cain

@cmddx.itch.io

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makes weird horror games check out PROXIMATE https://store.steampowered.com/app/2957800/PROXIMATE/ https://cmddx.itch.io/proximate contact@cainmaddox.com melbourne. he/him 🏳️‍⚧️

desiccated body sitting on a bus. it's covered in pink slime mold, with some bright yellow pustules.
fucked up looking guy sitting at a bus driver seat. his face is gaunt, eye sockets hollow and mouth agape
me, standing in front of a mirror with some graffiti in green markers. i'm wearing a green mesh dress
photo of my wrist with two armband tattoos. the first one is a bird from my game waste eater, the second one is the distance indicator from proximate
tattoo of a borzoi dog catching its own tail going around my upper arm. there are pink and green abstract florals around the dog
silksong
s tier - what is a cozy game? a tier - ludonarrative dissonance b tier - should games tell stories? is friction inherently inaccessible? c tier - should games have an easy mode? do games have to be fun? d tier - are games art? can games tell stories? what is an indie game? should making games be profitable? the game awards/gdc. yellow paint. dickhead of the month
b tier - should games tell stories? c tier - what is an indie game? d tier - are games art? can games tell stories? should we make games more stupid so that people with no attention spans can understand them? the game awards
A nasty looking Ibis. There's tentacle-like tendrils coming out of its mouth and nostrils.
red carpet AGDA photo of me. i'm in a dress and heels, holding an award. there's a lot of empty space to either side of me
me, homosexual, squatting in a short dress and holding an agda award
I made PROXIMATE as a warning for why I *don't* think this technology should exist. I believe that the environmental, social and  political consequences of LLM AI are ruinous. In PROXIMATE, I imagined a dystopic scenario in which a company takes this technology and allows it to filter and dominate the way we perceive the world, to terrible consequences.  The absolute last thing I want is for my game lend itself to the creation of these same technologies. You are not permitted to use any assets from PROXIMATE. I would encourage you to seek out other projects. If you want to create software to help blind people, perhaps speaking to blind people and asking them what they actually want might be a good step. - cain
A tattoo on my wrist: it's a straight line band going around my wrist with a gap in the middle. inside the gap is a little minimalist bird, the same one from my first game, waste eater
A white cat laying on a couch armrest. He's pressed his whole body flat against it and is gripping the sides. He looks like if someone dropped a scoop of vanilla icecream on the couch and it's started melting.
A tag from an ao3 fic on Proximate: No Beta We Die Like Simon
me holding a white cat in my lap. she's laying on her back with her paws up
Photo of someone playing PROXIMATE: the game is projected onto a wall and someone is sitting I front of it with a controller and headphones
me holding two pretzels in a park
A ceramic stag head. Base layer of red paint with yellow and blue drips going down its horns and forehead. The eyes are white and bleed down its cheeks.
Negative steam review: Not for me, but maybe for you (The true horror is the amount of woke stuff in this).
Two refund data notes from Steam. One reads: The game advertises itself as horror game but there is no horror in the game The other: its to scary and im a baby
Steam review: "crying and shaking cannot leave first room pray for me"
A game UI window in a pastel color palette, predominantly purple with some pink, blue and yellow accents that look almost iridescent.
Small screenshot of a log from the game. It's written in a very crisp, detailed pixel font.
a photo of my hand: i have long, black claws
Auspost tracking history. There's six different entries of my package being "processed at sorting facility". It keeps going back and forth between Melbourne Airport and Melbourne CBD.
Steam review: i want to write a "good" review, i want to write something comprehensive and meaningful that captures the full breadth of what I'm feeling after my time with PROXIMATE. i don't know if I can??? i wish this was a physical thing i could chew on. i wish i could leave teeth marks as a review. i'll be thinking about this one for a while. you could be too. you should. thanks
Screenshot from the game. Little pixel art of a dog named "feral dog" with the subtitle text: You give the feral dog your pronouns.
Steam review: Sublime horror which doesn't outstay its welcome whatsoever, and somehow a whole lot more which I wouldn't want to spoil. What a debut for the dev. :) <3
Screenshot from the game. The UI is styled like a headset visor. It shows that the player is looking at a thing called "INTESTINE"
Ingame screenshot picturing a retro aesthetic visor screen. There's a compass to the left, and some metrics data on the right. In the center of the screen is the word "DOG"
pair of black cargo pants with green and pink paint splatters, laid out on a desk with materials nearby: paintbrush, paint, thread scissors
screenshot from qbittorent of me seeding my own game's torrent. currently 724 peers detected
Meme template of a person getting stuck in a thought cycle. They keep asserting to themselves that they "need to make a roguelike" but never seem to get around to it.