ABOUT:
Some information about who I am:
I am Bas de Groot. I was born in 1997 and I currently live in the Netherlands.
As a child, at the age of six, I made my "first contact" with the world of video games on the Game Boy Advance and it was love at first sight. I was captivated. I spent hours playing on the thing and as I grew older, I wanted to make my own levels. I used to draw those levels and I eventually started to make my own narratives with drawings and toys. That's, I suppose, what led me to getting interested in game development. As soon as I found out that there are these engines, these pieces of software like Game Maker: Studio (back at the time, it was Game Maker 7, though) that actual game developers were making their own games with, you can probably imagine how I felt.
And that's how I ended up starting out as an indie game developer.
The medium of video games means a lot to me. I love games. I believe that they are truly the best medium due to the way they marry interactivity and audio-visual storytelling together. It's the best of all worlds. Aside from that, games have helped me deal with the depression, the lack of self-esteem and loneliness that I felt as a result of being bullied and ostracised for being autistic, being physically and emotionally abused by my father as well as finding out and having to come to terms with the fact that I am bisexual.
I want my games to be the thing that does that for someone else. To share that with someone else.
This site aims to be a collection of my work. I also have a blog, if you're interested in hearing me ramble on about game development, stuff that I like and sometimes political issues like the treatment of LBGTQ+ people and autistic people as well as capitalism (from a leftist perspective.)
And, I have a cat as well, his name's Casper!
I am Bas de Groot. I was born in 1997 and I currently live in the Netherlands.
As a child, at the age of six, I made my "first contact" with the world of video games on the Game Boy Advance and it was love at first sight. I was captivated. I spent hours playing on the thing and as I grew older, I wanted to make my own levels. I used to draw those levels and I eventually started to make my own narratives with drawings and toys. That's, I suppose, what led me to getting interested in game development. As soon as I found out that there are these engines, these pieces of software like Game Maker: Studio (back at the time, it was Game Maker 7, though) that actual game developers were making their own games with, you can probably imagine how I felt.
And that's how I ended up starting out as an indie game developer.
The medium of video games means a lot to me. I love games. I believe that they are truly the best medium due to the way they marry interactivity and audio-visual storytelling together. It's the best of all worlds. Aside from that, games have helped me deal with the depression, the lack of self-esteem and loneliness that I felt as a result of being bullied and ostracised for being autistic, being physically and emotionally abused by my father as well as finding out and having to come to terms with the fact that I am bisexual.
I want my games to be the thing that does that for someone else. To share that with someone else.
This site aims to be a collection of my work. I also have a blog, if you're interested in hearing me ramble on about game development, stuff that I like and sometimes political issues like the treatment of LBGTQ+ people and autistic people as well as capitalism (from a leftist perspective.)
And, I have a cat as well, his name's Casper!