Patient 06
01/13/18
This game has become slightly more relevant recently as it served as base-inspiration for our Dreamhack entry Sins of the Past. Patient 06 was planned to release on 6/6/06 but never saw the light of day.
Super old sketch, probably done at school during some class
This game was our third and final-for-a-decade attempt at a light-system game. I knew the light system from Project C made my art look better with assisting me fake depth, and I learned from Train that light made my dithered edges look pretty sweet. Unluckily though I was a terrible terrible pixel artist who just dithered the fuck out of everything, not to hell but beyond stylistically, you know? It got a little overboard with this project. I definitely didn’t do the light any favors by picking this weird, awkward tile style. I remember being really proud of it at the time, but looking back it reminds me of the Nightmare on Elm Street DOS game, except that game had the good sense to have some character and not assume that any shortcomings in the art would be fixed magically with light.
The plot of this game is silly. It’s about a daughter who is going to visit her father in the psych ward of some “crazy person” hospital, and he’s in cell 06, and he’s patient 06. Upon arriving you find his cell empty except for a cryptic note, then the game starts proper. Or something like that, we didn’t completely get around to fleshing out all of the plot (which was mostly my task). It had a bunch of different versions, but the one that was developed the furthest just feels like a rehash of Project C. Frustratingly lost in a maze of darkness solving boring door-key puzzles while attempted to avoid the real meat & potatoes of the game, the enemies. Continue..
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Friday 13th – Lake Thoughts
10/07/17
Something from 2014 that I forgot I did (common around here)
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Sins of the Past – Concept Dump
10/01/17
Art dump from Sins of the Past, a 72hr game made for the DreamHack Jam 2017. Instead of deleting all of these (like I normally would), I’ll just leave them here instead.
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Smile You Son of a Bitch!
09/30/17
Gizcomic presents:
Smile You Son of a Bitch!
Since we’re not getting full Monster Madness this year, we decided to try and help fill the void. We hope our offerings help.
New comic every day in October!
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Video Memories
09/09/17
Video Memories is the first game made under our Crab Attack title. Not really sure if that means anything, but it’s like, trivia, or something. It was made for the maiden Asylum Jam in 2013, a contest with only one rule:
“You should not use asylums, psychiatric institutes, medical professionals or violent/antipathic/’insane’ patients as settings or triggers.”
VM was made in 48 hours, because we either really hate ourselves or can only manage to finish things under pressure. I wrote the script, built the house, did the art, decided the dialogue triggers, made a font.. the game really reeks of me. I had fallen in love with this sort of ray-casted visual effect that they used in Wolfenstein3D. It hadn’t dawned on me that it could be used for spooks until I played Judith around 3 years earlier, and told myself if I could ever convince Hawk to do a silly horror game for a ‘jam’ that was the direction I wanted to take it visually. Looking back on the style now, it’s a fucking anti-aliased nightmare that shows I was really more focused on my narrative than I was the visuals. Continue..
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HelloWorld.Gif
05/22/17
Bloody hammer
This is the first screenshot I ever remember taking. It’s from the non-existent Zombie Shovel Whack (mentioned briefly here). I’m not completely sure if the screenshot ever got posted anywhere or if it was just something I did to share with Hawk.
The sprite itself wasn’t made by me, either. My first real internet friend, Cloudburst64, had made it originally. I heavily based the sprite I used for the ZSW demo on his work since I was really poor with walkabouts. I didn’t restructure this sprite style into my own until I made a “real game“. Almost all demo games I made at the time have some remnant of a sprite with these proportions.
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Once Upon a Ninja – Poster
05/19/17
What joy it gives me to see this image
Taken from the readme file included with this gem:
Once upon a ninja is a game about Aya’s quest to find treasure, in order to save her starving village. The actual game revolves around Aya sneaking around a castle, trying to gain three treasures. Once she gets all three she can return to her village with them. But in order to get them, she must avoid being seen by the guards.
After you beat the game, you’ll be given a rank based on how fast you beat the game and how many times you’re caught. There are five ranks in all, try to get an A!
Based upon the fairy tale, “Jack and the Giant Beanstalk”
We’ll piece this a part in greater detail soon.
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MUA – Rainbow Waterfall
05/11/17
This is how you convince Hawk to let you have a rainbow waterfall
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Jesus Christ: Bunny Rabbit Hunter
04/19/17
I really don’t remember anything about why we made this game. I’m not sure if it was for a contest, or if Hawk just pitched ‘let’s do an Easter game’ at me or what. Whatever the case was, we landed on the light-sacrilege of Jesus Christ: Bunny Rabbit Hunter.
Only the best pastel greens for Jesus
A wiki entry on the old SphereDev website says that the game was “Made in Sphere for Easter 2005.”, but doesn’t mention if this was part of a larger Easter contest. The genesis of this project isn’t the only thing hazy. According to an entry on Hawk’s old website, the development time of the project was only 3 days and we released on March 27th, 2005. I’m pretty sure that this was a largely Sew-project though, and the credits support this by giving me the sole “Design” credit. Continue..
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Four Pumpkin Porch
04/04/17
Forgot about this one! From Oct. 2016.
Spooky