Tankblade - First Game Jam!

#gamedev #javascript #currying #pixijs

"Ghouls! Frickin ghouls everywhere, just my luck!
Well, I best hop in this here spinning-top, blade-encrusted tank and start slashy smashin'."

PLAY THE GAME!
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Development

This game was built entirely by myself from scratch for LOWREZJAM 2019 in a week, including all music, physics, graphics* etc and is completely open source!

This is my very first Game Jam submission and was a brilliant challenge - to build a game with a true resolution of 64x64 - forcing my coding to improve and encouraging a fast-and-loose development style fitting with a jam so as to, you know, actually complete a side-project for once!

The renderer itself is Pixi.js (a library underneath Phaser), which I can't claim to have built ^_-

What I learnt

Game dev isn't my profession, but holy heck is a great way to improve skills! Utilising functional programming junk like currying that might not normally enter typical daily thought patterns. I highly recommend it, and especially in the context of a jam - working to that 'good enough' mentality all the while.