Damo's Kid's
Party Cookbook

Addendum — Coles, wrists, and the breadbox C64

Mum wasn't just lamingtons. She was so good at custom kids birthday cakes that Coles hired her in the mid–late 80s to make them professionally — supermarket scale, home-kitchen soul.

Poor thing developed repetitive stress injury in her wrists from the volume. She needed an operation. Coles paid out $10,000.

Mum spent $1,000 of that on my first breadbox Commodore 64 — tape deck included — plus Brian Bloodaxe and Bombjack. Party food paid for the machine that eventually shipped Grav MUD.

From fairy bread to .mud files. Mum's cakes → Coles → RSI → payout → LOAD "*",8,1. The through-line is real. <3 8)

To Mum — lamingtons, birthday cakes, and the best hardware subsidy in Wishart history.
Chief

Addendum II — Static shock and the C64C

Later on I accidentally fried my C64 and monitor — static shock off the screen. One touch. Both dead. Peak kid-meets-CRT energy.

Mum and Dad subsidized a new Commodore 64C anyway. Not because I was careful. Because they could see I was a budding coder — already hooked on LOAD "*",8,1 and not letting go.

Breadbox → lightning → C64C. First machine from Mum's cake payout; second from Mum and Dad reading the room. Family IP that scales.

To Mum and Dad — for backing the kid who blew up the monitor and kept typing.
Chief · <3 8)

Addendum III — SEUCK, ECP, and Dad's light pen

The C64C led directly to my first SEUCK game — published commercially with ECP (Electronic &amp; Computer Products — now Electronic Arts Australia).

Dad drew the title screen with a homemade light pen and Koala Paint. Mum subsidized the hardware. Dad subsidized the pixel art. Chief subsidized the shoot-'em-up chaos in Shoot-'Em-Up Construction Kit. Family studio before family studio was a thing.

The Final Attack: Resurgence — the sequel — coming soon to web, Steam, and mobile. From fairy bread to .mud to cartridges to Phaser. Same through-line. Different boss fight. (Not Grurgence. Chief has standards.)

To Dad — Koala Paint, light pen, and the title screen that made it real.
Chief · FutureVision Labs · <3 8)

Addendum IV — FutureVision Designs (1989–1992)

Then 1989–1992: I formed FutureVision Designs — a handful of demos, big dreams, teenage ambition. Never finished a commercial game though. Teen Damo could not get his head around bucket-based sprite multiplexing. The boss fight was internal. The sprites were theoretical. :P

FutureVision Designs and FutureVision Labs — same lineage, different decade. Chief and Kersey are staging a comeback soon. Bucket multiplexing optional when Phaser exists. &lt;3

Unfinished demos age like trifle — layers still worth eating.
Chief · comeback loading… · <3 :D 8)

Volume 2 — The 42-Year Revival (2026)

1984 → 2026. Eleven-year-old Damo illustrated the recipes. Fifty-three-year-old Chief ships them in Grav MUD. The universe did not ask for a deeper meaning. It got 42 anyway.

Thick Mango Tribbles — jelly at 4× concentration, poured into silicone bear molds, fridge-set. Instant gummy bears. Orange mango. Totes optimal.

Chief is buying silicone jelly bear molds. Gemzy Too gets the misshapen ones. FutureVision Labs Confectionery Division is open.

This page exists to prove Grav MUD can ship a whole cookbook from one readable spec file — hero, quote, recipe cards, manifesto — no Elementor widget #47.

GravMUD Host skeleton candidate: party-cookbook — because not every site is an expose about Brian Teeman.

Illustrations pending. Appetite ready.
Damo, age 11 — and 42 years later
FutureVision Labs · Wishart QLD · <3 8)