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In the distant past of 2017, I was laboring over some large video game project or other, and it struck me that at the rate I was going and with the scope of game I had planned, I was probably never going to finish making it. It then struck me that I could very easily resolve this issue just by making something really small. If I made a game very quickly, I could release it immediately and show it…

Sep 23, 2024

[post] Testing, testing...

Okay, I have now created a way for me to write blog posts (and, indeed, to edit the site in general) using the website itself, rather than purely by updating them on one particular part of my home computer. I think this should, in theory, allow me to publish things more often, since so often I'm not on this computer, but sometimes I have something to say! And the process of producing these blog…

Sep 8, 2024

[game] Stars Align

A new game release. Play it here: https://cassowary.me/game/stars-align

Apr 15, 2024

[post] Website design update

Hi! It's been a while since I updated this site. I have still been doing things, but the way this site was put together was starting to get in the way of my ability to keep it up to date. The previous design of this site was kind of a towering pile of weirdness on top of a very basic design I made in college that wasn't really designed to support this much "weight." To be fair, when I started this…

Mar 29, 2024

[game] Automaton

A new game release. Play it here: https://cassowary.me/game/automaton

Oct 1, 2023

[game] Hazel & Hector

A new game release. Play it here: https://cassowary.me/game/hazel-and-hector

Oct 1, 2023

[post] The Pigeon Post Principle

Okay, so I made another game for Ludum Dare 53... Feel free to check it out ! I don't really have much to say on this one other than I'm pretty shocked how many people have been playing it. It's only been out for a little bit over a week and it's already surpassed Squirrelativity's total views over the past 4 months. Pretty crazy. I'm happy other people seem to enjoy this type of game. People seem…

May 10, 2023

[game] The Pigeon Post Principle

A new game release. Play it here: https://cassowary.me/game/the-pigeon-post-principle

May 1, 2023

[game] Mouse-Eating Snake

A new game release. Play it here: https://cassowary.me/game/mouse-eating-snake

Feb 5, 2023

[post] Squirrelativity

Happy new year! A bit late posting about this here, but I did make a new game for Ludum Dare again! There was a sort of secret Ludum Dare in January this year between the two regular ones. I don't know if they intend to make a habit of this or if it's just a one-off thing. But regardless, the theme for this one was 'harvest.' Not quite as seasonally appropriate as it would've been when it was a…

Jan 14, 2023

[game] Squirrelativity

A new game release. Play it here: https://cassowary.me/game/squirrelativity

Jan 8, 2023

[game] Water Bird

A new game release. Play it here: https://cassowary.me/game/water-bird

Oct 16, 2022

[post] Renew My Subscription

Heyyy, I made yet another game for Ludum Dare. The theme this time was 'every 10 seconds' so naturally of course I made a game about time travel... Well, here it is: Renew my Subscription I'm quite proud of the level of polish I managed to get on this. The work I did on the improved version of Chthonic Brilliance, where I added screen transitions and stuff, is really paying off. I'm pretty proud…

Oct 4, 2022

[game] Renew My Subscription

A new game release. Play it here: https://cassowary.me/game/renew-my-subscription

Oct 2, 2022

[post] The Great Flood

I did Ludum Dare again! Apparently I'm better at doing the April ones, I guess... The game I made this time is called The Great Flood and it's about pushing boxes around (of course) but the twist is that there's a constantly-rising water level, and some of the boxes float and others sink. It's pretty simplistic in terms of level design, and it's short at only 10 levels, because I wanted to reserve…

Apr 7, 2022

[game] The Great Flood

A new game release. Play it here: https://cassowary.me/game/the-great-flood

Apr 3, 2022

[game] Chthonic Brilliance

A new game release. Play it here: https://cassowary.me/game/chthonic-brilliance

Feb 5, 2022

[post] Happy new year

Hi! Happy 2022 to all of you. I hope your holiday season went well! 2021 was actually a fairly good year for me creatively, though it might not be super obvious seeing what I actually released this year. Certainly the amount of stuff I released was a step up from 2020 though, where I was basically on a break the whole year! But, I have quite a few projects that I've been working on for a while…

Jan 3, 2022

[game] Long Animals

A new game release. Play it here: https://cassowary.me/game/long-animals

Sep 19, 2021

[post] Chthonic Brilliance

Hi there I did Ludum Dare again! I made a game called Chthonic Brilliance in 48 hours and it's kind of cool! This is definitely the most graphically polished game I've released, which is... maybe more of an indictment of the amount of graphical effort I usually put in than it is praise of this game's graphics, but I still think it's pretty well-put-together for a 48 hour game jam game. Anyway,…

Apr 27, 2021

[game] Chthonic Brilliance (jam version)

A new game release. Play it here: https://cassowary.me/game/chthonic-brilliance-jam-ver

Apr 25, 2021

[post] Website bump

So it's been a minute. I have some stuff in the works but nothing that's been super ready for release yet. But I thought I'd take some time to update some stuff on the website that's been bugging me for a while here. Notably: I added a purple background behind the cream color on desktop, to give the design a bit more visual structure. And (if you'll notice) I changed the font to be a more standard…

Feb 23, 2021

[post] I ended up getting a job

Regular readers of this blog (by which I mean people who read the last post ) will recall that I said I was looking for a job. Well, pretty soon after that post, I actually did end up getting a job at Big Fancy Local Tech Company™, which is pretty cool. (at least I hope so!) So, although this news is a bit out of date, I'm posting it now because I am actually starting my new job shortly…

Dec 28, 2019

[post] Post-Entanglement update post

Ok so! It's been a little bit since I've updated this, but I feel like I should make a post talking about what I'm up to lately, since I just added a new thing to the website. Entanglement. I participated in Ludum Dare again — Ludum Dare 45, whose theme was "Start with nothing." To that end, I produced Entanglement , which is a puzzle game with a really simple/elegant mechanic that I think…

Nov 4, 2019

[game] Entanglement

A new game release. Play it here: https://cassowary.me/game/entanglement

Oct 10, 2019

[post] Update on life

Hi, welcome to the new blog post feature of this website. I am done with college! This is ridiculous, how can this be possible. But, for the first time in my life since I was ~4 years old, I'm excited to not be going back to school in the immediate future. Not that school is bad. Stay in school, kids. But I'm still excited to be done. It's been a long time since I worked on a new game. The last…

May 20, 2019