Spinning Plates : The Game for iPhone and iPod Touch

My first iPhone game has been released on the app store. It is a simple game of balance. Try to keep the plate moving while also trying to keep it balanced. Every level you go up, the gravity will be increased. On the normal difficulty every 5 levels the score rate goes up, on the hard difficulty every level the score rate goes up.

Artwork done by the talented Elizabeth Dran.

You can get it on the app store here by clicking on this button.

Tetris

So clearly Ive been on a bit of a old game kick. Wanted to see how long it would take to make tetris, turns out it took 3 days to make this.

The blocks flash but you can turn that off in the options.

Use the config file to change the resolution and windowed mode.

Controls:
Up to rotate the pieces
Left,Right and Down to move the pieces.

Windows and Linux binaries
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Mac OS X PPC only
Mac OS X Intel only

Invaders of the space variety

So here we have a Space Invaders clone I made rather quickly to see how long it would take me to complete. It took about 6 solid hours of work over the course of 5 or so days.

Requirements:

Windows or Linux
OpenGL 2.0 compatible graphics card
Pixel Shaders 2.0 compatible graphics card

Make sure your graphics card has recent drivers if it doesnt work.

We have two versions, Windows and Linux, both in the same zip file.

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Biomedical Engineering

I was recently hired to make games that work with robots that are designed to help rehabilitate certain patients. This is the first game I made. A blood vessel collection game.

I am providing an early version of the game. I can not release further versions since they all make use of robot controls instead of the mouse.

Keep in mind this game was designed not for fun, but for rehabilitation and not for the mouse. The robot, called the Haptic Master, can move in the X,Y, and Z. It also provides a very powerful force feedback, kind of scary. Also scary how it connects to the computer through a network. Meaning any computer can take control of the robot remotely. It would be a pretty nifty game controller if it didn't cost $30,000 for one robot arm.

Anyway since this version the graphics have also been updated to look nicer.

Note that not all features work properly since you do not have the proper equipment.

EDIT: 4-6-2009
The game has been finished and the download removed from here, if you are interested in seeing it in action send me a message.

Orcs go to the beach

The orcs spend a day at a beach, and much sand castling ensued.

This is a demo showing off some of the features of the game engine.
This is in no way a game, just testing out some features to put in future games.
The graphics were made by DJ Kehoe.

Features:
per-pixel lighting
BSP collision with the world
skeletal animation
custom binary format for models and animation information

Controls"
W.S.A.D to move around
Y,H to move up and down the Z axis
Up,down,left,right to move the light source
9,0 to move the light in the Z axis

For windows only, programmed in Linux though
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Shape Shifter

Here is a game I have been working on for the past week. It is another rather impossible game. I only made one level, but you will never pass it. Not even on the easiest difficulty.

Basically you have 4 weapons and your ship changes shape based on what weapon you are using. If you are using the keyboard its wsad to move and the arrow keys to shoot the different weapons.

There is a config file provided that you can use to change the resolution, the default is 1440x900.
Pressing the O key at any time will change the game to windowed mode. Use the arrow keys and the enter key to navigate the menus.

This game uses OpenGL and SDL. I have compiled it for linux, windows and Mac OSX.

Enjoy

MacOSX Download
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fun with binary space partitions!

I recently added the use of BSPs(binary space partitions) for my game engine. In this demo I use BSPs for collision detection with the ground. I added functionality that automatically creates a BSP for any walk mask inputted. The BSP is used to speed up the collision detection process. Without the use of a BSP my computer could only handle about 100 entities colliding with the world and when using the BSP it can handle over 10000 with the same amount of cpu use.

This demo is called Hover Survive, something simple I made to easily test new functionality for the game engine. In this demo you can test how much your cpu can handle. You can press the zero key to increase the number of entities. Before the lines were models of mines that were 170 vertices each. I changed it to lines so that the demo could be a test of the bsp itself, it would slow down a lot sooner if your computer had to render that many vertices.

The demo starts with you controlling the hover car, if you want to just stress test your computer just run into one of the mines. Once dead you can move the camera anywhere you want. "w,s,a,d" controls the camera, you can mouse look and "y,h" moves up and down the Z axis.

The download includes a windows and linux executable. The program was written in C with the OpenGL and SDL APIs. Again, I don't currently have access to a mac so I am unable to compile a mac version.

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