About
I'm William Stafford Parsons, the sole creator of Eightomic and long-time software engineer turned solo game developer.
Video games are a perfect blend of art and science, expressive and functional, with one either an asset or a bottleneck to the other.
Creating them opens a rare opportunity to craft experiences to enhance a few moments of someone’s life.
Eightomic brings minimal-style video games with console-quality gameplay to modern desktop web browsers using pure CSS, HTML and JavaScript.
Each game uses only 8 keys on the keyboard, specifically the arrow keys and w a s d.
They're fun for short bursts of memorable, unusual entertainment over a long period of time with intuitive controls and super-polished gameplay to preserve the feeling of wanting to insert a quarter into an arcade machine just to experience 5 minutes of a video game.
Eightomic respects that you probably have a busy life outside of gaming and may already have hundreds of other games to grind, so each game is built without HUDs, XP grinding, achievement hunting, in-game currency purchases, objectives, loot boxes or malicious downloads.
As a result, Eightomic is able to focus on creating fun games where the arcade-style, high-quality, meditative gameplay experience is the only reward system.
If I don't have fun playing the games I create, I don't expect others to enjoy playing them. Therefore, Eightomic games are the only games that I play.
Furthermore, Eightomic conducts open computer science research in the area of optimizing "close-to-the-machine" algorithms that have the most potential to speed up popular game engines when applied correctly, although the sustainability impact goes far beyond game engine optimization.