Studio Spacefarer is a one-man indie game studio in Dallas, Texas. It was created in 2019 by me (Daniel Müller!) as the home of The Waking Cloak and Genogatchi.

It all started back when my little brother was living with my wife and me. He was playing The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons on his 3DS on the couch. When I saw this, it was like a gigantic bell went off in my head, a combination of intense nostalgia and intense motivation.

I could make a game like that, I thought. I’d always wanted to, ever since I was a kid playing games on my dad’s DOS PC or my berry-pink Game Boy Color. What was stopping me, really?

Charged by Shia LaBeouf’s “JUST DO IT” video (I’m not joking), I just did it. I grabbed the most recent GameMaker Studio, since I’d used GameMaker 6-8 as a kid and was familiar with it, and began work on The Waking Cloak.

The Waking Cloak spawned a prequel miniseries, which I call my ProtoDungeons (prototype+dungeons), and a small creature raising side project called Genogatchi (generated+tamagotchi, and yes, I know I misspelled “generated”).

In the time since, my family has grown, and we have a daughter and a son now. It’ll be a while before they can help out around the “studio” (my lil desk), but they’re a constant adorable source of motivation all the same.