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About

An image showing my fursona.

My fursona. Art by PineapplePickles.

If you hadn't figured already, I hail from the UK, England. And yes, I do fulfil the stereotype of consuming lots of tea. These days I'm living with my partner and our cat in a small village in the South East, surrounded by elderly folk and sheep.

I'm heavily into data preservation (particularly around games) and run a site called TalonBrave.info, which is named after a character that was to feature in a game you may have heard of called Prey. The site is a bit of a branching spider, with other associated projects and sites, such as The Data Dungeon. I've dumped quite a few different pieces of software over the years, many of which can be found on the Internet Archive.

Reverse engineering various file formats and games is also a big hobby of mine (you can find some of my work published on both TalonBrave.info, and here).

Besides computers, I also love to write, whenever I get the chance and motivation to do so. For a long time now, I've been gradually fleshing out my own fantasy universe, though who knows if it'll actually go anywhere. You can check out some of the writing I've done on my site Inverted Stories.

Wouldn't say I'm very active in the scene, but I'm a big supporter of open-source software, at least, done in a way that isn't exploitive. I'll probably write about some of my thoughts on this at some stage, but personally I'd always lean towards more collaborative licensing such as the GPL over other more liberal licensing such as MIT. That said - open-source is open-source and I'll always heavily advocate for it.

Finally, I sometimes produce music though it's completely for my own pleasure and something that I'm not doing as often as I used to, sadly - creative blocks suck. If you're interested, you can find my SoundCloud here.

Portfolio

Below is a list of various projects I've worked on over the years. 

It's a little awkward putting a range on some of these, as it doesn't necessarily mean I worked on the project continually for that long or that I'd completely stopped at that point, but hopefully gives a rough idea of how long it was a focus for.

The skull and crossbones is indicative that the project was cancelled or unreleased.

Websites

Software

Games

Mods

Other

* = There's an official remake of Hogs of War currently in the works, and I've stated that I'll take my hands off my own project until I know what's going on with that, as it's basically aiming to do what I'd wanted to do anyway. Depending on how the release goes, I might or might not revive the project.

** = Project cancelled but source-code has been released.

Games Played & Completed

This list is likely incomplete. I've tried to sort it from latest to oldest, but of course my memory gets a bit hazy when it comes to the older lot.

2024

2023

2022

Earlier...

Anime Consumed

Again, likely incomplete, but you get the idea. Not really watching quite as much as I used to.

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