Welcome to THE FIRST PIXEL.

The is the personal blog of Jason Doucette.

It can be considered somewhat of a subsidiary of Xona Games — my award-winning Xbox & PlayStation indie game studio, co-founded by twin brother, Matthew Doucette and I.  Our motto is “Empower the Player”, which has existed as the main pillar of game design since we first started designing & programming games from the age of 7.  Empowerment is a constant conscious presence.

As you can guess — I am into video games.

However I do not really play them.  In Grade II, a teacher allowed the entire class to play video games, so we lined up.  I asked the teacher “Do we have to play games?” and she said “No.”  Thus, when it was my turn, I shut off the video games and started coding.  The entire class booed, and I was legitimately shocked at the social faux pas I had just committed.

I have fit into society about as well as that ever since.

This blog will contain side projects and articles, including lots of retro stuff.  While most of my projects are hidden, you may view what I am working on on my GitHub page which will give up-to-date links to my YouTube videos.

— Jason Allen Doucette / THE FIRST PIXEL