#slime blaster

In 2022 I had a mental breakdown and quit my job. I was actually pretty important at work so my boss talked me into taking 9 months of leave instead. I decided to spend those months working on creative projects. I had always dreamed of being an eccentric indie game game creator, and I wanted to see if, given total freedom, I could create my magnum opus.

The answer was no, but I did make Slime Blaster. It's not high art, but I actually think it's pretty fun.

The time I spent actually working on Slime Blaster was about 2 months. One to get the game working, and one to polish it up a bit and finish things like the menus. The rest of the time I spent in a depressive fugue, mostly playing video games.

Despite spending hundreds of hours in Gamemaker2, I have never finished another game. There's always something that comes up. Either I get tired of working on graphics, or I can't figure out what the story should be, or I can't come up with interesting mechanics, or some other thing. I'm bored of my ideas now and haven't touched gamemaker in a year. I just can't manage a project.

Maybe some day I'll make a new game. I've given up on drawing more times that I can count, but I always come back to it. For now I'm happy that I at least managed to cross "make a videogame" off my bucket list.