In February I made one of my favorite projects to date - Terrarium, which is an exploration platformer. I haven't really revisited Unity since this project, but will certainly consider it - especially if I'm trying to make a more fully-featured and stable game in the future rather than the quick Flash games I've made so far. The final game didn't feel very coherent either. I can't claim to have done much on the project, but got my feet wet with Unity and C#. The next month I joined a dozen people to make Ensphere, a puzzle platformer in Unity that involved transforming between two states to push blocks around. The game was surprisingly polished, especially for a first attempt! It was pretty scary making a game in 48 hours for the first time ever, but I managed to get the hang of implementing a pretty common control scheme, score system, ability cool down, and a surprisingly complicated piecewise animation system. It was originally going to be a tower defense game, but we scrapped the idea as the deadline got closer. In December 2013 I made Molten Progeny, a WASD/Mouse score attack shooter. It feels like way longer than 6 months since I started doing game jams, probably because ever since I got a little more involved in game development it's what I end up thinking about most. After cranking out six games in as many months, it seems like a good time to review what kinds of games I ended up making, how they could have been better, and focus on what kinds of games I'd like to make in the months to come.

Stencyl dialog extension