what I've been up to

* I'm now a part-time student. This is partially because I'm moving to a different country from where I'm studying and it'll make things less complicated, and partially to give myself more time to spend making cool stuff. (So I should finally be able to finish Vertex Dispenser!)

* I submitted Vertex Dispenser to the IGF again. I don't feel like I've done a year's worth of work on it since last year, but I have dealt with the main issues that hurt it last time around (i.e. difficulty, lack of a proper tutorial), so I think my chances are better at least. Also, the judging system has been improved, and I think the new system is more favourable to niche games (because they're selected by a jury, rather than by assigning arbitrary numeric scores and taking the average), so who knows? I definitely got something out of entering last year anyway, even though it didn't place.

* Had a couple of my games featured in an exhibition last month: the start show. Pretty cool!

* I've been working on an album of smaller games, each a few minutes long, full of psychedelic sound and colour. I'm taking a "games as rock music" simile and trying to push it as far as it'll go - with hidden tracks, remixes, b-sides, etc.

* Computer has decided to break down again, I guess this was inevitable. So I've bought a shiny new one and am waiting for it to show up.

* Playing a lot of Dominion and Shadows over Camelot.

list of games

edit: I'm no longer maintaining this list. List of games is at http://www.smestorp.com/.

the purpose of this post is to list all of my released games.
I try to keep it arranged in approximate order of interest.

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nourishment

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Vertex Dispenser
strategy/action/puzzle
available on Steam
"spectacularly clever" - Jim Rossignol

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Glitch Tank
fast-paced glitchy action-strategy game for iPad
available on AppStore

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freedom

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Idiolect
unfinished album
includes some of the games below: TSoC, KPSJ, HM, B2010

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Exuberant Struggle
action/strategy
Versus game for TIGSource

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The Sense of Connectedness
abstract/puzzle
for Masquerade

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Knot-Pharmacard Subcondition J
abstract
bricolage game for The Games Collective

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Hyperabuse Monolith
abstract
S.C.U.M. game for The Games Collective

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Babeltron 2010
abstract
S.C.U.M. game for The Games Collective

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Death Lights Dancing
lovecraftian rowing game
for tigsource commonplace book competition

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Smestorpod Infestation
shmup
based on connecting up networks to power things
no sound, cool mechanics

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Glutton Quest
shmup
my first game with 3d graphics, kind of interesting but a bit glitchy

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Chango: Chaos Penguin
turn based strategy retro mashup
Chaos/Pango mashup for Retro Remakes

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Elements.
7 day roguelike
nethack modification
just trying out a mechanic.

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Doppelganger
webcam game thing
(not mine)

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hey, completeness. except my old BASIC games, which don't seem to run anymore. and maybe some java crap, but nothing important and java can piss off.