Game Jam on Garrett Hoofman

Dont Get Eaten by Dinosaurs

Mon, 29 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000

The title sums it up pretty well. Don’t get eaten by dinosaurs.

Your goal is to survive 7 days and before it ends, hit 100 stamina (meaning your full)

Chickens are pretty easy to take out, the TRex’s are out for blood though.

Graveyard Shift

Mon, 18 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Graveyard Shift is a live-action card game. Your objective: stay alive.

The strategy is about managing your deck of cards to enhance your character during battle. You’ll use cards to shapeshift into skeletons, wolves and people each with their own unique abilities.

Go forth and smite your enemies.

Instructions
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This game plays a little bit like MtG in that you’re playing cards, and using energy to “cast” them.

You start with a deck of cards which is shuffled at the start of the game, and then every 3 seconds you draw a card unless you have 4 cards in your hand (max hand size).

When you play an energy card, you gain 1 energy.

You can then use the energy you’ve collected to play other cards in your hand based on their cost (Upper right number of the card)

Each card has a description in the bottom.

Shapeshifting cards have stats in the middle for Attack, Defense, and Speed.

You continue playing cards until you run out of cards in your deck, all the while trying to fight off an AI that’s doing the same thing.\

Connected Worlds

Tue, 25 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Theme - Idea was that you’re running a smart home that connects all of your worlds together: Entertainment, Work, Social Life, etc.

Information
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This is running under the OPifex Engine, still under development, could be buggy.

It was tested under Windows 8.1 with an Intel card. If you have a problem running it, please send me a screenshot of the console output and I’ll see if I can fix it.

Or run it from command prompt: Application.exe > log.txt
And then send me the log.txt file at [email protected]

Controls
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Enter - Go Through Menus
Space - Move through time faster
Left Mouse Click - Click on objects

Unfinished
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Kitchen - Character doesn’t eat :/
Restaurant - No social life..
Additional People - Wanted to add kids, wife, co-workers, etc.
Security System
Additional Controls - Air Conditioning, Phone Calls, etc.

The Mad Engineer

Tue, 28 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000

The idea I had for Beneath the Surface was an ugly robot. It didn’t look like much, didn’t have much for skills, but it had an intelligence. An intelligence “beneath the surface” that would allow it to break free, to think for itself.

I didn’t get as far as I had intended, so it’s a brief game as is. Also had some music trouble with the audio system so I’m including a version with and with out sound.

Ultimate Bro-Down: Post mortem

Mon, 06 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Cross Post with Kirk Roerig (@mrpossoms)

Week of Awesome II # Kirk
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On August 24th, a second annual game development competition was posted on gamedev.net. Like many game jams, it followed pretty standard rules.

Adhere to the theme
No development may begin before the start of the competition
Complete your project within the 7 day competition period.

Garrett Hoofman approached me about competing shortly after it was announced on gdn. I said yes, and Garrett began preparing an empty project for the jam.

TAGJam10

Thu, 15 May 2014 14:10:00 +0000

The TAGjam10 event happened from May 2nd to May 12th lasting a total of 10 days. That’s quite a bit longer than your typical game jam which will usually last about 48 hours. I relished it.

In 48 hours time you can create some interesting mechanics, or a cool plot twist, but it’s always hurried, and always a mess of code. With 10 days time it allowed for more polish, more experimentation, and a more thourough understanding of the code.