Hi everyone, and welcome to superflat world.  This is primarily a game development blog for superflat games, although I’ll also be posting about other cool and interesting things in the world of games, music and life in general.

My name’s Jasper Byrne and I’m the deisgner / programmer / musican / writer in the team.

- I like fried food, especially fish.

- I like making stuff and languages (real and computer.)

- I lived in Manchester for about 8 years.

- I’m half Irish and half English.

- It was probably Jet Set Willy and Lords of Midnight that got me into games.

- I’ve lived in Vietnam, Japan, America, and England.  I was born in London.

- For the last ten years I’ve been a drum’n'bass producer / DJ under the aliases Sonic, Sonic & Silver & The Accidental Heroes.  Myspace page.  I’ve been lucky enough to sell records and tour the world!

- Nowadays I’m mostly a game designer, but I still write music.

- I think games are the highest level of art being explored at the moment, but are still in their infancy. I feel like we’re on the cusp of something incredible, like the first tentative steps of silent movies into talkies.  I hope I’m still a part of it when it happens.

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I’d also like to introduce ‘Lord’ Philip Duncan as my new right-hand man, artiste extrodinaire and a great help with the design.  He’ll be posting on here too.  Say hello, everyone!

So far there’s just two of us, although there are two more who may be joining up (I’ll keep you posted about that)  Up until now, all superflat games have been me only, so it’s really exciting to be working with some talented people.

I began writing games on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum at the age of eight (1984, so you can work out my age…) and it’s been a life-long hobby of mine.  I recently joined the industry as a designer in a great company, working on an great title I can’t mention due to the usual NDA.  

Some of the independent games I’ve done are listed on Moby Games.  I also have an online portfolio that was aimed at a recent jobhunt. There’s access to a couple of games there.

Anyway, just a short introduction for now, but lots more to come, I’ve still got to tell you about our games after all!  I look forward to meeting you on the forums. If you visit, I’ll be there to chat games.  

For now, take care,

superflat.