In 2009, I dreamed, set off a nuclear bomb, procrastinated, and kicked off the most epic race in history.

I've wanted to be a game designer since I was five years old, and now I am. It feels good going into 2010 with that in mind. This time last year I was trudging through RunMan and gearing up to learn Flash, struggling to make some kind of impact beyond the few people who remembered my old games. I feel I accomplished most of what I set out to do.

So at the dawn of a new decade, I'm feeling ambitious. I've got stuff to say, I've got stuff to play. Soon I'll drop knowledge in the form of Brutus + Miranda, or Miranda & Brutus, a three game Flash series that I am finding increasingly difficult to describe. One of the three games is Orange Anger, or Bacon Lust - you may have thought I abandoned this game, but Tom Sennett abandons no games! (Maybe this year could even see the completion of Hamurai Snackdown or Macrowreckonomic Funkquilibrium. No promises though.)

I intend to tackle new challenges going forward, including but not limited to: physics-based gameplay, procedural generation, the third dimension, multiplayer, and console gaming. One concrete thing I can tell you I'm working on is a new RunMan game. These might all sound a bit typical, cash-in, or trendy, but that's why I'm excited to approach them with my own special touch.

I apologize for lying dormant for most of this decade, as the games industry and the world at large grew into an opulent trainwreck. I suppose there wasn't much I could do back in 2000, having just graduated from elementary school.

But I'm 21 years old now and the world is my oyster. Look out, bitches - the next ten years belong to Tom Sennett.

Labels: Bold Declarations, Brutus + Miranda, RunMan