THE ARCHIVES
Just for fun, I thought I'd post a bunch of screenshots from a bunch of smaller games I created in the past. (Providing I actually have a screenshot available). Many of these are unofficial fan projects I created in my teens or just fun experiments in my Game Dev journey! I hope you enjoy this trip down digital memory lane!
...It might get weird.
...It might get weird.
Udder Madness!
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Arcade cow milking action!! Help Farmer Bill fill the buckets with milk as they scroll by, but don't hit the chickens!
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Maniac Outhouse 2: Day of the Toilet Paper
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The best game I never actually made. I got started, made a couple of environments and some sprites for the main character, Harwold, but my Amiga died before I could do any more.
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Butros Butros Fighting
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With my trusty digitizer, I created a cheap Mortal Kombat clone that featured me and my friends along with some claymation characters I created. The final boss was my roommate's cat, Butros Butros Kitty! nd unfortunately the last of the Amiga games that I have actual Screenshots for. :(
Hm. Brian doesn't seem to be fairing so well in these pics! |
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Yep, that's me as the ... green phoenix thing I guess...
During the fighting, random power ups would appear that would give you bonuses if you could get to them before your opponent. My favorite was the Ying-Yang which would swap your life bar with your opponents! |
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Yuppie Pirate!
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Once you've defeated enough enemies on the water, you can go destroy them financially by driving down the property value of their hotels, but doing so can take its toll on your ship.
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More screens from Yuppie Pirate! If you choose to attack another boat, you enter a Street Fighter style one on one fight! Losing a fight will land you in jail for a night.
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As I move on to the Amiga era, I am sadly reminded that none of the games I made for that system survived and only a handful of screenshots. I'll do a couple of screenshots each day for the few games that I have.
Sail the high seas of finance in your luxury yacht and engage in hostile takeovers of rival investors! You are the Yuppie Pirate! |
Spud's Tale ("Box art")
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Wrapping up the C64 days is the box art for Spuds's Tale. This parody of The Bard's Tale was written in Basic and while the game itself no longer exists, this artwork was drawn on cardboard and then laminated!
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Orb of Millean
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It wasn't all silliness and parody in those early days. This game was a straight up fantasy side scroller slash-em-up!
I managed to dig up the original drawing for Orb of Milean! Compare it to the digital scan. |
Captain Hornet vs The Red Cloaks ("Box art")
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No screen shots for this game in the Super Hero collection, but I do have the early stages of this "box art". The game itself wasn't very good, though.
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Archer
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You play as a guy with a bow and arrow - an archer, if you will - who must search the ... mines maybe... in search of bombs to diffuse. This is the cover art and text for the Manual for the Archer game.
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True Spirit
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Inspired by 1 on 1 fighting games like Street Fighter, I tried my hand at creating my own. Unfortunately all that survived of this game was the title screen.
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EARL THE TOMB ROBBER
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Here is the Game Over screen for Earl. (the headline and facial expressions were randomly selected to add variety!)
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Earl in all of his tomb robbing glory! This was my attempt at creating a more cartoon looking sprite that fit the look of platforming mascots at the time.
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Wow, It looks like I'm coming to the end of the C64 era. The truth is that I made several more C64 games, but the rest are lost to corrupted disks I can no longer access. :(
This was probably my favorite! A cute little single screen platformer that played better than any of my other games. And I still have the source code for this so I can still tweak it if I wanted! |
STOP THIEF!
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Of course I wasn't going to mention a Hang Glider stage without showing it to you! Here it is. 1st person hang glider chase in all it's pixelated glory!
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I'll be honest, this screenshot has been altered. Originally it read "Stop Theif". Clearly spelling was not my priority.
This game was inspired by the arcade game Narc, just shooting a bunch of bad guys on the street and occasionally using a rocket launcher to clear out enemies. But then there was the hang glider stage! |
DARK WATER
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Here's that Pirates of Dark Water game in action. Wasn't much to the gameplay, but I was happy with my Ren sprite.
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Totally unofficial fan game based on my favorite cartoon at the time. Never finished this one, but it was headed in a cool direction.
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COSMIC ARK
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Another shot from Cosmic Ark. This is phase 2 of the gameplay where you rescue alien critters from the planet's surface. I loved this game as a kid so it was fun remaking it!
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This was my unofficial remake of one of my favorite Atari 2600 games. I was actually pretty happy with how this turned out!
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Sir Erik
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Back to the games! Here's what that Sir Erik game looks like in action. Pretty simple stuff. Scroll back and forth on 3 levels and shoot all the bad guys to get to the next stage. Repeat.
At this point I was far more interested in sprite creation than actual gameplay. |
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Another from the C=64 superhero collection.
These title screens were fun to make, but I can't imagine doing them today. These were drawn pixel by pixel using a JOYSTICK! Insanity! |
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Captain Blind
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Captain Blind (Title Screen)
The name says it all |
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Here's one from my collection of unlicensed superheros games. This one stared Captain Blind as he beat up plant things. The enemies and background colors changed as the levels progressed, but there wasn't much more to it.
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Archer 2
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Archer 2 had much cleaner graphics than it's predecessor.
Here we are killin' bad guys and eating burgers that were apparently stashed in file cabinets. |
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The Archer got a sequel simply named, Archer 2. This time it was heavily inspired by Die Hard and took place in a multi story office building overrun with terrorists! This time there were no bombs to diffuse, but there were lots of hidden hamburgers to find to restore your health!
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Maniac Outhouse
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In this (barely) Point & Click adventure you had one goal. ...It was a very short game!
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Wartman
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This first one is what got me started in game design. It's a "game" called Wartman for the C64. My friend Roman and I created this using software called The Games Creator by crudely altering sprites and assigning random rules to the game behavior. It was terrible, but made us laugh for hours upon hours!
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