Games!
I make games, I'm game developer.
I like to make simple games, often drawing inspiration from those I played during my childhood. For example, Peg Solitaire was one of the first games I ever played as a small kid—not on a computer, but as a physical board game with pegs. Number Puzzle is a game I played in school with pen and paper. The same goes for many card games, like Pyramid Solitaire.
I've never really published my games until now, mainly thanks to Pico-8. While I've been enjoying writing new games and practicing Lua, I've also rekindled my interest in some of my older JavaScript games, and I'll share a couple of those too—specifically the ones I'm most proud of and ones that are not totally incomplete.
You can play my online games on itch.io or just click the banners below!
This game is classic pen and paper number puzzle we played in school during 1990s. Try to fill the grid with numbers from 1 to 25. It's very simple, easy and fast to play. Suitable and recommended for children! Written in PICO-8 dialect of Lua.
Simple maze game for Pico-8. This is not exactly a feature packed game, but rather me practicing to use recursive backtracking algorithm to generate the maze. It went well! Written in PICO-8 dialect of Lua.
Second take on my maze game. This time most of the maze is covered with fog of war. You can't see around the corners, and you have to find six orange objects to activate the exit. Written in PICO-8 dialect of Lua.
Fun and colorful memory card game for kids of all ages! Flip over cards to find matching pairs of fruits, vegetables and mushroom. The goal is to remember where each card is and match all the pairs. It’s a great way to improve memory skills while having lots of fun! Written in PICO-8 dialect of Lua.
This is fun and challenging word search puzzle for Pico-8. Try to find all 12 fruits! Not that easy with 3x5 font. And if is too easy, play the game with reversed words.
Classic 6/9 "Jacks Or Better" video poker for Pico-8. My first touch with video poker games was "Hollywood poker" and "Samantha Fox strip poker" for Commodore 64. So... Maybe that's why I like pixelated video games? Written in PICO-8 dialect of Lua.
In 1991, Microsoft released Entertainment Pack 2, which included a set of "office games," one of which was a game called "Tut's Tomb." In 1994, it was also included in the "Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack," and even in 2001, a version was released for the Gameboy Color. I actually have the Gameboy Color version, but my first introduction to PC gaming was through these entertainment packs in the early to mid-1990s.
Next we have Atari classic from 1973: Space Race. This was my entry to Clone Jam on itch.io. This is not exactly a clone, as the jam rules allowed improvements. So, there is some... Written in PICO-8 dialect of Lua.
This was my entry for 2024 Pico-8 1k Jam, where every entry must be less than 1024 Compressed Bytes in PICO-8. This game (or drawing program) is 385 bytes. Relive some of your childhood memories and enjoy the shake effect! Written in PICO-8 dialect of Lua.
Here we have a classic peg solitaire game with five different board layouts. It's made with Pico-8 for that retro look and feel. So, relax with some good old fashioned puzzle solving. And be glad I didn't name this game "Pegging". Written in PICO-8 dialect of Lua.
Another peg solitaire game? Yes! This time more modern, but still very laid-back version of the game. No score, no timer, no sounds, no hurry... Enjoy some relaxing puzzle solving. Written in vanilla javascript.
I reskinned my old Asteroids clone, fixed all major bugs and now both you and I can shoot those annoying, cringe-worthy emojis. As a millennial who uses emojis wrong all the time, I figured, why not just shoot them all? Written in vanilla javascript.