Hi There! I'm Samantha!
I'm a galactic bounty hunter for hire! (Please hire me; I need better food.) This is my website. I hope you enjoy the things it has. :-)
To explore this site, start off with the navigation bar up top! We've got an About section, which has a brief bio and some mailbags. There's a Works section with some of my art and games. Then there's my favorite section, the Maps section, which has maps of over 30 games and counting! Beyond that are all the usual accoutrements of a website, such as Articles, Links, and a Forum.
Sometimes I do other things off this website, such as star in some silly ZZT games or even stream as a low-budget virtual-tuber. There's such a huge universe out there, and I'm always glad I can be a part of it in whatever way I can!
Anyhow, with all of that said, I hope you enjoy all the beautiful sights this site has to offer! I worked very hard on it, and I hope it brightens up your day. :)
Updates
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2025 November 5
Recent life events have transpired that may decrease the frequency of updates on this site for the foreseeable future. I personally am not too bothered by this, but I figure that those in the audience ought to be aware.
In other news, I have a new addition to the ZZT page! It's a little game called Samantha's Sister Wants a Bottle of Milk Right this Second. It's my submission to Oktrollberfest 2025, though it's very light in terms of scope. I had bigger plans, but I lost focus on them while I still had the time to put work into them. I tried making slightly smaller plans the other day, but this Plan B immediately blew up into a proper sequel in terms of scope. Thus, we have this Plan C, which I made from scratch in about a day and a half.
As for the game itself, it's effectively a prequel to Samantha Arantes Goes to the Fridge to Get a Glass of Milk, but it also elaborates on some characters and lore introduce in last year's Awful Dates Done Quick. People seem to like it, but I kinda wish I could have done just slightly more with the concept.
Anyhow, one of the boards is 21 kilobytes (above the standard limit if 20 kB), but I was testing with the modern fork "ClassicZoo" which increases that limit, so I think I accidentally trolled myself into not making a ZZT game. C'est la vie...
2025 September 23
On occasion, current events cause my brain to rapidly produce dangerous amounts of "brain garbage" autonomously.
The recent AUTISM ANNOUNCEMENT from our so-called health minister falls into this category of event.
You can read the conversation my brain produced here, in the comics sub-section.
Thanks to foone for the Death Generator, which made this all possible.
2025 September 1
In February of this year my friend neen released a hack simply called kaleidoscope. I had meant to map it earlier this year, but I put it off because I knew that neen had a version 1.1 update that he wanted to make.
Flash forward five or so months later, after X-Fusion came out, and I looked into the possibility of mapping that Mother of All Hacks. After some failed attempts at trying to open the hack in SMILE, and not feeling like it was yet time to pester Metaquarius for metaphorical keys to the hack, I turned my sights back to kaleidoscope. As it turns out, me deciding to map kaleidoscope after a few months was enough to push neen into publishing v1.1 (which had effectively been done for months). As for X-Fusion, I might collaborate with Ambureon in the future, but I hear another update is in the works right now...
As always, the new map is on the maps page. Disfruit it!
2025 August 21
Since I have finally caught up with my backlog of self-authored the funny (?) images to upload, I can post the comic I meant to post two days ago. It was the result of an intrusive thought that came to me after reading too much debating regarding X-Fusion's difficulty. (Fair warning: I just stole a joke from xkcd (plz don't sue me Randall).)
You can view the comic here.
Thank you for your patience.
2025 August 20
Just going through my comics backlog again. I promise I'll catch up soon!
Today's batch includes:
- A redraw of a shot from Star Trek 4
- A bit of pareidolia
- A rubric for determining your gamer cred
- A scathing criticism of some modern game's
- A depiction of melancholic longing
- A totally legit timeline of the Metroid series
The comic that I actually wanted to post yester's day will come Very Soon.
2025 August 19
It's been a hot minute since the last update here (though probably not the longest in the site's history).
The reason I'm making this post right now is because I made another comic today!!
However, you won't be reading that new comic today, because I have a backlog of junk to get through. To wit:
- The worst kiss I have ever drawn (bad enough for me to put off posting it for several months)
- A scene from my time in MetConst High School
- Items from a ZZT game I made
- A very convincing Switch 3 logo
Feel free to browse the comics section. You might get a good laugh-and-a-half out of it!