A sincere business proposition in ceremonial lighting

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I make strange, systemic games full-time. You provide money. I provide art, updates, and the civic comfort of supporting a man with no appetite for shame.

solono studio, no committee
full-timethe bridge is ash
dadlunch policy applies
gamesactual deliverables
Omari, photographed by his daughter
i'm beautiful

Filed under: dignity, waived

Hey. I'm Omari. Dred if you know me. Fey if you are ancient.

I've been making games solo since COVID with Unity, Construct, Godot, Defold, Solar2D, and whatever else had the poor judgment to let me in.

This is no longer a hobby I visit after work. This is the work. Full-time, all-day, one-person game development with a published-author brain, dad logistics, and a spectacular refusal to pretend money is not involved.

43old enough to mean it
1developer, no meeting room
80k+lines in the larger beast
0shame units remaining

Exhibit A through J

A convincing list of reasons why you should give me money.

The tone is joking because capitalism is embarrassing. The request is serious because rent has never once accepted vibes.

  1. My last job in tech went bad. Real bad. Over 10k in unpaid wages and the CEO facing numerous lawsuits kind of bad. It took something I loved - community building and connection - and made it an exercise in futility. I'm financially gutted, and going all in on game development. No more half measures.

  2. I have a kid and child support payments. Short sentence. Large implications. Excellent pacing.

  3. This is what I'm doing now. Full time. All day. Every day. Solo dev life. This is it.

  4. This is a win-win for you. Support a full-time indie dev, and I give you games. A transaction, yes, but with lanterns.

  5. It's a two-way street. If you're in the area, I might buy you lunch. Might is the load-bearing word.

  6. I need to look good if we go to lunch, so I need better clothes. This is brand development.

  7. When you give me money, I'm obligated to listen to you. I'm like a therapist in that sense, except wildly less qualified and somehow more available.

  8. Be a part of this. Grinding out unique, quality games with a dev who cares and answers emails like a person.

  9. You're helping keep art, expression, and freedom alive in this age of corporate-mandated NothingNuggets.

  10. Wealth inequality is a real problem. Do your part. This is macroeconomics, probably.

The goods, your honor

Actual games. Actual listings. Actual little worlds with problems.

I am not simply standing in a candlelit room asking for tribute. There is inventory.

Generational ruin simulator

Bloodweight

A procedural saga where every generation is an inheritance of bone and sin.

dynastyAI chroniclerliterary

One hand. Four keys. Consequences.

A.K.O. Arrow Keys Only

Your weapon auto-fires. Your thumb files the complaint.

arcademinimalfast

Workplace sorrow, itemized

Downer Management

Hire. Fire. File. Mourn. Sign Form 3NQ.

bureaucracygrim comedyforms

A Marblewick game

Dragons Die

First in the franchise. A small dragon strategy about dangerous expectations.

strategysmall dragonsMarblewick

The patronage apparatus

Humility is expensive, and I have no room for it in my budget.

Shame is a poor man's game. Give if you can. Share if you cannot. Send a strange opportunity if you have one. I will keep making work that has teeth, jokes, and a suspicious number of inheritance systems.

My daughter did my hair, took the picture, and added the effects. I'm beautiful.
If you have a problem with it, lunch is off the table.