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.
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Adam Savage's Tested (YouTube channel)
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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.
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Dave Bull (YouTube channel)
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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.
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Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM) magazine scans
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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...
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Maven Huffman (YouTube channel)
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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.
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Metal Jesus Rocks (YouTube channel)
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Everybody's favourite long-haired, metal loving, retro-game collector
(and pals).
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My GitHub profile
- Odds and ends (and bits and bytes).
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Wil Wheaton's blog
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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.
🚧 This website is under contruction 😉 🚧