouTube channel)
In highschool, my best friend and I were fans of professional wrestling during the legendary Attitude Era. Maven was a WWE mid-carder who came along later, and now vlogs. I knew wrestling was 'fake', but had no idea just how physically demanding it still was. Maven's storytelling made me appriciate the althleticism required and hooked me on wrestling again.
Metal Jesus Rocks (YouTube channel)
Everybody's favourite long-haired, metal loving, retro-game collector (and pals).
My GitHub profile
Odds and ends (and bits and bytes).
Wil Wheaton's blog
I like Wil Wheaton. He's a geek role model who stands up for others, and I find him inspiring. I also like table top games.

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