I’m simply fascinated by indie game development. It’s free from a bunch of programming concerns, and allows us to explore new horizons.
I’m tired of development risks due to money – always money! Nothing is more important in our Capitalist system than money, not culture, not even human lives; money is in the society’s kernel, and it leads to a lotta stress. I’m really tired of it.
I’d really take a way out if I find it, and indie game development seems to be a promising one. Anyway it had never been for me.
Nevertheless, I’ve been using game development for study and to keep my mind sharp since ever.
Said that, let’s get into some side projects I’ve been playing around with. I’m not getting into many details, otherwise I couldn’t quote them all. If you’re looking for more detail about any game or code here, leave a comment. 😉
IMHO, Itch.io is the best game release platform, and I’ve been using it as my personal showcase. Every game we’re talking about in this post you can find there.
I’m talking about Scratch first to sweep it away, ’cause Scratch earns its own whole post.
I think Scratch is a great sandbox to test concepts and the place for sharing ideas.
I have a Scratch project called Casual Funny Games, and we can get into it in another post. Even on Itch.io I have a page for it.
I love fantasy consoles, and my favourite is TIC-80: it has an old home computer feeling which no other console manages to emulate. Therefore I recommend purchasing its payed version.
I’ve published some TIC-80 games of my own, all of them developed using Moonscript:
I don’t wanna talk about this one… 😒
I reckon Godot Engine is the best balanced game engine available:
I got some Godot games I’ve been working on:
If you need performance, I recommend Raylib with Rust.
Raylib is exceptional for 2D games. Not that good for 3D, but still gets the job done.
I have a lot of other Rust applications, but only these two games.
I couldn’t leave GDevelop out. It is nothing its authors claim it is:
Even so it’s really amusing, I usually have a lotta good time developing in GDevelop.
I used to have a GDevelop game in Itch.io, Get Out!, however it has a very sad story: its code wasn’t published to any remote repository, and my hard disk got fried, so I lost the whole code. 😭
It’s still published, but I cannot do any changes anymore.
Do you like any of those games? Want any more details? Code? Development process? Leave a comment!
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