Games and Puzzles
Umbrellas
My first original puzzle, and also the first to become a book in print.
Drywaller
Drywaller is my favourite puzzle, there's a number of rooms and only the number of walls are specified. Mathematically, it's the dual of Sudoku :)
Wordarc
Find overlapping words.
Computer Games
Everyone who makes software sooner or later ends up making games. I think it's a character flaw.
- The only one I ever finished was my Airplane Game
- You're very welcome to use my sprites
- There were a handful of games I started with GameMaker, that I never finished:
- Plane Game 2.0, it's just a little bit of flying. Arrow keys, PgUp and PgDn to move, space shoots, but bullets don't do anything.
- Faux 3D Tank game The most fun part of my airplane game is blowing things up, so I was going to make a multiplayer game with giant robots destroying cities. The plane was to simulate 3D by layering sprites. This is a graphics test of the tank, a few trains and some cars.
Exectuable & source
- 2D/3D Adventure RPG I loved Zelda, here's the start of an overhead quasi-3D game. There're more than a few bugs, but none are fatal as far as I can tell, there are a few types of enemies, a small boss encounter and some goodies, but it's a short game (no health, your score decreases if you're hit). Exectuable & source
- Simple overhead action game This is the first game I made, I'm not happy with the controls and the player really needs to be able to shoot. It seemed like a good idea to just start over rather than re-work it.
Exectuable & source
- Simple overhead action game 2 Here's an improved version of the same game engine, now there's some slight physics (you accelerate a little when you walk), you can use energy to shoot (with the alt-key) and there's health. The level is a lot shorter and less complex. Now it needs the full version of GameMaker, but only a little for sprite rotation, you can probably take it out.
Exectuable & source
- Faux 3D Tank game This one is a multiplayer version of the engine before, it currently supports 2 keyboard (Player 1: arrow keys and "End", Player 2: "WASD" and "C") and 2 joystick players. There just isn't much to do. The screen scrolls really well, the game has health and scores and enemies.
Exectuable & source
Some Screenshots:
