The Empire of Dreams
‘The Empire of Dreams’ is a (point-and-click) exploration game, set in a world inspired by the paintings of surrealist René Magritte.
You must choose a character to go and explore. Collect the tool items which you can use to recover 5 treasure items, so you can retrieve your favorite pipe and find your way home.
Every new game you start will have some objects distributes randomly to keep things interesting and every character has their own specific tool, already in their inventory.
The game was built using GB Studio, with an export as a Gameboy ROM and an HTML5 version.
You can play The Empire of Dreams in the browser here, or download the Empire of Dreams to play in your favorite Gameboy emulator (or console).
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Transmissions
Imagine you are walking one day, and find a boxy handheld computer in the bushes. It looks like something out of an 80’s sci-fi movie. You turn it on and you realize it is the lost device of a space traveller, with all their log transmissions (a diary of sorts).
‘Transmissions’ is not so much a game, but a serial story converted into a Gameboy game. I wrote and released it in instalments on Instagram and via RSS, every other day in 2020. There is no gameplay, other than you reading what the traveller was up to before the device was lost.
It was built using GB Studio, with an export as a Gameboy ROM and an HTML5 version.
Here’s one review of the game (at 4m:17s).
You can play Transmissions in the browser here, or download Transmissions to play in your favorite Gameboy emulator (or console).
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DMG Express
‘DMG Express’ is a homebrew Gameboy game simulating a slow-paced trip by train, through a long scrolling landscape, past train stops and vending machines.
It was built using GB Studio, with an export as a Gameboy ROM and an HTML5 version.
You can play DMG Express in the browser here, or download DMG Express to play in your favorite Gameboy emulator (or console).
I’m still actively updating the game, so be sure to check there every now and then to get the latest version. Version 3 has parallax scrolling on the landscape scenes, better enemy AI and various tweaks to make timing and dialogs better.
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Prompt generators
Various generators you can use to generate prompts, as inspiration for your creative projects. They basically combine random words from various categories of your choice, to give you a starting point for stories, illustrations or character designs.
Zuidrand
Tourism website for Zuidrand
Front-end development for a responsive tourism site showing the diversity and beauty of the region. Subtle UI animation to enhance the surfing experience.
Design by Simon Smalle (Entity One)
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10 years of Marlon
Marlon is a web agency with a story
Development of an interactive story to celebrate Marlon’s 10th birthday.
The preparation consisted of brainstorming concepts, followed by sketching storyboards to arrive at an interactive story.
I took care of the storyboarding and final design / animation using current web technologies, my colleague Gert provided the illustrations. The result made using a mix of SVG, js and CSS3 to create the animations, interaction and other visual effects in the browser.
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Digital Tutors
Part of the Plural Sight eco-system: video tutorials on web technology
Making a video series about building touch-friendly and responsive animations in the browser. Everything is built using HTML, CSS & SVG. Includes an introduction for making the project interactive using Javascript
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