Welcome to pftq Creations!

     Most of what I know I have taught myself, with much thanks to the online communities I was in from 2003-2007 when the internet was much smaller. I have been programming and making games since I was 12, creating short films and composing music since I was 14, and trading stocks since I was 18. My teachers and peers often knew me as the kid who somehow got to the right answer but from the "wrong" way. To me, school largely just confused me or made up names for things I was already doing. <_<

     Everything you find here will be made by me. My reflections and thought process can be explored through my Essay Writings for those curious. My full skillset can be found on my Skills Resume page.

Featured Items:

Aiearih (Piano)
Aiearih (Piano)
Aiearih (Piano)
This is probably my most thematically interesting and coincidentally longest piano piece so far. It may actually be more of a series of songs like chapters in a story, but I leave them together since it was originally played on the spot in one session. I'm also finally becoming more comfortable improvising both hands at once and switching fluidly between keys without really thinking about it. ... »

Music, Artwork | May 10, 2016 - June 12, 2016
Piano, FL Studio, Yamaha P155
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Anuwera
Anuwera
Anuwera
Short piece I put together while brainstorming for an adventure theme of sorts. Themes of exploring, traveling to new worlds far from home. , SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube... »

Music, Artwork | October 11, 2014 - October 13, 2014
FL Studio, East West, Maximus, Adobe Photoshop CS5
Downloaded 47 times

Cloudless Dreams
Cloudless Dreams
Cloudless Dreams
Flying and taking to the skies one last time. A final revisit to one of the first songs I ever made. Also on Bandcamp, Newgrounds, SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube... »

Music | March 30, 2014 - March 4, 2018 | Last Updated December 13, 2016
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter, Maximus, AriaMastering
Downloaded 56 times

Darkerly Stormy
Darkerly Stormy
Darkerly Stormy
I've been wanting to remake this song for a long time... or at least the climax of it. The Edirol VST I used in the original Darker Stormy just wasn't strong enough for the climax to me. However, it took me a long time to find higher quality samples (mostly East West) that would match the overall sound I wanted to keep from the original. The new song here essentially starts with a remix of... »

Music, Artwork | June 4, 2012 - July 11, 2012
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter, Adobe Photoshop CS5
Downloaded 65 times

Fair Maiden
Fair Maiden
Fair Maiden
Entry to a contest at psoriasis-cure-now.org for the humor track. Entry on Youtube. Took 4 whole days to make it... Had to hand-draw everything, make the music, make the voices - first time animating and also first time making everything. Am pretty proud of it. Nope, that's not my real voice, but it IS me speaking. Just lots of filters added over. Music I made in FL Studio - pre... »

Movie, Art, Animation | July 29, 2008 - August 2, 2008
Adobe Premiere Pro CS3, Adobe After Effects CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS3
Downloaded 266 times

Fort Wars
Fort Wars
Fort Wars
     The single most played user-made random map script in Age of Empires 3, reaching over 18000 downloads on just AOE3 Heaven alone - not counting ESO (Game Server) distribution and downloads from other fansites. »

Game, Script, Map, Multiplayer | December 19, 2005 - January 28, 2006 | Last Updated January 25, 2021
Age of Empires III
Downloaded 6496 times

Goa Codex
Goa Codex
Goa Codex
Collab with Waterflame. Fun track made in 24 hours. Last few tracks had a lot of influence from goa / psy-trance, so we leaned into that and tried to actually make a full 8-min trance track this time. Trance tends to be long and repetitive (and Waterflame initially bawked at making an 8-min track that just repeats), so this track basically has all the stuff we like to listen to in trance minus the... »

Music, Animation, Movie, Art | April 13, 2022 - April 14, 2022
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter, After Effects

Heart of Forma OST
Heart of Forma OST
Heart of Forma OST
This is music for a small side-scroller indie space game that was under development by a colleague. The game is light-hearted and somewhat retro, so the music will sound cheesy and a little MIDI-ish at times. I went pretty loose with my composing here and just went with whatever flowed to me rather than try to think too hard. Probably the most fun and relaxed I've had composing in a while. A ... »

Music | September 8, 2014 - August 23, 2016
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter
Downloaded 27 times

Hiraeia (Piano)
Hiraeia (Piano)
Hiraeia (Piano)
Accidentally played this randomly at first (literally had my eyes closed and didn't know what key I was in). I actually forgot it for a few days before sitting down to record it. The song's pretty simple to play and somewhat repetitive, but I like it. It has a nostalgic and dream-like feel to it, like you're always on a journey of sorts but never quite finding the place you belong, a longi... »

Music, Artwork | February 5, 2016 - February 7, 2016
Piano, FL Studio, Kawai ES8
Downloaded 27 times

In the Midst of Night
In the Midst of Night
In the Midst of Night
An average hardworking man comes home one night to find in his house a dead body. This was created before Flash died, so it requires installing Ruffle now to emulate Flash: https://ruffle.rs/ The final product of almost two months' work with my club, filmed on 3 separate days and edited in 5 (with no sleep). 36 min. movie with more than 2 hours of outtakes. Serious and funny at the same... »

Movie | February 19, 2009 - April 12, 2009
Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, Adobe After Effects CS4, Adobe Encore CS4, Adobe Photoshop CS4
Downloaded 98 times

Jeopardy Maker
Jeopardy Maker
Jeopardy Maker
Jeopardy Maker is a free, fully-featured program to make your own Jeopardy games, complete with animations and music. Just enter the questions and answers. No Powerpoint or Jeopardy Template needed. Categories, rows, columns, daily doubles... are all generated automatically. The program supports any number of rows and columns (the max. being until your computer explodes) as well as many... »

Web, Script, Tool | April 5, 2008 | Last Updated May 10, 2015
Adobe Flash CS3, ActionScript 3, Jeopardy, Powerpoint
Downloaded 127055 times

Koto Breaker
Koto Breaker
Koto Breaker
Collab between me and Waterflame from 2020. This track was a nightmare to get finished and is basically the most Frankenstein collab ever - everything from project tempos being off by fractions of BPM to random source files being panned off-center - but it was definitely worth it, and we feel like we pulled out all the stops in making this feel like an epic koto music battle - like something ou... »

Music, Animation, Movie | December 13, 2020 - January 1, 2022 | Last Updated October 25, 2021
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter, Adobe Photoshop CS5, Adobe After Effects CS5

Little Kook in a Cabin
Little Kook in a Cabin
Little Kook in a Cabin
Video I made in a club for Halloween 2008. Filmed in one day and edited in seven nights. First DVD we've made that's entirely copyright-free, everything produced by our own or from royalty-free sources. Songs from main menu and opening 3 min. I think you'll recognize from me. All video-editing and animation also from me, done in a single week before Halloween (time crunch!). Thi... »

Movie | October 15, 2008 - November 7, 2008
Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, Adobe After Effects CS4, Adobe Encore CS4, Adobe Photoshop CS4
Downloaded 196 times

Mythic Cops
Mythic Cops
Mythic Cops
One of my earlier successes in designing for the Age of Mythology/Empires games. Oddly enough, I didn't spend much more than a week or two on it, but I definitely had a lot of fun with it. The original project page can be found at AOM Heavengames.com. Mythic Cops is a wacky story of two cops (Jacobble Stone and Carshoo Lase) attempting to catch a dark and powerful sorceror for s... »

Game, Movie | February 7, 2005 - February 21, 2005
Age of Mythology: The Titans
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Raindrops
Raindrops
Raindrops
As the title suggests, think of rain when you hear this song. Think of rain in all its forms (drizzling, shower, storm, hail...) and then think of the sun when it begins to emerge. The initial idea was for the piano to represent rain and the flute as either life in general or the sun (just something counter to the chaos), but it's really up to interpretation. I just happened to think of this s... »

Music | February 26, 2010 - April 11, 2010
FL Studio, Edirol Orchestral
Downloaded 127 times

Tech Trader
Tech Trader
Tech Trader
Tech Trader is a fully autonomous system trading thousands of stocks simultaneously with no human intervention. It is unique from conventional algorithmic systems in that it takes a "human" approach to markets. It is not quant. It is not stat-arb. It is not high frequency. It is a program that looks at stocks the same way a person would but with the cold discipline and infinite attention sp... »

Web, Script, Tool | June 27, 2012 - July 5, 2012 | Last Updated October 17, 2015
Stocks, Trading, Tech Trader, AI
Downloaded 9928 times

The World Exchange
The World Exchange
The World Exchange
A fully operational proof-of-concept site showcasing most of Ripple/XRP's functionality as a decentralized exchange. »

Script, Website, Tool | September 4, 2016 - September 21, 2016
Ripple, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Exchange

Winter Solstice
Winter Solstice
Winter Solstice
This is a peaceful winter-themed track co-composed by Waterflame and pftq. Ironically the song was named without any awareness to what day the winter solstice actually was, so it was just pure coincidence. There was a bit of a tug-of-war between the song going in Waterflame's happier direction and pftq's more haunting direction, and it eventually became something of a Nightmare Before Christmas ... »

Music, Artwork, Animation, Movie | December 17, 2021 - December 20, 2021 | Last Updated December 21, 2021
FL Studio, East West, FabFilter, 8dio, Adobe Photoshop CS5, Adobe After Effects CS5