james martini

@jamesmartini.me

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they/them solo game dev on byte: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2946750/BYTE/ randy johnson enthusiast

cover of Whale Watching Quarterly's June 2026 issue, styled after a punk concert poster. On the top is the vampire lestat, and on the bottom is Johnny Pandora
Picture the BYTE table at PIGCON in Portland, OR. On one monitor is the title screen of the game and the other has the trailer. The DVD-ROM and stickers are also on the table
Front cover of the BYTE DVD release, with the cover art of Dracula’s castle and an emblem reading “PC - DVD-ROM”
The cover of the March 2026 issue of Whale Watching Quarterly featuring Hideo Kojima in front of a waterfall in Death Stranding holding up his Twitter bio that says “70% of my body is made of movies”. The title of the issue is “I heart games that aren’t games”
The cover of Whale Watching Quarterly Issue #1, with the feature being the cast of Kisarazu Cats Eye in front of text reading “The Year of Yassai Mossai 2003”
A booth in a dimly lit diner with a jukebox in the background
A video of a character sitting at a booth in a diner as cars drive past outside
A video of a girl standing on a busy street corner in the rain
A short video of a woman standing in the doorway of a warehouse in a city district hiding from the rain
A screenshot of the Steam admin page showing that byte is completely Steam Deck verified
Letterboxd review of ikebukuro west gate park that reads “just a cool show about boys hanging out in a bathhouse and then a park and then a bathhouse again and then getting into gang wars because a goth ballerina decides they aren’t doing enough crime and then they kiss”
movie poster for hackers
movie poster for slc punk
Poster for brass knuckle boys. It has the main character, Kanna, with a lollipop in her mouth and the faces of the four band members of brass knuckle boys stamped on her face
Movie poster for Wild Zero (1999), featuring the three members of Guitar Wolf
An image of guitar wolf, from the band guitar wolf, in the movie wild zero, saying “Believe in rock’n’roll!”
The album cover for twenty one pilots’ new album “Breach”, from the Digital Remains version
an EXTREMELY low resolution image of the chapel in byte where Jonathan is just barely recognizable from the eight pixels that compose his tie
The official Tiny Teams selection key art for BYTE
The meme from @BronMuse on twitter that involves variations of the phrase “They said you’re washed 6” and ending with “How will you respond 6” and a picture of lebron james
Jonathan Harker writing an email to a prospective seller in BYTE
Trailer for BYTE, an upcoming rpg based on Dracula
Father Nyssa saying grace in BYTE
The attic scene from the start of BYTE showing off the all-new FMV
The trailer for BYTE
And image of Count Dracula with the text “Through the Count’s concern I felt a hiss in his voice, like a snake reaching out and licking Arthur, checking his taste”
the opening of byte featuring videos of Portland, the Willamette River, Mt. Hood, and other Oregon sights
BYTE in the demos carousel for the Games in NY Steam event alongside Demon Tides, Banned Together, Brass Lament, and Tough Love Arena
Poster for the Games in New York Steam sale that lists the dates and time from 1pm EST on 5/29 through 1pm EST on 5/31
A black and white dithered video of a tree with a plastic bag stuck in its branches, blowing in the wind
A shot of Jonathan from BYTE on a White Island with a lighthouse in the background
A screenshot of Jonathan in BYTE reading a pamphlet with a quote from a doctor that says, “Well, the river can flush out a lot, but I’ve never seen it vacuum out a fella’s blood like that”
A video of Majima, from the Like a Dragon series, dressed as Goromi, his hostess alter ego, executing a violent heat action on a random guy
A screenshot from chapter 94 of moby dick that reads “Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill-humor or envy! Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.”
an screenshot of an early 3D-styled game with a young punk standing a dimly-lit diner with a trucker sitting at the counter
A video of a mermaid sitting high on a rock telling the player that a letter arrived for them but that it blew away in the wind and they should find it
A video of Jonathan doing squats, jumping jacks, and sit-ups
An image of Lucy laying in Mina’s lap with Mina’s journal saying, “Nonetheless, we must, of course, press on and do what we can to help”
A video of a conversation with a mermaid character in BYTE
An image of Special Agent Dale Cooper entering Twin Peaks at the beginning of the show, saying “I’ve never seen so many trees in my life.”
A picture of Kiryu Kazuma, from Yakuza 5, played by Takaya Kuroda, who will be acting in Promise Mascot Agency
A screenshot from BYTE that shows the Fair Bride lounging on a church pew with dialogue from Jonathan reading, “Her pallid, soft thigh appeared to glisten in the moonlight streaming in.”
A video of a road generator where you can move, rotate, and scale the intersections however you want and the tool generates roads to connect them all
A picture of me standing next to the Nosferatu sarcophagus
My cat roo chomping a plastic Charlie Brown Christmas tree
A screenshot from BYTE of Arthur laying down with Jonathan saying “But how did it get there? What is its purpose?”
An image of the Duolingo wrapped that includes a 1692 day streak
Character portrait for Jonathan, drawn in the style of medieval drawings and wood prints. Simple white lines on a black background. Jonathan has a halo around his head
An image of a lowpoly Yvain, from Yvain, the Knight of the Lion, with narration saying “Oh, Yvain and his beloved companion Gawain!”
Mina and Jonathan in the library. Mina says, “I’ve been trying to think about how I can be more useful in the quest to kill Dracula”
Jonathan in BYTE quizzing himself on where the borough of New York City are
The Destroy Boys album “Funeral Soundtrack #4” on vinyl
My cat, roo, curled up sleeping
1-minute trailer for BYTE
Jonathan standing in the chapel in BYTE
16-second teaser for BYTE that features shots of Jonathan interspersed with the text “To love for all eternity is hard / To live for all eternity is even harder / I’ll die because now I love you, too”
my darling cat roo stretching very big
A shot looking up at Jonathan in the Solarium, saying “I mean look at these trees! Such monstrous beasts!”
The scene in byte where Dracula sneaks up on Jonathan while he shaves in the mirror
An issue of The Japan Architect and an issue of Popeye, a Japanese fashion magazine