james martini

a couple of little announcements today of new(ish) stuff. The first is that BYTE is now available on @itch.io! Because of itch's significantly lower cut, the base price is a little less than on Steam (and this one is completely DRM-free ;P) ⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️ jamesmartini.itch.io/byte

Was extremely excited to execute a zine swap with @pizzapranks.bsky.social at prge 👾

At prge a middle school boy in a weird al t shirt came and played byte, said it was the best game he’d played today, and then had me sign the sticker he took so suffice it to say people with good taste love my game

Someone come to the @pigsquad.com booth at Portland Retro Gaming Expo and buy all my DVDs plz. They have Dracula on them 🧛‍♀️

for almost the entire past year i've been working on a comprehensive procedural animation system essentially so i can make cutscenes using code and avoid learning actual animation and i've finally gotten things to a point where i can make things happen that don't look horrifying and terrible

The Steam Autumn Sale starts today and it's also been a year since I released BYTE!! The game is on sale now (conveniently until my birthday on the 8th) ⚰️ store.steampowered.com/app/2946750/...

I'll be at PRGE on Saturday showing BYTE!! I haven't been to PRGE in quite literally over a decade so I'm excited to be back for it 🧛‍♀️🩸🧛‍♀️

Damn me, but all things are queer, come to think of ’em.

my only opinion on new ocarina of time is rest in peace jpeg town ⚰️⚰️⚰️ gone but not forgotten ❤️‍🔥

Just got out of the bikini kill show and feel pretty confident that kathleen hanna is the coolest human to ever live

Now's probably a good time to share the original conclusion of my Black Ops 7 review, which did get published for a few hours, only for someone high up at Moonrock (or above) to get upset about it, resulting in one rather noticeable cut.

I am currently in the Lloyd Center food court

To Portland people planning on being at Lloyd Center for its last day tomorrow (💀), I’ll be hopefully setting up to sell my BYTE DVDs at Lloyderpalooza from 11-3 🩸🧛‍♀️

The ghouls who run EA deserve to burn aftermath.site/ea-saudi-arabi...

I wrote game reviews for a media site in college for about a year and across almost two dozen reviews I never received even a single note on anything I wrote

one might choose to describe this as the greatest day of my life

when folks say that manual procedural generation work is not the same as generative AI, this is what we mean. it's all just humans making artistic decisions, even if it is generated. it's more often than not a highly manual process as detail oriented as when i'm manually making environments.

secondly, I have a new issue of my whale watching zine out now!! This one is largely about The Vampire Lestat, the show, the book, and the very real guy that I am obsessed with. Johnny Pandora also appears and a few notes from showcasing at PIGCON jamesmartini.me/posts/2026-0...

alright, here's my thing for manifesto jam cmddx.itch.io/i-hate-your-...

As something of a vampire expert let me tell you that if you’re not watching the vampire lestat you’re missing out on the biggest innovations in the vampire space in decades

we used to think games needed systems and interactivity but the truly wise know they only need systems

if you’re at @pigsquad.com’s PIGCON on Saturday, come find my table to buy a physical DVD-ROM edition of BYTE! 🩸🧛‍♀️🩸🧛‍♀️ Not only does it come with the physical disc and TWO digital codes, as well as a game booklet, but it also has an EXCLUSIVE soundtrack CD 💿💿💿💿

PIGCON is a great way to share your game and meet other gamedev folks! The show is May 30th & 31st in Portland, and our speaker schedule is up now. pigcon.pigsquad.com Here is another lil trailer to help explain :) youtube.com/shorts/-0G0c...

guess who's going to be showing their hit vampire vn/rpg BYTE at @pigsquad.com's PIGCON on May 30th??? (it's me) if you're in portland come say hi and grab a sticker (special-made for this event :P)

guess who's going to be showing their hit vampire vn/rpg BYTE at @pigsquad.com's PIGCON on May 30th??? (it's me) if you're in portland come say hi and grab a sticker (special-made for this event :P)

Tickets are live, and the presentation schedule is up now! More details & full games list coming soon 🌲 We're just over 3 weeks away! pigcon.pigsquad.com

last week I finished my next issue of whale watching quarterly In this issue: - Hara-Kiri: Death of a SamurAI - Skate Story: Micro-review - Death Stranding: On Games that Aren’t Games whalewatching.neocities.org/posts/2026-0...

I know it’s annoying that I constantly ask people to sub, but subbing makes a huge difference. @aftermath.site has around 5,000 paying subs right now; most of us still work other jobs on the side. we have over 90k bluesky followers. if a fraction subscribed, it would literally change our lives

BYTE’s 50% off for the Steam winter sale right now!! It’s not Halloween anymore but it’s always vampire season 🧛‍♀️🧛‍♀️🧛‍♀️🧛‍♀️🧛‍♀️🧛‍♀️ store.steampowered.com/app/2946750/...