TDR is one of my favorite Noise/Punk bands from Seattle. They asked me to make a music video for their song "Great Notion" and I was really happy to collaborate with them on it! Alec (the singer on Great Notion) gave me a pretty clear outline of what should happen in the story and I went with it and added some of my own details

I think this is the best animated video I've made so far. I spent a LOT of time on it and even bought a tablet so I could draw more naturally with it

I made a Halloween ROM Hack of my game Ruby & Rusty Save the Crows! Everything is swapped to an evil version. This time you play as poisonous berries named Sapphire and Shiny and your goal is to kidnap all the crows on Halloween night

The enemies are all evil versions of the enemies in Ruby & Rusty, including alien worms, pumpkins that shoot ghosts, and moving gravestones. You'll also collect halloween candy instead of flowers this time around

You can play it on Newgrounds here

And here are some screenshots:

Hey everybody! Wink's Kickstarter has been launched and we're seeing a lot of excitement and support. Our most recent goal reached is the $10,000 Pay the Bug Tester Goal. You can view the handmade Claymation trailer here:

The purpose of this Kickstarter is crowdfunding to make the physical version of Wink for Gameboy & Gameboy Color and to help give me more time to work on it and polish it for final release. It will be released for Gameboy, Color, Phones, and Mac and PC.

If you haven't played Wink & the Broken Robot yet, you can play it on your phone or desktop computer here. Wink is a fun, colorful retro platformer with tons of secrets and an open world to explore.

Thanks for your support!

I made this video for my song Die Alone (streaming link here: https://songwhip.com/max-oakland/die-...) by collaging my drawings and paintings into a video on my computer. The story follows an alien who becomes a ghost and wanders the earth, far away from any home he’s ever known. I really like how it turned out!

I wrote Die Alone sitting on the floor of my room. It was really different from my other songs at the time, but it stuck with me. At first I recorded it with GarageBand on my computer with loud vocals and noisy guitars. After several versions with different musicians, I recorded this one at Orangutan Studios in Missoula Montana. All the way across the country. Never realized travel would seem so impossible

The result is energetic and dark. It has a heavy beat and some really cool vocals. I especially love the bridge where it gets really quiet and echoey and then builds to the most intense moment of the song

I recorded this song at a really hard time when I had to go to voice therapy because I had hurt my vocal cords and I was just recovering after a year wondering if I’d ever be able to sing again. I still hadn’t fully recovered during the recording process, but the result is cool because my vocals are a lot breathier than usual. My philosophy is: turn that mud into gold if at all possible

Die Alone. It’s about knowing that something or someone beautiful is gone, hoping they might come back someday, but not waiting around because you also have a life to live. It’s a dark song. Not exactly happy, but not unhappy either. Just fresh and raw from the pain and disappointment. The title comes from the phrase “You don’t die alone on the road”, which came from nowhere but really fits the overall energy, about moving forward despite all the uncertainty

Listening to it, following me on Spotify and other social media, and sharing it will help me make this hard-won song as successful as possible. Thanks for your support, it’s always helped me keep motivated

Lyrics:

Oh I know it’s gone forever, but I can’t help but wonder

Can’t help but wondering

Filth dissolved in rain, like the clouds crashed and we're OK

You don't die alone on the road. Too many monsters to take your soul

You don't die alone on the road. Just gonna sell everything you know

Oh I know it’s gone forever, but I can’t help but wonder

Can’t help the wondering

Salts like cyanide washing away in the tide

Keep this one in my pocket to remind me of younger days

when the smoke we saw was dragons evolving in their caves

into you and your little sister all alone now in the snow

have we become the monsters when we drive away all alone?

You don't die alone on the road

If you’ve made it all the way down here, you know what you’re doing. Comment “colgogni pie" and I will give you a secret special link

I made an animated music video for my song Antifreeze. "Antifreeze" is a sonic blend of Timbaland, Backstreet Boys, and Nirvana. Featuring a unique and mysterious opening with a vocal sample from Alex Pezeshkian and an unusual 60s organ called the Optigan. The song takes listeners on a journey through a frozen desert night, with a catchy boy band chorus, house baseline, and jungle-sounding drum fill that will undoubtedly get stuck in your head. The bridge offers a slight reprieve with a focus on vocals and light instrumentation before jumping back into the intense and almost happy chorus, complete with a reversed chord progression to end the song on a high note.

Lyrics:

Winter hits the house. Rolling down my mouth

Pour on antifreeze. Like a summer breeze rolling into town

Winter hits the state. Frozen lakes and graves

Pour on antifreeze. Summer hits the sea. Rain keeps pouring down

What do I think I’m doing?

When I freeze up, when I seize up,

When I feel like I can’t breathe

I need antifreeze. Yup

When I freeze up, when I seize up,

When I feel like I’m not free

I need antifreeze, yup

Yup yup yup yup

Winter hits the world. Frozen boys and girls

Pour on antifreeze. Now you’re at the beach

Dive into the surf

Winter hits my life. And it’s your eyes

Pour on antifreeze. Now you’ll run with me

Run and laugh and cry

What do I think I’m doing?

When I freeze up, when I seize up,

When I feel like I can’t breathe

I need antifreeze. Yup

When I freeze up, when I seize up,

When I feel like I’m not me

I need antifreeze, yup

Yup yup yup yup

When I freeze up, when I seize up,

When I feel like I can’t be

I need antifreeze. Yup

When I freeze up, when I seize up,

When I feel like I’m not free

I need antifreeze, yup

Yup yup yup yup

Amazingly, you can preorder a real Gameboy package for Ruby & Rusty and play it on a real gameboy or gameboy color. It also comes with a digital download of the ROM so you can play it on your computer, phone, or tablet.

Also, the first 100 preorders will include a free sticker sheet and soundtrack CD. That’s exciting

Here are some screenshots. You can purchase the cartridge for £40 here