Our future's gonna be more glorious than our past, We Swear.(tm)

Founded circa 2014, the ShadowSkyes was a group of friends who wanted nothing more but play games and try to make some. We thought it would be fun to make a group that acted as a family, so we all used the same last name in our “artist names”. The last name was Skye, hence the name ShadowSkyes.(Yes, that is not a typo. Yes, we know it sounds weird.)

At first we experimented with Youtube, later livestreaming, but none of us had the strength to pursue those careers for long enough.

Later we decided that we wanted to make games. The team looked as follows:

William Skye as the Programmer
Matthew Skye as the Storywriter
Blase Skye as the Playtester
and Nicky Skye as the Graphics Designer.

We were all assigned “lead” positions, but would allow other members to make suggestions and changes in other departments, the only restriction was that the lead had to agree on it.

Sadly, we did not get far. The programming was done, and even though we were happy with the code, we didn’t have the graphics necessary to playtest the engine, as our Graphics designer’s computer broke down. By the time we got it back up and running, the other two members lost interest in making a game and wanted to focus on just playing the games.(In retrospect, this was a good choice.)

A few years later and the other members basically left. Nobody used the ShadowSkyes name anymore, everyone had their own groups to belong to, except for William. The group took a big hit when we lost Matthew. It was almost like the family fell apart after we lost one of our members.

William started working on the game by myself, rewriting the story and the programming, making plans about the game and its mechanics, design, etc., but we still lacked any form of graphics.

It was almost as fate smiled on the group, because Lily, the girlfriend of William, joined the ShadowSkyes. She wanted to have the same group name as William did, and he couldn't refuse. She’s a great artist, and even though she hasn’t made any pixel art yet, she can provide the group with graphics necessary to finish what I had imagined for all these years.

Even though we’re still just “the group who plays games”, I want to believe that we will soon be “the group who made that game”. Whether that will be a good or bad thing, we'll see. I just want the world to notice what we made.
Our members as of 2019:

William Skye, Programmer
Lily Skye, Graphics designer

We play MOBAs, strategy/puzzle and first-person games, such as Skyrim, Portal 2 and League of Legends. I’m always taking notes on what to and not to do in a game, and I believe that’s the most important thing in game making.
In the future, we might even tackle livestreaming again. We’re just afraid of it for now.