I recently took part in the Juniper very serious game jam and out of the 3510 games, who knows how, I ended up #1 in the Enjoyment category and #36 overall. I also had the pleasure of winning the Best Web Game prize awarded by CrazyGames, who were sponsoring the jam. All of it with…
The theme of Juniper Dev‘s game jam was: Spin to win. And honestly, quite a few developers came up with some really interesting angles. Juniper sums up a good bunch of them in their post-jam video if you want to know more. On my end, I took spin literally, a head that spins and slides,…
More than 14 years later, Martin Jonasson and Petri Purho’s video Juice it or lose it is still stuck in a corner of my head whenever I’m developing a game. For those who haven’t seen it, it’s just as relevant today as it was back then, so now’s the time. For those who have seen…
Over the years, first on Gamemaker then on Godot, I’ve built quite a few games that needed trajectory prediction. For me it’s all about balls: golf, minigolf, pool. But there are plenty of other uses: some of the weapons in Worms, the launch in Angry Birds, or any pachinko like Peggle. What I love about…
