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Bradford James (Aspenth)
is creating point-and-click Adventure games for PC and other platforms
Foundations are the base of my support. Without you, everything I build would fall into ruin. There's no substitute for a solid foundation. I have naught to offer but my most sincere gratitude for all who choose to support my work.
I'm currently working on developing several adventure game concepts into full-fledged PC games (and potentially other platforms later). I've been using AGS for its ease of use and Sierra flavor. At the moment I'm working on demos of two of the primary concepts that I've finalized recently.
Both projects are point-and-click Sierra-style PC adventure games that focus on player exploration within a rich game world. I was exclusively playing Sierra adventure games as a kid, namely the King's Quest and Space Quest series. Naturally, all of these projects will be, in some form or fashion, inspired by Sierra.
Once I hit 50 patrons, I'll set up and actively maintain an exclusive Discord channel for all patrons to join. Within the channel I'll provide regular updates on the progress of my active writing projects, as well as chat with patrons regarding horror and related themes.
Recent posts by Bradford James (Aspenth)
FIX - edited/rewrote page and profile to better reflect what I'm currently doing, i.e. making adventure games for PC
WORKING AS INTENDED - I'm still writing horror/drama and those stories will be more accurately portrayed through this media (well, some of them)
UPDATE - author name now includes my primary pseudonym/handle/pen name/alias/nickname/etc.
FIX - nerfed emo, buffed despair (addressing balance concerns)
NEW FEATURE - currently working on demo for a sci-fi survival adventure/mystery game (Sierra-style)
((development status: rescaling backgrounds! painting hotspots and walkables!!))
NEW FEATURE - also working on demo for a surreal drama/mystery adventure game (these games will probably always be Sierra-style so let's just get that out of the way now)...oh, and this one's in first-person perspective
((development status: 95/95 demo backgrounds complete! painting hotspots!! script: COMPLETE !!! programming events !!!! adding BGM !!!!! event flowchart/map: COMPLETE !!!!!!))
WORKING AS INTENDED - looking pale because I've been staying up until 3AM+ every night working on the games (or updating Patreon lol)
KNOWN BUGS - my sprite work needs a bit of work, especially on animations...the placeholder sprites I've thrown together at the moment aren't pretty but they get the idea across
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forgetting to put semi-colons after every line of code!
eye fatigue from staring at white on near-white pixels for hours on end!
FIX - edited/rewrote page and profile to better reflect what I'm currently doing, i.e. making adventure games for PC
WORKING AS INTENDED - I'm still writing horror/drama and those stories will be more accurately portrayed through this media (well, some of them)
UPDATE - author name now includes my primary pseudonym/handle/pen name/alias/nickname/etc.
FIX - nerfed emo, buffed despair (addressing balance concerns)
NEW FEATURE - currently working on demo for a sci-fi survival adventure/mystery game (Sierra-style)
((development status: rescaling backgrounds! painting hotspots and walkables!!))
NEW FEATURE - also working on demo for a surreal drama/mystery adventure game (these games will probably always be Sierra-style so let's just get that out of the way now)...oh, and this one's in first-person perspective
((development status: 95/95 demo backgrounds complete! painting hotspots!! script: COMPLETE !!! programming events !!!! adding BGM !!!!! event flowchart/map: COMPLETE !!!!!!))
WORKING AS INTENDED - looking pale because I've been staying up until 3AM+ every night working on the games (or updating Patreon lol)
KNOWN BUGS - my sprite work needs a bit of work, especially on animations...the placeholder sprites I've thrown together at the moment aren't pretty but they get the idea across
===========================================
forgetting to put semi-colons after every line of code!
eye fatigue from staring at white on near-white pixels for hours on end!
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Andre Bradford
is creating Slam Poetry
Just want to show some support? By pledging only $2 you'll be showing me love AND get access to all of my Patreon only posts, career updates, and upcoming shows!
You dig the work! This tier allows access to all of my poems in written form, including ones I've never performed before. You ALSO gain access to my Patreon only posts, which will include videos, career updates, and upcoming shows. Thank you so much for supporting my work and slam poetry!
Every single one of my pieces is written to be performed, and this tier allows you access to my video series. This series will include recordings of all of my stage ready poems, including new poems I write in the future. I love writing, but I'm a performer at heart and I each of my slam poems greatly benefits from the nuance and physicality of performance. You also gain access to the written versions of my pieces as well, so you can follow along and circle when I mess up!
Welcome! I'm Andre, my stage name is S.C. Says. I'm a national championship slam poet living in Austin TX, and I LOVE this art form. I've won a few slam competitions, but the greatest "trophy" I've ever received was performing a piece of mine titled Crayon Box at a school in Wisconsin and a girl coming up to me after the show tearfully thanking me for helping her not feel so alone.
I am also currently a sales director at a startup company in Austin called Adonit. Adonit has been an incredible blessing, both in experience and just getting to work with dope people, and it has allowed me the downtime I need to pursue my true passion. I am now, though, at a point where I want to pursue poetry full time (alliteration, gotta love it).
And that's where the Patreon community comes in. I want to build a fanbase large enough to support doing solely poetry, always.
So here's what's up. If you enjoy any of my poetry or performance, please consider becoming a supporter through Patreon. I want to get these poems in front of as many people as I possibly can and your support would allow me to do that. This whole art form is about sharing your story, and I look forward to sharing mine with as many people as will listen.
And to the people who already support, like, thank you for saving the whales and fighting to get us to 100% renewable energy (I imagine these are things you also do since you support art)!
This goal would allow me to pursue my passion full time. I'd be able to do poetry for a living. That's insane! But hopefully not too insane, cus like, it makes sense to me.
Anyway, if I'm able to hit this, then I will add 5 charitable shows to PUBLIC schools per year. I grew up in a public school system, and had they had a slam poetry presenter or class I think a lot of students, myself included, wouldn't have felt as alone. I'd love to be able to do free shows and workshops for public schools!
By becoming a patron, you'll instantly unlock access to 6 exclusive posts
By becoming a patron, you'll instantly unlock access to 6 exclusive posts
An Ode to the office refrigerator.Oh metal mother.Constant and chilly comforterPreserver of cheeses and the three nearly empty Bottles of ha...
“An Ode to *insert inanimate object you use every day here.* Examples could be toaster oven, rear view mirror, baseball cap, Amazon Alexa, anything.
“If I were an alcohol, I would probably be ________”
“It started raining, and all I could think was _______”
Happy writing! And feel free to share any of your work with me, I’d love to read it!
“An Ode to *insert inanimate object you use every day here.* Examples could be toaster oven, rear view mirror, baseball cap, Amazon Alexa, anything.
“If I were an alcohol, I would probably be ________”
“It started raining, and all I could think was _______”
Happy writing! And feel free to share any of your work with me, I’d love to read it!
True story.I once got arrested at 1AM for being drunk in public,And instead of taking me in,The police officer that cuffed me took my phone,...
Obviously no one enjoys losing any sort of competition, but rather than taking the L and moving on, I tend to wallow in it for hours (days). “Could I have done this differently? Was the scoring really fair? Was that the right poem to send up?” I play the loss over and over to see what I could have improved on, realize there’s nothing I can do about it now, and then feel shitty anyway.
Southern Fried is a regional poetry slam competition in which teams from, typically, southern states get together to battle it out in raw emotion, creativity, and performance. This was my first year competing in this particular competition, and I felt fairly confident in our ability to do well.
I was a member of the Austin Poetry Slam Regional Slam Team, and the team itself was made up of a National Group Piece Champion (me), a haiku champion and National Final Stage Poet (Teresa), a poet who was once ranked 3rd in the country in individual poetry and a two time Austin Poetry Slam Champion (Christopher), and a very promising noob (Amber). Over the last two months we had been writing and rehearsing group pieces and individual pieces, and we were finally ready to show off what we’d been able to accomplish.
Each Poetry Bout is made up of four teams competing in four rounds of poetry, and the scoring is similar to golf. If your team takes first place, you get a one, second place gets a two, and so on. At the end of the competition, the four teams with the lowest cumulative score will compete at finals.
Our first Poetry Bout we took the one relatively easily. By that I mean we didn’t have to use any our (three) group pieces in order to win. Generally, group poems tend to score better than individual poems, and so we wanted to save our limited amount for if/when we were behind in our other Bouts.
Our second Bout was tough. A team we weren’t expecting to be very strong was killing it all night with some incredible writing and performances. We threw up a group piece that had been a huge audience pleaser, but our mics started getting really bad feedback as soon as we started. We eventually went off mic, but then had to really project to be heard and the poem ended up scoring much lower than we had anticipated. The Bout ended up coming down to our last poem, and our coach decided to send me up to do an individual poem to try to win the Bout. I performed my Dragonball Z piece, and within the first two lines I completely forgot a word and it sort of threw me off the rest of the poem. I finished the piece thinking that I had just cost our team a chance at finals, but the poem ended up scoring high enough that we were able to win the Bout by a difference of .1.
For any basketball fans, that’s like scoring a buzzer beater from half court during game 3 of the Finals. We went crazy after hearing the final scores. It felt so good, especially knowing that wasn’t the best I’d ever done that poem.
Our third and final Bout was our hardest. Three teams in our Bout (including us) were in position to make it to finals, they just had to win the Bout. So we came out swinging. Our first poem was the highest scoring poem of the first round (Christopher), as was our second poem (Group Piece) in the second round. Our third poem (Teresa) also scored really well, but the other teams had been staying within range of our scores and during that round had actually passed us slightly. It came down again to our last poem the last round and again our coach sent me up to do an individual poem.
And I went INNNNNN. I performed my Unnatural Disaster piece, and it was easily the best I had ever performed it. The audience was really reacting to it, I was pausing at the right moments, and emphasizing the right words and thoughts. I was in my element, doing what I feel like I was created to do. And the piece scored really well.
I needed to score a 29.7 (out of 30) and I scored a 29.4. We lost the Bout by .2 points, and were bumped out of making it to finals. And it sucks.
I’m the current reigning Austin Poetry Slam Champion (2018), a title I’ve won solely based on the caliber of my individual poems. I’ve travelled the country performing my poetry at different poetry venues, high schools, universities, and competitions. On some level, I know that I am good at what I do.
But I could always be better, as I painfully learned at the end of that third Bout. I needed a poem that would score a 30, regardless of who was judging it, or how the audience reacted, or what the acoustics were like in the space, or even what state I happened to be in. I don’t have that poem yet. And because I don’t have that poem yet, my team didn’t advance to finals.
I’ve never been a great loser, but I have become a fairly decent channeler. And as weird as it is to say, poetry slam is my favorite place to lose. It inspires me to write in a way nothing else does. Not a great movie, or a phenomenal book, or even another mind-blowing poem. Losing at slam is like losing at anything else in my life, it sucks, but it motivates me to be better.
So that poem, the one I didn’t have that would have got us to finals. The one that would have punched everyone right in their heart bones. It’s coming. Because I’m not a great loser.
Obviously no one enjoys losing any sort of competition, but rather than taking the L and moving on, I tend to wallow in it for hours (days). “Could I have done this differently? Was the scoring really fair? Was that the right poem to send up?” I play the loss over and over to see what I could have improved on, realize there’s nothing I can do about it now, and then feel shitty anyway.
Southern Fried is a regional poetry slam competition in which teams from, typically, southern states get together to battle it out in raw emotion, creativity, and performance. This was my first year competing in this particular competition, and I felt fairly confident in our ability to do well.
I was a member of the Austin Poetry Slam Regional Slam Team, and the team itself was made up of a National Group Piece Champion (me), a haiku champion and National Final Stage Poet (Teresa), a poet who was once ranked 3rd in the country in individual poetry and a two time Austin Poetry Slam Champion (Christopher), and a very promising noob (Amber). Over the last two months we had been writing and rehearsing group pieces and individual pieces, and we were finally ready to show off what we’d been able to accomplish.
Each Poetry Bout is made up of four teams competing in four rounds of poetry, and the scoring is similar to golf. If your team takes first place, you get a one, second place gets a two, and so on. At the end of the competition, the four teams with the lowest cumulative score will compete at finals.
Our first Poetry Bout we took the one relatively easily. By that I mean we didn’t have to use any our (three) group pieces in order to win. Generally, group poems tend to score better than individual poems, and so we wanted to save our limited amount for if/when we were behind in our other Bouts.
Our second Bout was tough. A team we weren’t expecting to be very strong was killing it all night with some incredible writing and performances. We threw up a group piece that had been a huge audience pleaser, but our mics started getting really bad feedback as soon as we started. We eventually went off mic, but then had to really project to be heard and the poem ended up scoring much lower than we had anticipated. The Bout ended up coming down to our last poem, and our coach decided to send me up to do an individual poem to try to win the Bout. I performed my Dragonball Z piece, and within the first two lines I completely forgot a word and it sort of threw me off the rest of the poem. I finished the piece thinking that I had just cost our team a chance at finals, but the poem ended up scoring high enough that we were able to win the Bout by a difference of .1.
For any basketball fans, that’s like scoring a buzzer beater from half court during game 3 of the Finals. We went crazy after hearing the final scores. It felt so good, especially knowing that wasn’t the best I’d ever done that poem.
Our third and final Bout was our hardest. Three teams in our Bout (including us) were in position to make it to finals, they just had to win the Bout. So we came out swinging. Our first poem was the highest scoring poem of the first round (Christopher), as was our second poem (Group Piece) in the second round. Our third poem (Teresa) also scored really well, but the other teams had been staying within range of our scores and during that round had actually passed us slightly. It came down again to our last poem the last round and again our coach sent me up to do an individual poem.
And I went INNNNNN. I performed my Unnatural Disaster piece, and it was easily the best I had ever performed it. The audience was really reacting to it, I was pausing at the right moments, and emphasizing the right words and thoughts. I was in my element, doing what I feel like I was created to do. And the piece scored really well.
I needed to score a 29.7 (out of 30) and I scored a 29.4. We lost the Bout by .2 points, and were bumped out of making it to finals. And it sucks.
I’m the current reigning Austin Poetry Slam Champion (2018), a title I’ve won solely based on the caliber of my individual poems. I’ve travelled the country performing my poetry at different poetry venues, high schools, universities, and competitions. On some level, I know that I am good at what I do.
But I could always be better, as I painfully learned at the end of that third Bout. I needed a poem that would score a 30, regardless of who was judging it, or how the audience reacted, or what the acoustics were like in the space, or even what state I happened to be in. I don’t have that poem yet. And because I don’t have that poem yet, my team didn’t advance to finals.
I’ve never been a great loser, but I have become a fairly decent channeler. And as weird as it is to say, poetry slam is my favorite place to lose. It inspires me to write in a way nothing else does. Not a great movie, or a phenomenal book, or even another mind-blowing poem. Losing at slam is like losing at anything else in my life, it sucks, but it motivates me to be better.
So that poem, the one I didn’t have that would have got us to finals. The one that would have punched everyone right in their heart bones. It’s coming. Because I’m not a great loser.
When I first started getting asked, after my first time competing at Texas Grand Slam, I didn’t really think I had a writing process. I just kind of wrote down things I thought about and then found ways to make them sound poetic.
But as I’ve written more and more pieces, I think there is definitely a pattern I tend to follow.
I rarely ever sit down and write a poem from beginning to end. I know several poets who can do that, and I envy the shit out of them for it. Part of it is impatience, sometimes I just get bored working on one of my pieces. Sometimes it’s the environment I’m in, if it’s conducive to dope poetry or not. And sometimes I just know that ‘future me’ can come up with a better transition or phrase if I just set him up, so I’ll write until I think I’ve got to a good stopping point.
But it all starts out with either an idea or a line.
I think 70% of my ideas for pieces happen while I’m in the shower. I don’t know what it is about running water that makes me th
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