Jph Wacheski is a musician and independent video game

Indie game

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 developer in Ottawa

Ottawa

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, Canada

Canada

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Games

Wacheski's games and music are experimental in design. The games are typically in a retro arcade style with unique modern sound design. His game releases bear the name of his studio, Iteration Games.

LockOn and Valence have both received the "Top Dog" award at Home of the Underdogs

Home of the Underdogs

Home of the Underdogs was an abandonware archive founded by Thai Sarinee Achavanuntakul , aka: Underdogs or Fringer on her own blog, in September 1998, and grew to be one of the most significant abandonware websites on the Internet, despite losing its domains to cybersquatters and then briefly...

, and several of Wacheski's games have been featured on the Independent Gaming Web log. His games are included in many collections of free and independent games, both on the Web and on CD-ROMs packaged with magazines.

Releases

• LockOn (2003)
• Joust 3: Revenge of the Lava Troll (2003)
• Seeds: Three Birds of the Apocalypse (2003)
• Wizard of Wor (remake) (2003)
• Electric Yo-Yo (remake) (2003)
• Valence (2004)
• Sub Atomic (2004)
• Lunar Rescue (2005)
• Quiescence (2005)
• 100 Invaders (2006)
• Cathode Raygun (2006)
• Forward (2006)
• Upstream (2006)

Music

Wacheski's music recordings and live shows have been under the names And the Earth Died Screaming, Zug Island, and Jph Wacheski.

He has performed his music live at various live shows mostly in and around Toronto, including A Month of Sundays (2001), Aspect (2002), and The Ambient Ping (together with Leif Bloomquist as Jamming Signal, 2003).

External links

• Iteration Games, Wacheski's site
• GameSetWatch column featuring Wacheski's games
• Interview with Jph Wacheski