"Puns, not guns."


Radial Games started out as a simple legal entity required to do business making indie games. Now it's an old company with employees, IP, and contracts with many other companies. That feels weird! Radial isn't my first company but it is my most successful.

I try to make things that challenge myself; I don't like the easy-way-out, which (usually) means I don't use violence or guns as game mechanics. Not necessarily because I don't enjoy that content (I do), but because I enjoy the puzzle of trying to solve game design without using those tools. Constraints are fun!

That means games I work on can be weird and quirky, and are very susceptible to missing the mark completely. It's a risk, but when we manage to release something that resonates, it's very satisfying.

I founded Radial Games with this risky design ethos in mind. I already know how to make a buck selling software; I actively chose to make video games because it is fun, exciting, and very hard.


Why "Radial?" I'm an aviation enthusiast and my favourite planes all tend to have big, beefy, radial engines. I decided to name my company after the engine type, though the flexibility of the term (to mean branching out in different ways, or having multiple connected products, or being all about math or what have you) did sound nice as well.

Ten years later, I recognize that "Radial" is often mis-heard as "Radio" when spoken, or "Radical" when written, and it doesn't roll off the tongue nicely. Maybe I'll get around to changing the name some day?


I can proudly say that Radial Games is celebrating its tenth anniversary in 2018, and in our entire history, we have never gone into debt, taken investment, or had donations or personal savings provided to the company. Sometimes we work on revshare. Sometimes we work on salary. We're scrappy, and we have always managed to keep ourselves afloat with game sales alone. Achievement Unlocked?

However, that means we've been living game-to-game and in a perpetual danger of running out of money. Standard "indie life" I suppose, and we've been supplementing our income with contract work throughout this ten year span. I often worry that it makes our company too reluctant to take big enough risks or chase our hearts; we might be a bit too conservative, in an attempt to guarantee our next months rent. It's a tough problem, I'm working on it!

Here's a complete list of my games, most (but not all) of which are officially Radial titles.


I try to say "we" and "the team" a lot these days, because Radial is so much more than myself now, but that wasn't always the case. Here's a timeline for context:

LANDMARK MOMENTS