GameDev

My first game doesn't really exist anymore. All that exists is a gif. As in, it was so small and very tiny that a gif can display the whole thing. I used phaser because I didn't know any other languages besides javascript, and it was pretty awful. My friend did the art and talked about ideas. What was made was basically a prototype of some kind of gameplay, but it's really not much. I...didn't learn a whole lot. It was for the ludum dare that's theme was 'sacrifice'.

So we make Sacrifice Quack. I enjoy it only because the duck getting chucked chaining effect is very funny lol.

My first games were with scratch, but my first real, finished game with a proper game engine was Rampant. It was an endless top down shooter with a basic upgrade system. It isn't very good, it gets boring fast, and I think it's framerate dependent. But I remember it being fun to work on.

I made this back in may 2019, it was my first release, since then, I've made many other games https://rezioz.itch.io/confined-geometry

To be more precise, I started this one long ago, back in 2016 in Game Maker 8, and I quickly dropped it. Many years later, in 2019, I decided to complete it and to release it. I remember having a hard time to migrate it to Game Maker Studio fixing all compatibilities issues.

I'm thinking of making a sequel (maybe in 3D), but I'm not sure about this...

I’m gonna be dating myself a bit here haha, but I released my first game in 2011. It’s even still available to play if you have flash player lol. https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/576782

my first real game was A Single Radish made for a Godot game jam a couple years ago. it's inspired by the single Japanese radish post from tumblr. it was the first game I ever finished.

I learned a lot about coding, but more about how to make a complete feeling experience with limited time and ability. asset design has always been a big stopping point for my projects, but concentrating on a four color palette with simple sprites allowed me to work much quicker. if anyone plays it though you may notice the walls are viewed at an odd angle that led to way more work with tile variations. it also featured the first cutscene I've ever made which due to the crunch of a game jam is made of the messiest spaghetti.

I'd like to do a "Super Single Radish" one day and improve on everything.

I haven't been coding games since I graduated. But in the last two semesters we had a game jam and this was the result. The topic was survival. You play a obese man sitting on a vehicle trying to eat unhealthy food to survive. https://gamejolt.com/games/hungry-shopping/44460

The very first game I can remember making as a kid was a dumb space shooter that I made with Game Maker for MS-DOS (no relation to the modern Game Maker), but the first one I released to the public was a basic platformer called Godawful Quest. It was made for the "I Can't Draw" game jam in 2019, which I saw as an opportunity to finally release something with no pressure to make it look pretty. The whole thing also ended up being a metaphor for a lot of my frustration in trying to make games up to that point.

The most important thing I learned from it was how to scope and finish something.

It's not necessarily worth playing, but here it is anyway:

https://midnightspiregames.itch.io/godawful-quest

The first games I ever made were so long ago...text-based adventure games on the ZX Spectrum in BASIC, and being a kid at the time (~10 years old) I had no concept of programming properly or structuring anything. It was just strings being displayed based on input.

The only one I remember is a Superman game.