Green Dragon

Green Dragon is a videogame by me that you can read about and play (for free!) on this very website. Presently it comes in Windows, OSX and Linux versions. I made this game for Ludum Dare’s 48 hour Compo, where it placed 55th out of nearly 1500 entries.

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One night in university I experienced a fever dream that I still think about every day. In the dream I was an adolescent who’d spent his life stargazing through a telescope. I’d been trying the whole time to discover the location of one particular celestial body: A giant, dead green dragon floating somewhere in deep space. Its existence was rumoured, but never confirmed.

On the night of the dream I finally found it. Through the telescope I could see only fragments: a leg, a wing, a neck. Its corpse was disintegrating gracefully out there, scales trailing off into blackness as they blinked in the starlight. I felt I had to go find the thing; to touch it, to commune with it. This was a task of spiritual importance. In my dream the dragon was everything. It was me; the real me. Somehow I assembled a group of vague companions resembling the cast of a late-’90s Final Fantasy game. We departed from our home planet in search of the dragon, a flock of human forms drifting upwards from the Earth.

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The Strawberry Game Jam

Screenshot of The Wheel

I did a game jam last weekend! You can look at the result right here.

This game is a parable about time and society. A person must journey all the way around the surface of the globe, following the footsteps of his doomed countrymen into hell and confronting the ancient thing that brought them there.

I developed this project alongside Dylan Bremner between the hours of 7:30pm on a Friday night and 4:00pm the following Sunday. We used Flash’s fancy newish Stage3D (via the somewhat-interesting StarlingPunk framework). The rings consist of rectangular textures bent over circle-shaped triangle fans using some clever UV mapping and programmable shaders. I am very happy with it. It was a productive and enlightening experience.

Special thanks to Phil and especially Emily for allowing us to stink up their suite for an entire weekend!