Gabe here! First time Steemer, Game Developer, and Pixel Artist. Nice place you guys have here!

I'm 26 (nearly 27), studied film/design, graduated, and still homebound as I wait to see what life has in store next for me and my family. I'm part Estonian, part Texan, and the 3rd of 6 kids, most of which are still living here in Florida.

I wish I had heard about this place earlier, I love being present and involved at the beginning of new things, and I can already sense the great potential of this community. I come from Reddit, which I can't help but feel is becoming less reliable and stagnating as a community, so to find a place like steemit with genuinely new ideas is very refreshing!

Despite my education in Film, the past couple years of my life have been spent working as a Game Developer on my first ever project with my cousin Andrew (pictured below, in a very dramatic shot). He's a programming whiz and handles all the technical stuff while my speciality is more in visual and audio design.

As a family-run operation we also have my sister Emily who contributes concept art in her own special style

We've never expected to be going at it for so long, honestly believing we could finish our vision within the first few months (how naive we were). Fast forward almost 2 years and we're still expanding our game on to other platforms while trying to support ourselves in the hopes that we can maybe make game development our full-time jobs. We're fortunate to have a supportive family where we are now, but feel like we're right on the cusp of bigger things and greater frontiers.

I write music (lately all in the style of classic SNES tunes), produce animation, and as of late, a budding pixel artist thanks to the needs of our retro puzzle game. I look forward to sharing current and future projects with the community here, and to start here's just a sample of some pixel landscapes:

Though we haven't been able to update it as regularly lately, we have been vlogging the progress of our work on the game in a youtube series (the trailer is here:

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It hasn't been easy the past couple years, we've faced roadblocks, uncertainty, back-to-back family tragedies, but I wouldn't trade the time for anything else, regardless what comes of it all. And I look forward to sharing future experiences with everyone here as well, and thanks for taking the time to read through all this!

If there are any fellow game developers on here I'm always down to chat, check out other peoples work, or answer questions. Thanks again,

• Gabe