Games

From the moment I discovered video games (in the mid 80s), I was fascinated with them. So fascinated I decided to develop games myself.

I was a teenager than and had lots of time. So my friend (Michael) and me created a “company” we called Omicron (we even created a logo).

We brainstormed about games all the time, even during classes. We developed few games in Turbo Pascal and created art ourselves… boy, it was fun.

We even sent a game to Sierra Online (in the golden era of adventure games)… but we were politely rejected.

The games were optimized for Dos OS, and were saved on floppy disks… nothings is left to show them off, but few sketches and words.

Anyway, after high school I started new endeavors (like bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering) and almost didn’t have time to play. It was the dark era – the black hole in my video game education. I haven’t played most of the classic games in the first half of the 90s.

After I got my degree I got back to playing video games, and my hunger for creating them came back too.

Lately I started approaching this domain – I joined the IGDA (the Israeli chapter of GDA), participated in the last Global Game Jam and started developing games as moonlight projects.

Gravema

Gravema (game prototype) was developed during the 2009 Global Game Jam (GGJ) with 2 artists and one developer (me acting as a game designer and a producer). The GGJ was a great experience and I wrote a a post about it previously. You can download and play it for free (though you must have a partner, as it is a dual player game).

Evolve!

Evolve! was developed in the “spare time” of few friends and me. It was never really finished. It took much time and and when we got to a ripe game prototype we felt it’s not original enough and terminated the project. Nevertheless, it is playable, so you can have a try.

 

Evil Pigeons

Evil Pigeons is a game prototype developed during the Global Game Jam 2010.  It is a 2-player game between an evil pigeon master that controls the pigeons, who wish to shit-load a fancy car, and a mad car owner who wishes to exterminate the nasty pigeons before they succeed. I wrote a post about this event too.

If you’re too lazy to download and play, just watch this video