Race the clock, smash skeletons, upgrade your car in a spooky modern take on the top-down racer! Featuring nitros, wings, jumps, pumpkins, ghosts, deadly sunlight and more I've forgotten about!
Inspired by the clicker games of the old internet, Idle Acorns brings a narrative to the mobile clicker arena but without getting weighed down by Advertisements, In-App Purchases or Data Mining. Explore the Forest and Ocean with Benny the Squirrel and enjoy everything from Fishing, to gardening. Featuring 4 Mini-Games, Game Center support, and more.
For my very final prompt, I wanted to leave the students with one lasting idea: that I make games for enjoyment and want to do it as much as I can, even when I’m limited to a day or two’s work and 8192 Pico8 tokens. I hope that came across in this little game.
In 2021, the last time I taught the class, I didn’t want to hide the homework in the games. Instead I used the games as ways of presenting ideas. I made several, but I like this one, a reinterpretation of the fortune-telling minigame from Ultima IV.
Dracula's Curse 2020 is a remake of the NES classic Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse. Its creators make a couple of key updates and enhancements: improved character control, newly drawn graphics, and a rearranged soundtrack. Familiar Dracula's Curse enemies appear, of course, but the cast also includes directly ripped and modified versions of characters that have appeared in other classic series games (Super Castlevania IV, Symphony of the Night, and the like).