The 13-year-old from White Rock, B.C., is the video game developer behind the highly anticipated “Astrolander,” an action-adventure, co-operative game that is set to release exclusively on PlayStation 5.
Trest said he first learned how to code at the ripe age of six, after gaining an interest in video games through his father. After a few years of developing his own animations through free video game development programs, he decided to create his own independent video game studio, which he called Lost Cartridge Creations.
He’s the sole video game developer of his company, but says he gets occasional help from his father.
“I want to say around six or seven (years old) is when I really started getting into coding. My dad definitely got me interested but I really wanted to keep learning and working on new projects, so it’s really expanded beyond that now,” Trest told CTVNews.ca in a video interview on Tuesday.
It reminds me of some kind of weird hybrid between the lunar lander sim and nes mario water world hell, all done up with a 3d envirment but still a side scroller.
(Lunar Lander)
My first thought was that it was some kind of higher quality remake of the AstroLander mini game from TimeSplitters 2.
There’s also apparently an itch.io game called Astrolander by astrofra released in 2016.