Pony Quest is a 2D platformer game project that I was working on for a few years starting while I was at University. I spent so much time on it because, well, when I started I knew nothing about anything. The whole project was rewritten twice to incorporate improved design foundations.

This screenshot in particular is very important to me; it demonstrates a stable object collision system I designed and implemented (you can see the character standing on the blocks). It took me at least six months to work out all the bugs in the system. I have a write-up about it I will be posting here soon after I’ve finished making all these project posts. This picture took a lot of work to get and I’ve never been more proud of a duller picture.

In University I took a paper on Computer Graphics which covered OpenGL as well as some 2D image filtering concepts. After I finished the paper I started to prod OpenGL in my own time.

The image above is the first test I ran. I did it in LWJGL which is a Gaming Library for Java that exposes OpenGL’s raw functions pretty directly. I made it generate the top layer of the HSL colour space.

A while ago now I wrote a mod for Minecraft that added a “Bot” to the server to perform admin duties. This was mainly because I felt Minecraft’s multiplayer lacked a few features, so I decided to add them myself. Her name was Derpy and she could do all sorts of things like store teleport locations and preserve your inventory when you died (which was not a feature at the time).

My most proud feature on Derpy was her interface with CleverBot, which allowed players to chat with her. In the photo above she is singing the Team Rocket theme song with us, she was a lot of fun.

In Compsci 101 I wrote a Tower Defense game for my final assignment. It was written (terribly) in Java and featured infinite levels of increasing difficulty, it was quite fun! Albeit hard.

Harder monsters (circles) had more evil looking colours. Towers could be upgraded in terms of range, damage, projectiles per shot and rate of fire. There were two types of tower. A standard projectile-type tower and an area-of-effect one, which did less damage, in an area, obviously.

Still the only game I’ve ever “finished” 👾