Games

Asteroid Runner

Asteroid Runner is January's entry for the Game-Per-Month challenge and it is also the first game I have put out publicly. As it is my first game, I wanted to focus more on completing it rather than complex mechanics. Taking inspiration from the simple flash games I grew up playing such as "Ragdoll Avalanche," I created asteroid runner with the simple 'avoid collision' mechanic alongside increasing number of asteroids to push players to try to beat their best scores.

Asteroid Blaster

Asteroid blaster is February's entry for the Game-Per-Month challenge. It is heavily influenced by the old school 'Asteroids' game (go figure). The reason I chose this as the February game was because I wanted to focus on a couple concepts. Firstly, I wanted to improve on my art sytle for the game and use actual sprites and sprite sheets for animations. This was a learning curve for me as I have had zero experience with drawing, art, or animations before this. Although it is extremely amateur, I am proud to say that all the art and animations used in Asteroid Blaster were created by me. I also chose this as the February entry as it provided me with the opportunity to work with projectiles for the blaster, health for the player, as well as consumables with the Star mechanic.

The Loft

The Loft is my first attempt at multiplayer so the game logic itself is extremely straightforward. Basically, there is no game logic. I focused on getting the multiplayer concepts down all while building upon my previous knowledge. Maintaining the standard of multiplatform proved to provide the most difficulty during this project as GWT handles sockets differently than straight forward java would. This made providing a HTML front end client very difficult. However, in the end, we were able to provide a multiplayer server that worked with multiple front end client types. I look forward to using these techniques in the future to create multiplayer experiences with more game logic involved.

Terminal Hacker

Terminal Hacker is basically a terminal game however it is mocked up in a UI to appear as an older terminal that you might see in a spy movie. The goal of this project was to get into the Unity environment and get back into the C# mindset. There isn't much depth to the game as it is a simple 'Guess the Password' game.

Project Booster

So I took a bit of a break at the beginning of the covid outbreak but wanted to get back into the game development groove. This time I decided to start learning Unity as it gives me the opportunity to focus a bit more on the game create as opposed to every single small detail. I believe I got a good introduction to basic game development concepts through my projects with LibGDX and want to focus on the games moving forward. Project booster is a simple PointA-to-PointB rocket booster game that contains 8 levels.

Argon Assault

Argon Assault was a continuation of my current adventure into Unity3D. It is a basic rails shooter that was created in an educational sense. The overall goal was to create a space aged shooter on tracks similar to one I would place in the local bowling alley or arcade. I had a great deal of fun during this project as it was one of the first deeper dives into timelines and animating. I look to practice this game type further and will possibly update this game as well!

Shapes and Gates

Shapes and Gates is one of my first attempts creating my own game within Unity without an outside prompt/tutorial. Basically the idea came to me when I was unhappy with my keyboard dexterity while playing various computer games and wanted to improve it. I came up with a rather simple idea where you had a player 'character' that would change shape and color depending on user input. In order to pass through the gate and not fail, the player needs to make sure that they match the color and shape of the gate. It was also the first time putting together a menu screen using the canvas/UI within Unity. As its not perfect, I would recommend attempting to play this on a 1920X1080 resolution. The game currently tallies up the number of times you die so try to get through all the levels with the least ammount of deaths!

2DCharacter Sandbox

The 2d character sandbox is exactly as it sounds. I wanted to start experimenting with 2d games and worlds within unity and thus created this 'sandbox' to try various things. This project contains some of the following: Sprites created and animated by hand by myself, Sprites downloaded and imported from the Unity store, tileset backgrounds created with rule tiles, movement control, etc

2d Camera Work

This is a simple sandbox again where I wanted to experiment with various camera techniques and layering with my foreground and background entities. This project contains: Multiple layers and associated cameras to provide more dynamic movement between the foreground and background objects. The trees and background are simple modifications of personal photos.

Bruce Leek

After a year of learning and practicing, I wanted to create and release a simple 2d game. Bruce Leek is a simple survival game with all artwork and programming done by myself (minus the unity engine..). The simple game mechanic is that you need to grow the very leeks and carrots you use to defeat your burger enemies. This project made me focus on organization more than ever before as I aimed to release the entire thing within a month. This required me to balance time between artwork, programming, and testing. In the end it was a great experience that helped prove to myself that I can create the game ideas I have in my head and further excited me to continue creating.

2D Fighter Ebsynth

Im not the best at illustration so when I saw Joel Haver's tutorial on creating AI assisted rotoscoped animations I thought: "Could i maybe make game assets with this process?" So without any previous experience made it the weekend challenge to create a couple characters for a simple 2D fighting game. The process uses this application called Ebsynth which basically (grossly oversimplifying im sure) translates a video input (the filmed portion) to a sourced art style (my overly basic drawing abilities). I do like the sort of 'bleeding' effect that happens but would have to smooth them over a bit if I wanted to actually use these as anything more than a fun weekend project. As the title state, they arent perfect but the outputs can sure be interesting. I just attached a subset of the actions I filmed and 'animated' however, all four characters have a 'full' moveset. It was a great learning experience in the end and perhaps some better artist could really make something unique with this! It was a great time learning both photoshop and premiere pro a bit better as well!

Escape Mystic Mountain

You and your team of fellow Explorers wake up to find yourselves trapped on a foreign mountain in the midst of a winter storm. Off in the distance near the base of the mountain you spot an abandoned chalet where you may be able to find shelter and a radio. You must work together as a team to restore power to the chalet and communications array to radio for rescue off of the mountain.

The Places We'll Go

Care to explore the depths of a vast ocean? Cruise through the winding roads of a seemingly infinite canyon? Explore unknown planets in a far away solar system? Grab a friend and a six sided die and be off on your way!