The Lead • 17

Cristian

Code • Game Design • Animation • Music

ships a broken build at 4am and still calls himself a game dev. somehow the games come out. nobody knows how. him least of all.

Code Game Design Animation Music Bugs

Worked on

One-In Dicempo Secret fishing thing

★ IT WORKS ON MY MACHINE ★ THAT CRASH IS A FEATURE ★ ONE MORE BUILD I PROMISE ★ THE OTHER TWO CARRY

The Confession

Lead by accident

Cristian has been making games since he was 12. at 14 it got serious, finishing projects, learning everything, most of his time going there, thats the fire age. at 16 he gave the whole thing a name and called it a studio. he writes the code, designs the games, animates the things and does the music. sounds impressive until u watch him ship a build where the main menu crashes the game, shrug, and say "noted".

his only real talent is not stopping. the revolver game, the dice game, the music at 2am, all of it exists cuz hes too stubborn to admit when something is a bad idea. lead by default, cuz someone has to hit publish and someone has to get yelled at after. same guy.

How He Works

6 prototypes, 1 game

every project starts as like 6 prototypes. 1 survives. the graveyard below is the other 5. game design happens in the discord vc, arguing with Miruna and Alex until something sticks or someone leaves the call.

when the code wont compile he opens the DAW instead and makes a track. thats where the soundtracks come from. not talent. avoidance. actual truth of the studio: Miruna makes the games look like games, Alex makes 3D that runs on anything, and Cristian glues it together and takes the blame when it breaks. which is always.

age he made his first game. 14 was the fire age

projects. 1 out, 1 cooking, 1 secret

4am

average build ship time

The Jobs

Every hat, worn badly

Code

writes it, breaks it, fixes it, breaks it differently. repeat until Steam.

Game Design

every mechanic in our games started as a joke in the vc. the revolver too.

Animation

makes the robots move. sometimes even on purpose.

Music

the one thing nobody complains about. listen below and judge.

The Music

He does the soundtracks too

original tracks made for Tidecrest games, straight out of the project files.

Dicempo OST

Loaded Circuit

Dicempo

Machine Payout

Dicempo

Last Goodbye

Dicempo

Industrial Step

Dicempo

Ambients from a secret project

Normal Day

u saw nothing

Autumn Day

u saw nothing

Wetlands, Autumn

u saw nothing

Wetlands, Summer

u saw nothing

Before Tidecrest

The prototype graveyard

solo experiments from before the studio. alien planets, weird physics, ideas that never made it. every broken build here taught him something he later broke differently.

At Tidecrest

Builds that actually shipped

dev shots from One-In, Dicempo and the stuff still cooking. click to zoom.

Meet the people who actually carry

u read the confession. now go see real talent.

Alex's 3D Miruna's Art