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James Schay

Game & software developer and artist

Hi, I’m James. I make games I’d like to play and software I’d like to use, like Level Crawl, Overknight and Granny Grow. Have a look around!

Level Crawl: a fire combo spreading through tall grass in a stone dungeon
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Level Crawl

18 floors. One life. The crowd wants blood.

A pixel-art dungeon crawler run like a live TV show. Pick a species and class, fight your way through six zones of monsters, traps and rude commentary, and try not to die in front of the audience.

  • Featured by Apple
  • Web - PC & Mobile
  • Free, no ads
Download on the App Store

Games out now

MushPals pet screen: a little mushroom with its hunger, happiness and health bars

MushPals

Raise a tiny mushroom pal.

  • Web - PC & Mobile
  • Free, no ads
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A retro virtual pet in the Tamagotchi tradition. Keep your mushroom fed, happy and healthy in real time, and chase the longest perfect streak on the leaderboard.

Play
NeonVS glowing logo beside light-cycle trails boxing each other in

NeonVS

Ride the light. Cut them off.

  • Web - PC & Mobile
  • Free, no ads
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Neon light-cycle battles for 2 to 8 players. Every move leaves a glowing trail, so box in your rivals and be the last one riding.

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Popzor logo beside a board of red and blue bubbles

Popzor

Chain reactions. Strategic explosions.

  • Web - PC & Mobile
  • Free, no ads
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A puzzle popping game where every bubble you pop spreads your color to the bubbles around it, setting off chain reactions across the board. Play 1v1 or a Battleground of up to four, online or against the computer, or grab a friend for splitscreen.

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PVPong logo above a black Pong court mid-rally

PVPong

Retro Pong, head to head.

  • Web - PC & Mobile
  • Free, no ads
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Online multiplayer Pong. Jump into Quick Play, invite a friend to a private room, or warm up against the computer, then climb the leaderboard.

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Games in development

Atlas Artist: a painter colours a blank hex world around a village

Atlas Artist

Paint a blank world back to life.

  • Coming to Steam
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A cozy adventure where the map starts empty. Renoa, a painter, walks out of her village with a brush and fills the world in one hex at a time, gathering pigments from caves, meadows and old ruins along the way.

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Granny Grow logo beside a phone showing the garden

Granny Grow

A cozy garden puzzle.

  • Coming to iOS & Android
  • Free web demo
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Grandma's garden has gone a bit wild. Match crops to fill the neighbours' orders, plant new beds, keep the grandbaby happy and keep Carlisle the dog out of the carrots. Big tiles, gentle pace, no ads.

Try the demo
Overknight: a knight by a campfire ringed by skeletons

Overknight

Fight all night. Home by breakfast.

  • Coming to iOS & Android
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Every night the dead shuffle toward Emberford, and every night the town flings its bravest knight over the wall. Fill your skeleton quota, level up mid-fight, then spend the bones on fixing up the town by day. Up to four friends can join in.

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Shrinkshot: a first-person view down a toy city street, a giant clown up ahead

Shrinkshot

A first-person toy shooter where every hit shrinks you, and tiny can beat huge.

  • Coming to Steam
  • Alpha Playtest live
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Online PvP in giant toy-box arenas. Every hit you take shrinks you and every pop you land grows you back, so a tiny player slipping between the furniture can still take down the biggest one in the room.

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Walk The Pups: two blocky huskies pull their walker down a park path

Walk The Pups

Walk two huskies through the park without tangling the leashes.

  • Coming to Steam
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A cozy walk with two very excited huskies, one leash in each hand. Steer each dog on its own, hop the logs, keep them off the squirrels and untangle the leashes before they wrap you up, all the way to the end of the park.

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Apps and tools

Arcane Eye Cam: a presenter with a chart floating beside them in one camera picture

Arcane Eye Cam

Put your screen inside your camera.

  • Available now
  • PC and macOS
  • Free, no ads
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Combines your camera and your screen into one video that shows up as a camera in Zoom, Teams, Meet or any other call app. Float your slides beside you or yourself over your slides, and switch layouts with one shortcut. Everything stays on your computer: no accounts, no tracking.

Download on the Mac App Store
DoomJar: stop doom-scrolling, protect your cookies, beside a phone showing a cookie jar

DoomJar

Stop doom-scrolling. Protect your cookies.

  • In development
  • PC, macOS, iOS, Android
  • Free, Pro plans
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Pick the apps and sites that eat your day, give each a daily limit, and stay under to keep your Cookie Jar full. Go over and you lose points, or, with penalties on, a cookie leaves your jar for a charity or a friend who keeps you honest. For anyone whose screen time report reads like a horror story.

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HexToInk picking a color from a photo of the moon, with its paint recipe

HexToInk

Turn screen colors into paint.

  • Available now
  • Web - PC & Mobile
  • Free, no ads
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Upload a picture and pick any color from it, or point your phone camera at anything to see its color live. Get a real paint mixing recipe for it, or build a palette and export it for Photoshop and other design tools.

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