Science & Technology

I made “The Emu Wars” for the GMTK game jam. It was a simple point and shoot game inspired by the old flash game I used to play as a kid. But the Emu part was the unexpected trouble for me. As I always mention, I have confidence in coming up with ideas, solving problems and programming. But the arch enemy of my gamemaking journey is the art part of it. So when I had to draw and animate an emu, that took me more than 8 hours and didn’t even meet my standards. In my opinion, a game’s looks takes up at least half of the game’s quality, so I was not satisfied and took it down after the jam. ...

link: https://thinkingdarusik.itch.io/two-sailors This was my second game jam entry and did 63rd out of 284. Which is not bad since it is technically top 22%. The main challenge was making the fishing line. in Gamemaker, a curved line, especially a dynamic one is pretty troublesome to make, so I had to spend most of my time making that. In the end, people liked the concept and gave me a good score on innovation. However it was criticized on the design(art), which I knew would happen, but couldn’t do anything about it. ...

This was my first jam and it went horribly… 100 minutes is a hard time even for a veteran and I didn’t know what I was getting into. I spent too much time brainstorming and had debug collision squares all over the screen in the submission. Overall, I just consider it as my first step towards the next jam. ...

I made a twitch chatbot using gamemaker studio 2. I’m using it on my stream so you can check it out when I go live! One of my many philosophies is ’every program is a form of a game’. I applied this philosophy to this project and used Gamemaker to make a chatbot. Since then however, I’ve made a new one using node.js for futureproofing and other utility reasons. ...