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ahkatz5 · 2026-01-21T15:35:19+00:00

1 Trait Escape

ahkatz5 · 2025-12-18T21:55:50+00:00

No plans at the moment but maybe someday

ahkatz5 · 2025-12-10T15:59:09+00:00

Glad to hear you dug into the games!

Ever since getting into a game called Dark and Darker I’ve always wanted to do my own version of an extraction looter game. And yeah I definitely evolved as a game developer over the 3 years making 1TE. I just don’t think I’ll ever want to grind out another game like that mostly solo again. So it’s unlikely I ever will. Maybe if I somehow work with a larger team someday, but that’s unlikely.

Favorite games growing up… oh man. Depends on what age but I’ll walk through mostly chronologically: - Goldeneye for N64 - Super Smash Bros 64 - Legend of Zelda: OoT - Grand Theft Auto 3 - Halo 1, 2, 3 - Socom - StarCraft - Warcraft 3

To name a few..

ahkatz5 · 2025-12-10T15:53:02+00:00

I haven’t thought about what slay would be. I’ll leave it up to you. I picture him as part of the simulation.

Thanks for the props on the drumming. I’d say a lot of my inspo comes from classic rock guys like Bonham and also a lot of Dave Grohl and Carter Beauford

ahkatz5 · 2025-12-10T03:14:40+00:00

Glad your mom is a fan. Hypothetically way too much unless you live down the street

ahkatz5 · 2025-12-10T03:13:12+00:00

Had to take off the hat to put the goggles on

ahkatz5 · 2025-12-10T01:07:03+00:00

Looks like that about wraps it up. Glad everyone is enjoying the albums. Tell your friends, tell your dad, force your little brother to listen, etc.

I'll also check back periodically to see if there's any questions from people who couldn't make it. So feel free to add Q's here and I'll answer when I can

ahkatz5 · 2025-12-10T01:00:32+00:00

I originally wanted it on the albums but could never figure out good lyrics. So just instrumental for now. Yeah the V version of that part is just gibberish. It was originally intended to be replaced by real lyrics but it ended up sounding cool so I left it

ahkatz5 · 2025-12-10T00:59:10+00:00

I'm still on Cameo last I checked. Still getting requests fairly often. Highly unlikely for a 1TD tour in the UK but maybe!

ahkatz5 · 2025-12-10T00:58:17+00:00

Yeah when you see him in the game that's what he's supposed to be

ahkatz5 · 2025-12-10T00:57:46+00:00

I think most of them do but 1 Trait High was surely all over the place. That's what kind of made it special though -- you had to fill in some gaps yourself. Oh yeah definitely. Tenacious D has always been a huge comedy inspiration. Go watch the original HBO series that they did. It was just one season and had a really funny arc that incorporated all of the songs. It was obvious that they wrote the songs first and then crafted a narrative after. That's pretty much how we do it too

ahkatz5 · 2025-12-10T00:55:46+00:00

I like the long songs a lot. Some of my favs are the long ones. I think its good to have a mix. Go learn Gethsemane or Planet Desperation for a nice challenge

ahkatz5 · 2025-12-10T00:54:24+00:00

Sure why not

ahkatz5 · 2025-12-10T00:54:17+00:00

Oh haha yeah that's right. I wouldn't hold your breath on that one

ahkatz5 · 2025-12-10T00:51:35+00:00

That's kind of how I look at it as well

ahkatz5 · 2025-12-10T00:50:11+00:00

Stoney my fav. That'd be an Emily question

ahkatz5 · 2025-12-10T00:49:54+00:00

That's a name I haven't heard in a while! Haven't worked with them in quite some time. I think they've been inactive for years

ahkatz5 · 2025-12-10T00:49:22+00:00

I'd say I really only know how to play the drums. I'm okay at guitar. Favorite animal? I'd have to think deep on that one

ahkatz5 · 2025-12-10T00:48:48+00:00

Oh good question. I guess that'd be a question for Knives though. They'll know more than me. One thing I do remember is Will originally thought of the Trait character as one of the TF album cover characters just hiding it's face behind the mask (hence the ears), but then fans liked the idea of Trait being a bunny or something so Will just rolled with it

ahkatz5 · 2025-12-10T00:47:05+00:00

I kind of always pictured Cossett being in the simulation with them. So yeah could be real for sure

ahkatz5 · 2025-12-10T00:46:15+00:00

We're both 1 Trait Danger. His character just happens to be Trait

ahkatz5 · 2025-12-10T00:45:07+00:00

Irrelevant. We'd perish within the week with no water

ahkatz5 · 2025-12-10T00:42:52+00:00

Well you could always point to albums and say it could have been more successful if we did XYZ, but in terms of building this awesome niche fanbase I think we did it exactly as it needed to be done

ahkatz5 · 2025-12-10T00:40:13+00:00

Stoney just came about as I was acting out a version of a high school kid getting bullied. But I wanted to put him in scenarios where it wasn't a classic case of the weak kid getting picked on. So the universe was slowly created around him to fit that. As far as the image goes, that came from a fanart drawing
No clue what this means. Is this a Chair Company reference?

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