atomic monster

A few years ago a friend and I wanted to increase our productivity on our personal projects.  We liked the idea of game jams.  There some really good ones around now, but at the time needed to keep it a little more laid back and flexible with our work schedule. The  first and sadly only game to come out of this was a very small, very short climbing game.  The rules were simple.  We had one week to make a game that used only 1 button.  This made us really change our focus from our normal comfort zones of game design.  In the game the climber would spin a climbing hook around in a circle and when the player hit the space bar he would throw it in the direction it was currently facing.  The goal was to hit a floating platform and swing up to it.  Once on the platform it began to crumble away so you had to keep moving.  The higher you got the faster the platforms would crumble.  I made the game with Game Maker, I think it was...

Some screen shots from my current project "This is Dungeon", a roguelike dungeon crawling/twin stick shooter.  Like every good roguelike levels are randomly generated and death is permanent .   While there is combat in the game and 100's or really good roguelikes already out there I am more interested in making the game feel like a really solid exploration experience instead of a hard core shooter or RPG.  That doesn't mean it won't have elements from both genres though.  There should be lots to do/find in the dungeons such as hidden rooms, items, traps and other treasures.  When finished the game should only take an hour or so to play through though there will be incentives to keep playing.