#heartBEATbox 5: Heart of the City was made for Global Game Jam 2013 in collaboration with Lianne Booton, Gerard Paapu and Joshua Smyth. It is comprised of a brief rap battle simulator bookended by elaborate cutscenes (which merely hint at the game’s extensive backstory) and a needlessly long high-score tallying sequence which I provided the narration for.
To play this game, you will need XNA, a microphone, and Windows speech recognition.
My second game for Klik of the Month Klub #57 (though one that took well over two hours) was a fan sequel to hugs’ excellent Klik of the Month Klub #53 submission, stanley melberg: enchanted accountant. The music used is the appropriately-titled Inferno from La-Mulana, but edited by me to include more orchestra hits. The downloadable version of this game is, in my opinion, slightly superior.
Passagebalt is a Pirate Kart V submission that fuses Passage and Canabalt. Of all my games so far, Passagebalt has spread the furthest, being featured on FreeIndieGam.es, Rock Paper Shotgun, IndieGames.com, Kotaku, Edge and many other places. Virtually every asset in the game was appropriated, see the game’s page on Glorious Trainwrecks for an extensive list of credits.
Four Pirate Kart V submissions too questionable for solo posts. The first, Stop Using Your Gut: How to Efficiently Measure ROI was yet another Kickstarter reward based on the suggestion “make a game based on the title of any talk scheduled for GDC”. This time, inspiration was provided by Curtis Onuczko of BioWare Edmonton. The second, Coolmann, is a Choose Your Own Adventure game built in Twine. It was a collaboration with two friends of mine (who may or may not have been inebriated at the time) which was released under the pseudonym ‘Von Lemaggio’.
The third, Pixel Perfect Gaiden, is a fangame of toaster’s Pixel Perfect also inspired by Jory Griffis’ Pixel Perfect 3.5: Fan Mix. It was my first foray into GameMaker HTML5. The fourth, The Negging Wife: Gaiden: The Rhinoceros Poop Adventures is a sprite edit of markp0rter’s The Nagging Wife: The Dog Poop Adventures.
Made frantically in the 5 hours before the deadline to the Experimental Gameplay Project 5 Buttons Competition. It was made with the swimming pool / art gallery setting firmly in mind, but feel free to play it at home with the 1-5 keys on your keyboard.
For Global Game Jam 2012 I took an hour out of my team project to interpret the theme as literally as possible. Geez, this was my first game of 2012? Oh well.
My third and final Klik of the Month Klub #53 submission, and the only one made within the traditional two hour time limit. A one button love letter to Animation Library, the unofficial theme of the event as suggested by madamluna. The music is a combination of two short Casio SK-1 recordings from SynthMania which I used based on advice from SpindleyQ.
My second contribution to Klik of the Month Klub #53. I received a wide range of feedback on thurs day after including it in the 2012 IGF Pirate Kart, so I felt compelled to make a sequel. thurs day part ii attempts to compile several notable art games into a singular experience. The graphics are original this time, as is the audio, with the exception of a few samples from Moondust and Passage.
Worker & Parasite is the first of three games I submitted to Klik of the Month Klub #53. It is an adaptation of the skit of the same name from The Simpsons, inspired by the Museum of Soviet Arcade Games and rhetoricstu’s Silly Family. I created the graphics in June and then sent them to rhetoricstu, who implemented the appropriately glitchy gameplay. The music used is Goto80’s Jonkvrouwe, remixed by Mark Gobbin.
A pseudo-sequel to Sergio Cornaga, Procrastinator made for both Klik of the Month Klub #52 and the 2012 IGF Pirate Kart. This game began its life as a proposed sprite swap of Sergio Cornaga, Procrastinator that arose in conversation with my friends Eliza and Michael. The next day I thought it would be cool to actually make it, so I enlisted the help of the finest skull artist I know, Ethan Worley, who promptly drew the vast majority of the game’s many skulls. The music featured is Dock Boggs’ rendition of Oh, Death.
