Tuesday, February 9, 2021

NEW RELEASE: Clicker Game for Kids (K-12)

 I want to make a positive impact on the world, so I made an educational game for kids. It is called Clicker Game for Kids (K-12) and it is available on potatoclockgames.com for kids, educators, and the young at heart disease I mean heart.

 



Maybe you're thinking hey man it seems like you're just making dumb JavaScript games lately because you're afraid to get back to work on Black Road Sky because there's no risk in making something intentionally dumb and what if you actually give something your all just to see it fail like what would that say about your worth as a person that's pretty scary stuff but actually maybe you should just mind your own god damn business, buckaroo.

Tuesday, January 19, 2021

NEW RELESE: JUMP 666

 I just made one of the dumbest things I've ever made.

Ladies & gents, it's JUMP 666, the title says it all, check it out today on potatoclockgames.com!

I made this game in a few hours, following this tutorial for the bulk of it, after learning that you can do keyframe animations in CSS. WHAT!? Why in the name of fuck would you want to do that? Who is sitting around wishing that CSS was more fiddly and complicated? JUMP 666 aims to answer these questions and more.

For the haxorz, the scholars, the rascals:


Tuesday, December 29, 2020

PCG 2020 Shareholders Profits Report

 Welcome, welcome. Your time is valuable so we'll cut to the chase. As you can see, we are on track to complete BRS version 0.3 last summer? Wait ....

BRS Progress Report
BRS Progress Report
Huh. Well, shit.


Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Black Road Sky Version 0.2 Released

I know I said March, but fuck it, here you go:

potatoclockgames.com/BRS

I had planned on waiting to release this until I had put together some sort of tutorial, but who knows when/if I'll find the motivation to do that. I've already started working on the next version update. Making a tutorial system for a game that's constantly changing and nowhere near finished feels pointless. I'll probably make some drunken YouTube video tutorials at some point.

Let me be clear: this is a buggy, shitty looking tech demo with basically no gameplay. That said, I've been working on it since October 2018 and I'm pretty proud of the state it's in. The physics simulation is working, with realistic orbital mechanics and Newtonian flight. There's a full scale solar system spread across billions of kilometers with no loading screens. You can walk around your ship while in flight, you can dock with space stations, and you can get out of your ship to walk around the stations you dock with, all seamlessly. These are all difficult technical problems to solve, NOT TO TOOT MY OWN HORN HERE OR ANYTHING, which I've never seen combined into a single game (with the exception of the now cancelled Rogue System).

The next version, which I expect to take anywhere from 6 to 12 months to complete, is going to be a pretty boring one. There's a ton of behind-the-scenes kind of stuff I need to take care of before moving on. I'll be adding some very basic space trucking gameplay with contracts to accept and money to manage, but most of v0.3 will focus on cleaning shit up and getting the codebase ready to start implementing ship systems.

Man, I need a fucking hype man or something.

Sunday, February 9, 2020

Black Road Sky is dead. Long live Black Road Sky.

Black Road Sky logo

How to make a video game:

1. Try.
2. Fail.
3. Despair.
4. Return to Step 1.
5. Inexplicably end up at step 5 with a jankity tech demo.

Screenshot of cockpit
ACTUAL GAMEPLAY FOOTAGE UNPARALLELED REALISM

The rebooted Black Road Sky will be available in the form of a shitty looking tech demo with basically no gameplay in about a month.

CONTAIN YRSELFZ.

Thursday, January 9, 2020

848 Days Later, Somewhere in Egypt

My eyes snap open to darkness, body of hair and bone surrounded by cold stone and the stench of my own death. I push against the smooth walls of my tiny prison and feel them give. The sarcophagus lid slides away, falls to the ground, shatters. An unearthly howl escapes from the depths of my body, the wail of a thousand unspeakable deaths rattling across black teeth, withered tongue and lips.

The booming echo of the shattered sarcophagus fades, chasing itself through the labyrinthine corridors of this ancient hell, pyramid of death, and home, home at last.

My wretched face contorts in the sick imitation of a grin. "Showtime."

Wednesday, September 13, 2017