So a major part of my life has been playing around in game development. I got my start making Sonic Fan Games way back in the late 90’s in high school, and continue to make games even now. At some point, I decided to revisit one of my older fan games and release the source code for it, which became a video titled “Let’s Narcissism.”
Rather than make that a one-off, I turned it in to a series of videos where I go back and provide sort of a developer’s commentary over the games I’ve made over the years, talking about my inspirations and struggles, including…
- The years-long evolution of my first original game: “The House,” and how I tried to figure out what makes horror games tick (4 episodes)
- My most successful fan game, “Super Mario: Blue Twilight” (10 episodes)
- A run-through of all the levels I’ve made for Super Mario Maker (3 episodes)
- The last fan game I ever worked on, an unfinished classic Sonic game called “Sonic Forever” (3 episodes)
But the real reason I wanted to do this thread is because I’m doing another batch of episodes, this time for a game I created for a halloween-themed game jam called “OverBite.” Episode 1 just went up today, of what will be three total episodes.
OverBite - Episode 1
Episode 1 begins not with OverBite itself, but with a look at two other games I planned for the two previous Halloweens that never came to be.