Asterble

Probably coolest programming-wise, but the worst exercise in gameplay.

Asterble is an asteroids clone, more or less, with a bubble-y theme. I started developing this game in high school and since then it has been a popular place for me to experiment with new programming methods and ideas. It’s been through several iterations and I completed version 6 of the game in February 2013 for the One Game a Month challenge. This version included all sorts of new things that I’ve never put in my games before, like level scripting (albeit simple), an in-game console, and component-based entity architecture. ¹

I also made most of the music and sound effects for the game in version 5 of the game, except for a sound file from Freesound and sounds generated by sfxr, a great tool made by Tomas Pettersson. In version 6 I did the same thing, but shortly before releasing the game I replaced my music with some made by a friend, Jim Nguyen. If you want to hear more of his music, his SoundCloud page is here. ¹

Another game I made, Ourbs, uses much of the same code and programming techniques that version 5 of Asterble used, especially in the sense of rendering. ¹

This game was written initially written in Java using the LWJGL and Slick2D libraries in version 5, but was later rewritten using libGDX instead of Slick2D in version 6. ¹