Monthly Build 2020/01 – Phantasmal

OK so here is one from a LONG time ago, I had completely forgotten about this project until yesterday when I was digging through old projects looking for something to share, and that is kind of heart-breaking in a way!

I go into more detail in the video (too much detail probably) but this project represented the first time I really tried to make a dream game, the kind of thing I had infinite passion for, and then abandoned because material reality got in the way. It’s kind of frustrating to know that if I had the kind of support I have with this patreon back then – this would have been a finished project by now. But I had to abandon this, and many other “dream game” projects while I was looking for something that could just cover the cost of rent and food.

Something I’ve been thinking about lately is how much the mindset I developed after things like this (make small stuff! stuff that is quick to make and get to market!) has been so ingrained into me at this point that I haven’t realised that after all this time with your support, I could have been working on one of my DREAM projects! Hell it’s been almost three years here now, maybe four? An amazing awesome project I love could have been finished by now!

Anyway that’s why this is the monthly build right now, a reminder of the ambition I used to have, that I want to have again. Because the next thing I am making is going to be awesome and magnificent and ambitious and magical and I’m not gonna be afraid to make it anymore! And the reason why is because you have been supporting me through even the most absurd dicey nonsense, I’m gonna stop fucking around and make something amazing!

Anyway, here’s a bunch of concept art for this old project, with download links below (they are so tiny patreon doesn’t mind them as attachments! I love old versions of unity!)