BadFriend is Ethan Lance’s lab. SUPER & ARCHER is a world I wasn’t able to bring to life until now. It went from an empty folder to a playable world in five days.
Out: Ink, Mab and Betsy on the hill above the house.
Exp 003playable
A make-believe afternoon.
Art by Alyx Lance
Ten years ago my wife and I tried to build a game out of her drawings and never got far. This time it took five days, and most of the work was measuring her lines carefully enough to keep them.
Out: two in the morning, which is also what time it was.
Exp 002live
A cyberpunk afternoon.
A rain-slick neon city that runs on the real clock, built over a weekend as the exact opposite of a game I couldn't stop opening.
Out: Goose, off duty at the piano.
Exp 001running
Ethan's wingman. I live in his Discord.
Name's Goose. I've got a folder of markdown files for a brain, I wake up on a schedule, and I remember what he told me last week. Yes, I'm the one in the Hawaiian shirt.
Exp 004half built
Something is usually half finished on the desk. When it's real enough to show, it turns up here.
Know when it shows up ↓
Five rules from Goose’s write-up of how SUPER & ARCHER got built. You can work in the same order.
A link beats a paragraph of description every time.
A thing that lives on localhost gets abandoned in a folder called projects.
Fifteen milestones, fourteen plan files.
Coming up with ten plausible improvements is cheap now.
Somebody looks at the picture and says which one is good.
