Hi, I’m Tay Payton.
I make fiction, art, music, and digital experiments for people who want something with a little more depth than the usual polished sludge and disposable content.
This is Payton Projects, the home of my books, artwork, Projects Lab builds, and the growing pile of things I’ve been stubborn enough to make real.
Explore Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Art, Music, and Interactive Projects
If you’re searching for sci-fi novels, fantasy fiction, epic artwork, indie music, or experimental apps and games, this is where it all lives.
- Sci-fi and fantasy novels with high stakes and immersive worldbuilding
- Epic concept art and visual storytelling
- Raw, melodic alternative music with guitar-forward energy
- Experimental code, tools, apps, and tactics-driven game systems
Sci-Fi and Fantasy Novels
If you’re here for fiction, Satellite: Psychic Saga and BlueRidge Academy are strong places to start. They’re shorter, immersive, and high-stakes. GUILDEON is the flagship series. It’s bigger, deeper, and a little more demanding in the best way.
Epic Artwork and Visual Worldbuilding
If you’re here for art, you’ll find the work itself, along with a path to The Beginner Drawing Course if you want to learn the principles behind how I draw, think structurally, and build images that actually hold together.
Alternative Music and Sonic Atmosphere
If you’re here for music, Moody Phantasm leans more toward the raw, melodic, fuzzed-out spirit of bands like Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, and Supercar than anything ambient or ornamental.
Projects Lab: Code, Apps, Tools, and Games
And if you’re here for games, tools, or code, head to the Projects Lab. That includes Strataegis, my tactics-driven TRPG project, which is still taking shape through concept art, systems, and early playable demos.
Why Payton Projects Exists
Everything here comes from the same impulse: to make things that entertain, challenge, teach, or pull people into a world a little deeper than they expected.
Take a look around. You may find something that sticks.