TYLER WILDE
A lex Austin, known professionally as Cryptic Sea, makes delightfully weird and surprising physics games. Some of them, like Sub Rosa, are on Steam, but my favourite Cryptic Sea games aren’t so easily found. They come to me like dead drops that were meant for someone else: a download link in a reply to someone on Twitter, a YouTube video about a hockey league no one’s ever heard of, an itch.io page linked in Discord. The last drop I intercepted drafted me into a flying, flailing duel with a stranger: our bodies were robots and our weapons were dunks.