Making Games
October 11, 2026 by Adam in Adam's Games
I continue to have fun making games for my own amusement. The latest batch includes a vehicular combat game inspired by Car Wars of my youth, with destructible cars and terrain that falls apart as machine guns, missiles, and lasers blaze across the battlefield. At this point I'm just playing it for fun - I like the tiny little fights that are over in less than a minute. That's how I remember most of our Car Wars games going - we spend an hour designing our cars and then it's over in a few seconds.
The other game is far more of a prototype. I've played way too much Slay the Spire and love the genre. Jason mentioned an idea for a game months ago and I wanted to see if I could at least get the general feel what he was looking for. It turns out getting animated 2D characters is surprisingly hard, but I cajoled all the various tools to put something together and hand edited a few frames myself. It's not perfect, but there's something about the 80's city scrolling by that brings out the nostalgia in all the right ways.
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