Tanat (making Building Relationships) Boozayaangool

@tanatb.housefuckinggame.com

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quit tech to make the most stupid game possible 🏩 Building Relationships 🏘️ indie dev - GDC Speaker - He/Him 🏳️‍🌈 pole dances to video game music pls wishlist 👇 https://store.steampowered.com/app/2666920/Building_Relationships

straw packaging with text “100% degradable”

screenshot from the twitch app of the building relationships category which features recent broadcasts and uploads of people talking irl about relationships instead of playing the game

screencap of Building Relationships's key art on screen, being mentioned in the podcast

email snippet with certain redactions:
"Hi Tan Ant Games team! I came across Building Relationships, congratulations on your launch! The graphics, unique ideas, and scenarios are the kicks, indeed.

One thing I felt was, 'updating the background music can make this game a game changer, for sure'.

I believe it will significantly enhance user retention if you just quickly patch our license-free AI music API.

We provide an Enterprise API plan with 10,000 songs/month for 99.99 USD. This is the lowest price point in the market.

We lower the price by developing our own AI music engine, not wrapping the existing ones.

I'm [Redacted], founder of [Redacted]. We built [Redacted] on the belief that AI should amplify human creativity, not replace it — developers describe a mood, a scene, or a vibe, and it composes an original track shaped by their own direction. Every track is license-clean, fully owned by the creator, and built on our own models (so it stays clear of the copyright disputes around the major AI music tools). Genre-tuned for rock, post-punk, indie, and hip-hop, available as a studio or via a simple API developers can drop into a game.

You can let users directly create their own AI music within your games, but also you can simply load our existing [Redacted] music catalogues into your game. Both work is easy, but it is recommended if you want to keep your layouts simple.

a house fishing up cars from a fishing pond

video of a guy in a wig and maid outfit cleaning a pole

guy in maid costume eating food with chopsticks (the feet is covered up with stickers)

climbing wall

Mirror selfie of guy in maid outfit

whatsapp text that reads "happy birthday diva have u quit ur job yet"

steam discussion forum post titled "What is LGBT+" with text "How does this manifest itself?

This is really a game about relationships at Buildings that raises the topic of same-sex relationships, seriously?"

zooming into a sculpture’s well defined butt

watercolor painting of a chateaux taken in front of a chateaux

house on the ground shot in a way that only the top half is visible, suggesting an illusion of a child

guy in pink suit and cute makeup as light trickles through the leaves above

guy on stage in front of a slide that stays "i am a fa**ot and this is a game for fa**ots"

freaked out, staring into space kinda cat

movie poster for backrooms

2. For the love of god, do not use ChatGPT to write your email. It does not make you look smart. It does not make you stand out. It makes you sound like the human equivalent of an unsalted british cracker: flavorless, dry and devoid of any personality whatsoever. It's also
very obvious if applicants are using genAI to fill their emails, because all chatGPT- produced applications look the exact same. I actually ended-up reading the same email 3 times in a row as I was scanning applications - the same email, almost word for word - I'm not joking. Let me insist a little bit to really hammer how detrimental your use of chatGPT is to your application. If I don't realize that you're using chatGPT, I will think that you're boring as hell (and nobody wants to hire someone they find boring). If I do realize that you're using it, I will think that you have no ability to think or do things for yourself, since
you couldn't even be bothered to write your own email, and you'll be disqualified automatically, regardless of your portfolio. You may think that you can find a way to work around this by asking chatGPT to write in a different style, but then you'll just sound like one of these creepy AI-run Linkedin or Facebook pages, which is even worse than being
boring. It's always a losing scenario.

email response saying "Hi Tanat, Apologies for the delayed response. We're happy to help" (the rest of the email is censored)

email subject titled "hi guys i just want [REDACTED] and no one is responding to me and i'm sad" sent by Tanat Boozayaangool. the email starts reading "hey so like"

reddit post titled "I quit my job at Google 2 years ago to make the most stupid game imaginable" with video gameplay of Building Relationships. First comment reads "...Why?" with a reply from OP stating "depression"

meme of guy putting on makeup

a magpie calling out to its flock, screenshot from the trailer of bad magpie

trailer of building relationships showcasing a house pole dancing

bluesky DM from malindy saying "Tanat I'm sorry if this is overstepping but this made me think of you!!" along with a reddit link to r/gamedev

some white guy tell another white guy about 9/11 (i think they are important politicians)

story rich showcase hosted by Fellow Traveller on June 6 celebrating narrative games, featuring video game Building Relationships

login prompt checkbox that states "Do not challenge me on this device again" (as a way to get the device to remember you)

screenshot from “the remake of the end of the greatest rpg of all time” showing a screenshot of a gdc talk next to an image of a child with the captions lucas from 2007

grindr grid screenshot showing a house with text "fuck buildings" while all other tiles are censored for privacy

guy in banana shirt holding two dk banana shake mugs with frankly ridiculous eye makeup

guy in otange and landyard with subtle blue glitter eye makeup

Building Relationships is a pun wrapping around to sincerity. The buildings are sentient, they have feelings, they’re looking for love. It’s sweet if suitably surreal. There’s an ironic detachment, buildings passing around weird socks and surviving random accidents. But never does Building Relationships transition into being itself a joke. Playing as a sentient building is almost secondary to the island’s tone, a place at once alive to the characters within it but unmoving and cut off from the rest of the world.

casette tape with a cover titled “indiepocalpyse”

guy taking off a sweater and unbutton a top while singing toxic by britney spears (also shaking ass at some point)

screenshot from the video showing a guy in white trousers, pink rhinestone mesh and black vest making a silly face on the lawn

guy in pleather vest holding microphone on stage with eye makeup, pointing to the side

guy on this rope pulley thing that glides across two platforms (it’s a playground in Oslo)

slide titled "hello and welcome to a writing workshop (about storytelling through weird mediums)"

guy with white eyeliner and glitter in a peak sweater and green pants

slide titled "6 months spent on 3.5 minutes of gameplay by Tanat Boozayaangool" with note on the bottom "note that i will say the f-slur 3 times"

selfie of guy in red hoodie (very windy on the boat)

a book titled “This is Not a Border” Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature on a coffee table with avocado hummus toast and juice

road leading into nordic woods

a piece of chicken with a label “cum” on a toothpick

half selfie of a dude with broken headphones wearing a mask in the airplane

a writing workshop (about storytelling through weird mediums)

Get silly! Or get sad! Because it’s time to write! In this workshop, you’ll be tasked with pairing a personal topic with an esoteric structure. Maybe you'll write about the crippling nature of anxiety, but express it through a song meant for kindergarteners to dance to. Or perhaps you'll tackle complicated familial love through Deutsche Bahn train delay announcements.

It’s like creative writing meets improv. Come and explore the weird, the heartfelt, and the whimsy :)

(No LLM usage or Gen AI in this workshop)

AUDIENCE: Open to folks with any level of writing expertise (No Gen AI)
REQUIREMENTS: Just an interest in writing (No Gen AI)
BRING: Laptop or pen & paper

a shortform video titled "duplicated the player character just to see what happens" followed by an amalgam of houses flying into the sky and crashing

a short trailer for Auto Censor System showing a player censor a man's selfie for being too ugly

screenshot from "you are the auto censor system" showing a retro image of a man with title "pic of a frowning man" and description "An unflattering selfie, kinda ugly". Two buttons on the side offer the option to approve or censor

unity panel showing what the game looks like in the scene editor and what it looks like after dithering and post-processing

short gameplay footage showing the cutscene introducing the video game titled "you are the auto censor system"

BotC script titled “Building Relationships, Burning Bridges” which includes a lot of chaotic roles

video game WIP text with dithering effects and y2k colors and text "You are the auto censor system" in thai and english

wip video game screenshot with text in english & thai saying "i used to believe in the sun"

“You” written over a video game house

broken ceramic with “my heart is broken” written nearby