Games

The game that is like chess but with even more rules. The game works in phases. First is the Play Phase where you can use your actions to play cubies from your hand and activate certain cubies' abilities. Then comes the Move Phase where you move a unit on the board. Then the Draw Phase happens automatically — you get a new hand, some abilities resolve and turn counters increase. That ends your turn.

Unlike chess this game has numerous win/lose conditions. You can still win by capturing the opponent's king, but unlike chess there is no idea of checkmate — the act of capture is needed to claim victory (important because of things like traps). A number of cubies also have alternate win conditions specific to when they are active. There are several lose conditions too: you lose if you do not have enough cubies left to draw a full hand (your bag size is like your health), or if you have no valid moves on your movement phase.

Check out the source code.

Traffic was created in late 2010. With the release of XNA 4 and the ability to publish on Windows Phone 7 as well as Xbox 360, I built another simple game to publish on both. The game consists of a player controlling traffic lights of a pre-populated city to get the average commute time below the goal. This requires using the tools of the game to figure out bottlenecks, open roads and flow patterns. The game starts off with towns and ends in a metropolis.

NOTE: As there is no longer a Zune store, it has since been lost to the sands of time.

Fishbowl was created in one week over my Christmas break in 2008. With the release of XNA networking and the 360 deployment system I was very interested in getting a simpler game together to publish. Fishbowl was born — based on Nut Harvest, a very addicting XNA game that was also very simple. The goal of this project was to test XNA networking; it was very interesting to deal with network prediction to get the game working correctly. The game has a player controlling a fish to eat the most food before the other fish — look out for power-ups and bombs! Fishbowl accumulated over 20,000 trial downloads since January 2009, and hundreds of purchases — enough to cover the cost of the original assets.

NOTE: As there is no 360 indie arcade anymore, it has since been lost to the sands of time.

Camthalion of Andrill was created in early 2005. It was created with RMXP, an engine used by hobbyist developers. I have created many RGSS scripts for the community over the years including the standard development kit (SDK) and my famed squad-based action battle system (SBABS), but this is my first game created with this engine. The game is an RPG adventure to find a sword your father left in a temple when he was killed there; the sword belonged to the King and he asked you to return it. The game included many of my own scripts and was more of a test bed than a real game.

Check out the source code, but this requires RPG Maker XP to run.