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In case you stumbled upon this site by some unusual manner of roulette system
Demo Disk
Playing video games that don't exist yet
Vapormage
A series of novels, or one really long one if you're into doing that
About
Greetings. You're reading the digitized words left behind by the person legally known as Zoe Landon, and otherwise known as Hupfen, and probably known by other names that she's not supposed to be aware of. That's her in that picture there!
Zoe is paid to write web software, and not paid to write stories or music, but she does those too. At the moment, she's a lapsed podcaster, journalist, audio engineer, and recipe inventor, but at any moment she could start doing any of those things again, surprising the general public and also herself.
For years, Zoe produced Demo Disk, a show of upcoming indie video games and prototypes. And by "produced" we mean "she did a Twitch stream and then a podcast for a bit". It's now been rebooted for Youtube as a show with actual production effort. Progress!
She was the drummer in The Mighty Missoula but left that band to go to grad school or have a psychological episode depending on your interpretation of her mental state.
Vapormage - A Novel
An early artist's interpretation of the cast by Viel Vidal that's already out of date but hey it's a visual
A mage, a grunt, a scholar, a spy: four misfits adventure together to save their world, people, and selves, if only they can stop trying to kill each other first.Kell Rusalka, runt of the Vapormages, has been mysteriously marked for death while off on a mission. In just trying to survive, they adventure through a science-fantasy world on the edge of war and build up a band of fellow outcasts and misfits, who make a great team when they're not at each other's throats.Every answer they find raises more sinister and surprising questions about the impending war and the industry behind it. Kell and their band will have to put aside the whole "trying to kill each other" thing if they're to save their homelands and protect the souls of their people. They're willing to do so, whatever it takes, but is the world willing to let them?The book's not out yet, but I've been working on the sequel and sharing short stories in the Vapormage universe to my mailing list. You can sign up for it below:
Contact
If for some reason you wish to get in contact with me, then I can only apologize. The footer below has several means by which to contact me, each of which has a variable chance of actually reaching my attention. Those variables change on a constant basis, so no, I cannot guarantee that I will respond to any given communication. I'm very bad about that.
Demo Disk
Video games. They keep makin' 'em. They're probably making one right now.There are plenty of popular ones, but I like to check out the unpopular ones. So that's what I do. I play demos, prototypes, video games before they're totally video games. Any genre! (Though I've learned I should play genres I actually like. Look, nobody's perfect)There's a few years of livestream archives on my YouTube channel, but I've started making more tightly edited videos as well. Those are even more watchable!