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jansensensei (46)in #gaming • 7 years ago (edited)

Cool, man.

Me, I've been playing games since the days of the Atari 2600 and have 14 game consoles (counting my 3 PS3s as one console) and hundreds of games. Ironically enough, though, I am not a gamer...how sad is that? :(

I played my PS3 to death and loved the WiiU but since I bought the XBO my interest started waning and, in the year or two since the PS4's launch, I still haven't even as much as played the games that came with the console, much less anything else... and yet I just Pre-Ordered an Atari VCS within the first hour of launch day. Force of habit, I guess. Simply HAVE to have all the latest consoles! :P ;)

I am currently busy working on two separate VR games but will have to put them both on hold soon as I am in discussions with someone to start working on their VR projects for an as yet undetermined period of time.

Point is, I've been playing games for over 3 decades and for most of my childhood that was all I did but unlike you I didn't become a gamer who writes about games but instead became a game developer who doesn't play games. lol

Good on you for sticking with it. I keep promising myself I will get back to playing some of those games I haven't even taken out of the protective wrap after more than a decade now... but I just have so many ideas that I want to bring into reality that I simply don't have time to play someone else's creations. :(

So yeah, hopefully one day you will get to play some of my games and write about them :D

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jackssimone (49) 7 years ago

I hope someday I can play some of your games, if you have some facts already, you can pass them to me and if I like them I will surely write something of them. Thanks for your coment!

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jansensensei (46) 7 years ago (edited)

The last game I made for myself was back in 2008 and was retired in 2009. Ever since then I've just done contract work and worked on other people's games. The last released game I created for someone was Good Knight Story.

The ideas, dialogue, art and sounds came from the client but we started with nothing and with the exception of a few code tweaks that he made I wrote the entire game myself. He says "I want this feature" and I go "Here it is" and eventually the game was released...

It's free to download so you can get it for iOS or Android here.

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Enjoy :)

p.s. Fun Facts:

Internally the knight (who has no name inside the game) was called Rusty... Get it?
Since I was required to play through the entire game on a regular basis (i.e. one task was "Go through all levels in all languages and make sure the text displays correctly") I built in a cheat code to instantly kill the enemy whenever I hit the K button. With the number of times I was required to play through the game and use that cheat code I got the nickname K-Man :)