Game By Game

MADE by Ray-Ban, is an HTML5 platform-runner game that works across all modern desktop and mobile browsers.

The game challenges you to save your Facebook friends from a monstrous middle manager, incorporating FB profile pics directly into the game graphics. Ray-Ban product is tied-in through sunglasses scattered about the game that give you power ups (and a change of outfit to match!).

Under the hood it's built with the Phaser game framework, which includes PIXI, and it is all glued together with Require JS. Phaser almost completely abstracted any differences between platforms other than performance. The whole game runs in an HTML5 Canvas, so resizing for various screens was a simple matter of scaling the viewport. It was interesting to do an HTML5 project where CSS work was almost completely out of the equation. Beyond the purely technical aspects of the build, we had to spend a lot of time iterating the gameplay to make everything feel just so, from the pace of the game, the jump physics and hit areas to the power ups, boss attacks and the overall difficulty. We designed the levels in Tiled Map Editor which enables you to design visually with tiles, and then run the game immediately to test out your design. Getting the level design right (or good enough!) was definitely an aspect of dev that took way longer than expected.

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I recently made this beat 'em up prototype. I was mainly trying to get a feel for the fighting and player controls. It also gave me some more pixel art practice and a submission for May's One Game a Month.

Chick is my Ludum Dare entry and April 1GAM.

I got the inspiration from these adorable chicks we were looking after for the weekend. I even recorded their tweets for the sound effects.

Ludum Dare 26 is happening over the weekend of April 26th-29th.

My first time as a contributor was LD24 and I enjoyed it immensely. LD25 was impossible for me so I'm determined to make time for LD26.

TODO: clean up base code and GitHub it. Practise pixelling!

There's a lot missing from this game (audio, levels, ending, etc, etc), but it was fun to play around with and I learnt some new tricks along the way such as ray casting and path finding. I have Derek Yu to thank for the roguelike pixel art.

My next game will be a top-down dungeon crawler loosely inspired by Gauntlet, which I spent a LOT of time playing back in the days.

Happy to have finished my second game of the year Nanotech Defenders.

It's a physics-based shooter where you control a nanobot ship defending cells against evil parasites.

I adhered to the One Game a Month February sound theme by adding loads of audio, including a backing beat that speeds up as the intensity of the game increases.

I don't feel like it's all that good, but I learnt a hell of a lot so that's cool. The sounds are all generated in real time by SiON, the trippy graphics were made with Particle Editor and the physics engine is Nape.

My 1GAM entry for January was ULTRA RACER, a fast-paced two player isometric slot car game.

Really struggled to get it finished but through several late nights, some necessary simplification and corner-cutting it's here and fully playable. There's loads more I could do to polish and improve it, so maybe I'll come back to it at a later date.