Games
I made games before I made anything else, and I still do. Right now I am rebuilding an old text RPG so a model generates the enemies, the lore and the story as you play.
A text RPG in Java with dice-based combat, character stats and a rarity system for equipment. The 2023 original was 121 commits written entirely by hand, before AI assistants, and it taught me more about programming than anything else I have done. I am rebuilding it now as an experiment in having a model generate the enemies, the lore and the story as you play.
Built in 48 hours for the Global Game Jam 2023. You play Elidar, the village Elder, on a multi-stage quest to gather Evergreen Vine roots and Eldertree Sprouts and brew the Mystical Brew before the village runs out of time. Retro top-down, arcade pacing, and a scope we deliberately kept small enough to actually finish, which is the real lesson of a game jam.
A 2D side-scrolling defence game. Aim a cannon, shoot bombs out of the sky, and survive. Built around precision and fast reflexes.