Phantom Arcade

Dreams often take place in impossible places with their own landscapes and architecture. These places can be both similar and unique; not just from one another, but from moment to moment. A million slight alterations of one concept then bleeds into another.

Inside these places reside people and creatures that act as unliving simulacrums of life. They're representative of something or nothing. They're one thing and then another. They drift from one sense at the whim of the subconscious.

Many of my ideas, for places, for stories, for games, and for characters come from dreams. Often that means there's not much substance to them, so I do what I can and move on.

Manny is a poltergeist and the manifestation of an old electronics store called CompuMania. Manny takes on many forms: the store itself, a ghostly purple specter, images on a screen, or a conglomeration of technology. When possessing these physical vessels, they go by Digit as a reference to the DigiTech Electronics Corporation which made many of the peripherals present in the store.