Crablocks is my entry for this year ‘A Game By its Cover’ jam where you take a cart from the Famicase 2020 exposition and make a game with it. I went with this cart because of the cute design and the gameplay ideas it gave me. I was going to make a multiplayer puzzle game (that can also be played alone) where you control a girl and her crab pal, both with different mechanics.
3011: An Office Space Odyssey is my sixth GameJam project where I programmed, did voice acting, level design and visual effects for a puzzle game about the Global Game Jam 2020’s theme: Repair.
Enemy Database is a GameJam game that I made for the ‘A Game By It’s Cover 2019’ jam where you had to use a cart from Famicase 2019 as your inspiration. I decided quickly on Enemy Database, a cart that gave me plenty of ideas to make a sci-fi themed first person shooter where you would recover enemies to a big database while taking part in a small story of sorts.
Hammed Robbery is my fifth team GameJam project where I slept about 9 hours in 2 days in order to program and design levels for a stealth game centered around Ludum Dare’s 44th theme: Your Life Is Currency.
Spiraling Out is my fourth team GameJame project where I slept about 8 hours in 2 days and worked all of the time on one single game. This year instead of working with the usual people we switched it up and ended up working with different artists. I really didn’t feel like working on a game of that type - and I wasn’t really enthusiastic about working on basic gameplay mechanics as I usually do - but I stuck with it and my contributions helped the final product be what it is.
Gear Link Episode 3 is a GameJam game I’ve made for ‘PROCJAM’ 2018 where you had to do -something- that uses procedural generation. I had the idea for a long time to make a procedural deck building game where you would evolve your cards and they would get different abilities and you would fight monsters that evolved as well. My ideas were unfocused and spent a bunch of time designing mechanics that I ultimately scrapped.
The CYMK conspiracy is a GameJam game that I made for the 'A Game By Its Cover' 2018 jam where you had to use a cart image from Famicase 2018 and make a game based on that. Since I'm currently working on multiple other projects, I've decided to take one called CYMK: The Game, which sounded like it was a color-based puzzler. This inspired me to make a puzzle game where you would disarm bombs by picking the right color.
Transmission From Planet X is my third team GameJam project where I slept very little in order to work with everything I had on a single game for two days. Much like last year, my team was already formed with coworkers and friends, and things went pretty smoothly. Even if tensions rose a little at the end of the project, it was an extremely positive experience and I'm still floored by how much a game can take shape just because you have two great artists working on it alongside programmers
Game Design And Other Things is a GameJam game that I created for GiftJam 2017, a gamewhere where you need to make a game specifically for someone to give them as a gift. I decided to make a game for one of my coworkers, and it's a parody of sorts of what their daily job could look like. Although it's a bit silly, the core message of the game is that they're a good person and chatting with them gives me motivation to go through my work days.
Boardungeon is a GameJam that I created for PROCJAM 2017, a gamejam where you need to create some kind of procedural 'thing'. Two years ago, I had created Area 15:51:51, a platformer exploration game where you would go floors of a building, the inspiration taken from the free art pack I had decided to use. This time, I went with @devilsgarage's art pack that reminded me of a board game of some sort. I wanted to make a board game RPG where you would explore a procedurally generated dungeon.
Layer Lady is a GameJam game that I made for the 'A Game By Its Cover' 2017 jam where you had to use a fake cart image from Famicase 2017 and make a game base on that. It didn't take me long before I decided on this one for a fake game called 'Loop Lady'. Inspiring me to create a layered platformer where you would control multiple characters at the same time.
GEAR LINK is a GameJam game that I did for the 'A Game By It's Cover' jam, where you had to use the fake cart image from Famicade 2016 and make a game based on that. I've looked at the different images, and decided on this one.
Tarot Trials is a GameJam game where the core theme is the Tarot. My idea was a roguelike where you draw tarot cards to select your class and the map you're fighting in. You can also use spells and equip gear, but that all draws from the same card pool as well. As you went forward, you could unlock more cards and level-up the ones you already have. First runs might be tough and luck is a big part of Tarot Trials, but if you keep at it you'll finally get all the tarot cards, defeat the Tarot bosses and figure out the game.
3010 : An Office Space Odyssey is my first 'real' GameJam project where I went somewhere physically to only work on a game for two days straight. Furthermore, it was my first personal project where I worked with multiple people on a game, and it shows in the feature set and the scope we were able to attain in such a short time. I also had the chance to work with a 3D artist for the first time, leaving to them the task of producing art assets.
Legend of Loadaia is a 'GameJam' game based around the theme of interactive loading screens, mostly because of the old Namco patent expiring. I had the idea to make a game where you'd wish to stay in interactive loading screens as long as possible because after that you get to fight an impossibly though boss. You unlock minigames by spending crystals in a shop and you upgrade them - and your character, in various ways - up until the point where you can defeat that incredibly dangerous enemy.
Area 15:51:51 is a 'GameJam' project focused around procedural generation of content. It uses this mechanic to generate rooms, music and text. The inspiration came to me from looking at the ProcJam 2015 art pack that was gracefully provided to help designers with finding assets to make their game with. I had fun writing the algorithms to create the music - even though it might not sound like much more than bleeps and bloops - and the way the text is spat out from computer is pretty neat. I think I've done a few neat things with this game.
Magic Darts is a 'GameJam' project where the goal of this particular jam was to find a box for a NES game that we don't know about, and make a game based only on that single picture! I've chosen the Darts game 'Magic Darts' and decided to create a turn-based RPG where you fought enemies by throwing darts on a board filled with runes, using them to cast various spells. I think the idea works well and with my one-week deadline, I'm pretty happy with what I've done.
PoutineTime is another 'GameJam' project, because - as you might have read in one of my recent blog entries - I have issues with quickly making stuff that works and GameJams are the best way to make smaller games and also to get my name out there in a small way! I've decided to make a two player competitive BurgerTime ripoff where you make poutines instead of burgers, and while it was a pain to have everything work, I feel that it's a cool ripoff!
VIRTUAL PET was a palate cleanser, it was a smaller game done for a GameJam based around virtual pets. I've decided to make my virtual pet be like a normal program, accessing files in your computer, writing and reading data, looking at your running processes, etc. Although the deadline for the jam itself was pushed back multiples times, I still decided to stop where I did even if many other features could've been crammed into VIRTUAL PET. It's still a neat thing that shows the kind of games I make!