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February 22, 2005

My Games Page

Games Page

Matt Slaybaugh

Games

OutFoxxed!
OutFoxxed! (latest revision: 2004/12/18)

Designed and developed by Matt Slaybaugh, Joe Versoza, Isabel Staicut, and Dave Maccarella

OutFoxxed! is a two-player game using Flash Communications Server that combines elements of Rock-Paper-Scissors with traditional board games such as Checkers and Go
Gladiator
Gladiator (latest revision: 2004/05/10)

Designed and developed by Matt Slaybaugh, Wontae Kim, and Joey Silayan

Gladiator is a one-player game with a core mechanic of having to collect spent arrows before being able to fire again.
Gladiator Concept Realizations
WolfHunter
This first version is weak in gameplay, primarily because the AI is too rigid and the number of user-choices on any turn is too limited. It's also almost impossible to win.

WolfHunter II: Catalaunian Fields
This second version has a much larger board, which opens up the number of choices too much, resulting in a lot of meaningless clicking. This version is too easy.

WolfHunter III: Wittgenstein's Revenge
This penultimate version has an appropriate board-size and more challenging play. An uncaught bug/feature allows multiple wolves in any given space, making it difficult to win.
IceBreaker Concept Realizations
IceBreaker never made it past the concept-realization phase, but it has potential to be a decent game.

Icebreaker
This first version explores the idea of using a Sokoban-style game mechanic against a static, firing enemy AI. It's tricky to win, but possible, mostly an element of timing rather than strategy.

Icebreaker II
This second version has a mobile enemy AI and more stratgic options

Icebreaker III
The final study of the block-pushing mechanic against an enemy AI offers the most strategy, but suffers in the same way as the second in that choices are limited.
Exercises
Ant Farm
I later learned of a number of similar games, but this was my first effort at employing multiple 'cellular automata'-style agents.

Ant Farm
The same game with an auto-generated music feature that is somewhat interesting.

Defender
An experiment in porting the classic Atari game Defender in a slightly different context.

Posted by mslaybau at February 22, 2005 04:02 PM

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