Hello, my name is David and this is my website.

This website is intended to function as a portfolio for my few, but reasonably polished works. There would be more if I wasn’t such a lazy asshole.

You see, unlike most artists or computer programmers; I didn’t study art or computer science at university. Instead I did a degree in management because I thought it would pay better. I also believed that a degree in management would help me in running a business that me and a guy called Smith Geursen started in our first year at university together. It was a mushroom company that specialised in growing oyster mushrooms. Unfortunately, the mushroom company wasn’t doing terribly well, it was making enough to pay its bills, but not enough to pay us for our time. That was fine for the first couple of years, but then it started to get annoying, especially when you compare the number of hours you put in versus working even a minimum wage job.

After I graduated, I spent the next couple of years applying for jobs and being a waster before I realised what had to be done.

Throughout the course of my life, I’ve always had a thing for making games. Ever since I started reading “Fighting Fantasy” books and playing Sega back in the early nineties, I’ve been doing work on games in one way or another. The first game I made was a choose-your-own-adventure book that I wrote on an Amstrad back in 1995. Unfortunately like most of my previous work, I lost that book before it was even finished.

In 1997 I made some sprites, even though I had no idea what to do with them:

"some undead dudes - 1997"

They look like shit, but I think it was a pretty good effort for an 11 year old. They even have stats! I made a shitload of these sprite sheets; one day I should turn them into a game. That would be surreal, finishing a project you started when you were 11, fourteen years later.

I made a few games in Visual Basic when I was at high school, one of which was actually pretty good and took an entire year to make. Alas, I lost it sometime during the transition between the  many computers I’ve had since then.

I pretty much gave up trying to make games after finishing high school in favour of studying boring shit that I thought would help me get a job. But as I have come to realise after finishing my degree and spending a couple years wallowing in self pity – that I can’t do anything else – I have to make games.

So I spent 2009 making  games again while working part time as a janitor to pay the bills. One of the games I made  is actually pretty decent (hence the website).

Please browse my stuff and if you want an artist or a programmer (or a manager lol) that is not terribly skilled, but extremely cheap – I’m your man!