ctmatthews

Indie game developer

a trans woman in the UK making 2D action games about ducks:

Ducky's Delivery Service (Steam/itch/Switch)

Chessplosion (Steam/itch)


i mostly post on my Blog / Newsletter / Patreon


i play fighting games! i won Evo in 2021.


pfp/header by NomnomNami


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My game Chessplosion is 50% off on Steam and itch.io this week, as part of the Friendship Games Week 2023 Steam event!

Friendship Games Week celebrates games with local multiplayer, although Chessplosion also supports online multiplayer for 2-4 players with rollback netcode if that's more your sort of thing. If you want to see an example of Chessplosion's local multiplayer in action, it was the grand finals game at the Frosty Faustings mystery game tournament a couple of weeks ago!

I recommend checking out the full Steam event, as there are tons of other great games on sale such as Rivals of Aether and Maiden & Spell. And once again, here are the links to Chessplosion on Steam and itch.io. Enjoy!



tayl1r
@tayl1r

As I mentioned in a previous post I've had trouble finding my mojo after my last game and that's led me into making a bunch of prototypes. I've jump-started the engines a bit with game jams and I think I have something solid now I could even start dev logging about, but before that I thought I'd explore some of the ideas I abandonded or iced.

(Also most of the art is kitbashed from the free asset store. The individual parts are fine, no judgement, but together it does look like soup)

Factoriods or Facteroids, depending on where you want to splice those words, was taking asteroids (or more specifically super stardust (or more specifically super stardust HD)) and pairing that with automation.

The general flow is the player's ship blows up asteroids, and later baddies, which scatter materials everywhere. The ship has various smelters, crafters and research slots that can turn these into intermediary parts, ammo and upgrades, with the input taps escalating further into the game.

The ship starts off with an infinite mining laser and ramps up from there. Hopefully having a big sense of escalation when they're later burning through tens of materials a second like the TF2 heavy minigun (plus it means they cannot softlock)

It sucked, though. And there are some big issues.



nomnomnami
@nomnomnami

it's my first game to be put on gog! check it out!!

for those who haven't heard of it, BAD END THEATER is a game about bad endings. seriously, there's like 40 of them. you play as 4 different characters, and the actions you choose as each one affects the other routes...! there's a flowchart to help you navigate through all the different paths, and it only takes a few hours to see everything (depending on how quickly you puzzle it all out).

i wonder if there's a happy ending in there somewhere ;)

the game is 10% off all week (on steam and itch.io too) so i hope you'll give it a shot! <3



(crossposted from my blog and my newsletter)

I didn't see this coming, wow.

For those who aren't in the know, Frosty Faustings is an incredibly well-run annual fighting game tournament in Chicago, and it was this weekend. I used to travel there from the UK every year until the pandemic hit, and although I wasn't there this year, I highly recommend the event to anyone who is interested in any of the many, many fighting games that are played there.

One of the events they run every year is the mystery tournament, where every single round of the tournament is played on a different game and you have no idea what you'll be competing in. I've entered it a couple of times at both Frosty Faustings and Combo Breaker and I've seen everything from unusual fighting games like Weaponlord and Dragon Ball Z V.R.V.S., to non-fighting games like Road Rash and Tricky Towers, to board games like Don't Break The Ice. It's a ton of fun, and you never know what to expect!

One thing that I definitely didn't expect when I woke up this morning was a DM telling me that the grand finals for this year's mystery tournament was played on my game Chessplosion, with commentary from @Ryyudo and jmcrofts.

I'm not sure what to say. It's so surreal to see the game played on a stage at all, let alone in the grand finals. Huge shoutouts to Ryyudo, jmcrofts, and everyone who helped organize the mystery tournament and Frosty Faustings as a whole. I wish I could have been there to watch it in person, I hope everyone watching the stream had fun, and I really want to get back into competitive fighting games soon!

And if you want to try Chessplosion for yourself, it's out now on Steam and itch.io!


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