Doomba - My Ludum Dare #28 Game Jam Entry

The theme was "You Only Get One." The compo version is here.

Save the world from Roombas bent
on world domination/cleanliness.
Play it here.

My favorite quotes so far:
"I'll never look at my Roomba in the same way again!"
"Where in the world did you come up with this, lol?"
"The cat-driven Doomba was super cute."
"Nice music :)" (by the dreamy Terry Cavanagh, and only because I used Bosca Ceoil.)
"A very, very, fun game! I love the mechanic."

The gameplay mechanic had been rolling around in my head for a while, and I'd even prototyped a variation before. The idea of the "Doombas" came from a meme on reddit.com/r/funny a few months back. Good fit, I thought.

The graphics were quick and simple, and based closely on the originals.

The code was headachy, especially since I'm new to coding. Each task seemed to require research in the Stencyl forums and a whole lot of hacking.

The level design lacked by far, and mainly because I lost precious time trying to get the end boss right. I ended up with a dozen levels that felt like "examples." Disappointed there.

It's still buggy, I may get around to cleaning up the code and improving the level design. Maybe.

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V.I.P. - My Ludum Dare #27 Game Jam Entry

The Game Jam theme was "10 seconds." I made it in around 48 hours.  Play it here.

Protect the VIP at all costs.
Collateral damage pretty much guaranteed.
Play it here

What people are saying:

"The fact that you can complete the level even when you are killed is great."

"Neat game! Clowns are always evil!"

"One of my favorites of this jam so far."

"It was fun to jump in front of a bullet (or axe). Loved it!"

"I sometimes managed to run into my own guys bullet."

"Favourite moment was a sudden cry of 'clown!' and everyone scrambling and then I took a pie in the face."

"One of the best gameplay I played!"

In the game, you protect the VIP from an assassin hiding in the crowd of onlookers, and you have 10 seconds to prepare. Can you protect the VIP? Will you take a bullet? Will there be collateral damage? Is that a LUMBERJACK ASSASSIN?


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The Hamger Games

Hamger Games is my first published game. Play it here. 

Do you HAM what it takes to survive? 

It was my entry into the Stencyl Jam 2013 competition. The jam itself was 2 months long, but I didn't begin working on Hamger Games until two weeks before the deadline. What a blast. If the response to the game is positive enough, I'll definitely work to see where this game can go.

Still working on my nameless bot game, puzzle platformer, much more involved than Hamger Games.

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