Alkemist

I found one of my very first designs in a random internet archive. From 2005.

I wasn’t looking for it. I stumbled on a link to old PSP homebrew games on Reddit and spotted a familiar name in the credits. Mine.

When I was around 15, I made graphics for a homebrew Snake game on the PlayStation Portable. A developer on a forum needed artwork. I drew a diagonal green snake skin, a little apple, some grass silhouettes. Then life moved on and I forgot about it. For 20 years.

Someone had uploaded old PSP homebrew source files to Internet Archive. I downloaded them, fed them to Claude, and asked it to port the game to HTML using the original assets. Minutes later it was running in a browser.

Not exactly a technical feat. But this might be one of the first things I ever designed with someone else. A tiny collaboration from a PSP forum, buried in an archive, brought back to life with a conversation and a few old sprite sheets.

That’s what excites me about these tools. Not the grand productivity narrative, but the weird, personal, unexpected things they make possible when you just follow your curiosity.

🎮 snake.alkemist.no

Five years ago, with a group of friends, we made a little promise to ourselves: make space for art, for play, for slowness; and to come back next year. We’ve kept that promise. Tomorrow, Art Camp 2025, officially starts 🤗

ArtCamp has become our tradition and something we truly look forward to. There’s something about going back to the same place, with the same people (plus a few new faces). Every year, it feels like the reset we didn’t know we needed.

Cheers and thank you, dear friends, for Art-Camping once again ❤️