ChaoticCrustacean

22 - Artist/Game Designer


My website (WIP, will probably never be fully finshed)
chaoticcrustacean.neocities.org/
Twitter (I don't really post on there much anymore)
x.com/CrustaceanChao5
Bluesky
bsky.app/
Threads? (does anyone actually use this site? idk)
www.threads.net/@chaoticcrustacean

So... 2023. What have I been up to this year?
like seriously, what have i been up to
i feel like this year went so fast

I worked on a few small game things? Not as many as last year, but still!

Stardew Valley GBC

I put together a small fanmade demake of Stardew Valley as part of my game design course. That was fun to make! It was fun to make 8-bit versions of some of the songs from the game too. Stardew Valley has a wonderful soundtrack!

Rust and Ruin

I also made a uh... survival text adventure kind of thing? Not entirely sure what to call it. It was fairly fun to work on. Learned how to use json files, which I probably should have done sooner because they are so much easier than just storing everything in an array. Hand of the Spider probably would have been a lot easier to make if I'd known how to use these sooner.

OUT, Light

I also put together two tiny, minimalistic games as primary research into whether it was possible to convey some sort of narrative through just game mechanics, with minimal graphics and text. They took a little longer to work on than I expected, so I didn't manage to really get enough feedback on them to gauge how effective they may have been, but I'm still pretty happy with how they came out.

Unfinished Visual Novel

I've also recently started to work on a visual novel featuring some of my characters. This is my first time seriously trying to make any sort of project in ren'py, and I've got to say, making a visual novel is a lot harder than I had anticipated. You have to draw so much stuff...

Nowhere


I also found this website at like 1am and decided to make something in it. I guess you could maybe consider it a game? You just kinda walk around and look at the different things.

Characters

I've created some more characters over this past year, I think that's pretty cool. Noteable ones include:


Chronos, my horrible little posh clock man with an unreasonably big hat,


Galactis, my silly little cosmic deity. She's playing 4D chess in her mind at all times, it's just that everyone else is playing monopoly or something so her moves don't make any sense and most interactions with her end in disaster. She means well, though.


The Stars, a group of sinister characters who are hiding away, plotting something...

And many more!

Overall, I think I've still accomplished quite a bit this year. Hopefully next year I'll get this visual novel finished. After that, who knows? Maybe I'll try to put together a little game in RPG Maker! I have RPG Maker VX and RPG Maker 2003, so it'd be good to experiment with them both and try to put together some sort of small game! Hopefully I'll create lots of cool new characters next year too, and develop the characters I have some more as well!


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