I have made many tiny games in Gamemaker that are too small for their own pages, and were made when I was much more inexperienced (ages 15-18)
Operation Recycling (Jam Game)
5/2019
Made over a weekend-long game jam.
The theme of the jam was “No Death State”, which led me to a mechanic where you turn into a ghost when you run out of health, that explodes when you revive.
After completing the core mechanics, this is the most effort I’ve done into making my games juicy. Screenshake, plenty of blood, explosions, a faux-3d ammo counter, communicative timer elements, a bar showing dead enemies….
I have a record of neglecting the Polishing stage of a project but here I put my effort in.
Grand Stalingrad
2020
An RTS within Gamemaker.
I created the RTS system when I was 17, but a year later I found it and decided to make some levels for it.
Stalin Killed 40 Million People
10/2020
This is a game played as Joseph Stalin where all you do is shoot, eat, and sleep.
This was created for my High School Art class. I was inspired by an anecdote my history teacher made, which is basically what you are looking at now.
I drew all the sprites myself after researching the time period.
The game is simple, but the clock interupting you to simulate an actual day/night cycle, the absurdly large kill counter maximum, the pictures of Stalin eating lunch and resting, and the laughable idea that 40 million people are standing in single file are waiting to get killed, hopefully show the dark humor in this.
I had to learn about optimizing for this game, as I couldn’t load 40 million objects at the start. I had to only load in NPC’s a few dozen spots before and after Stalin.
I also bragged that once you reached the end it would be really cool, but in actuality I never made it because I didn’t think anyone would reach it.
Dissociation
2018
A short narrative experience
Also created for my High School Art class. Inspired by Night in the Woods, I googled the word “Dissociation” and decided to make a game about that.
Project Colossus
9/2018
A boss rush (with only 1 boss) bullet hell game.
Inspired by Furi & Dark Souls
Death Hander
4/2018
My first game.
Inspired by 2KiksPhillip’s Death Giver series, which gave me what I needed to release my own first game.