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A while ago, I decided to brush up on gamedev. The challenge I set was to make one small game each day, for at least a few weeks.
The games all
I'm making this list mostly for my own documentation, because I had forgotten that I did this. Most of the games are very basic, and some probably shouldn't be called games, but are at least interactive. Some ideas were interesting enough for multiple days. In many cases, Stable Diffusion was used to generate sprites.
These are the 23 games I produced during the summer of 2023 (some from the passenger seat of a car).
Most of them can be played on a phone, but some require a keyboard.
https://ostwilkens.github.io/230716/
A basic roguelite inspired by Vampire Survivors.
🎮 WASD / Arrow keys
https://ostwilkens.github.io/230717/
A sidescrolling looter shooter.
Playing with the idea of generative loot.
Item names and stats were generated by an LLM. For item sprites, Stable Diffusion was prompted with the item names and a depth map.
🎮 WASD + Space
https://ostwilkens.github.io/230718/
A simple reaction time test.
🎮 Touch or click
https://ostwilkens.github.io/230719/
A test of calling an external web API to display data in Bevy. Images are fetched from https://cataas.com/.
🎮 Keyboard. Type text and press enter.
https://ostwilkens.github.io/230720/
Whack-a-mole, but with otters. Sprites generated using Stable Diffusion.
🎮 Click or touch
https://ostwilkens.github.io/230721/
A test of a first-person view and billboard sprites. Codename: Immortal Demons. Because you can't shoot, and thus can't kill the demons.
🎮 WASD + Mouse
https://ostwilkens.github.io/230722/
An iteration of the game from July 16, testing Bevy's (at the time) new bloom feature.
🎮 WASD
https://ostwilkens.github.io/230723/
An example of keyboard and touch input for third-person racing. Use arrow keys, or use the screen as a virtual joystick.
🎮 WASD/Arrow keys or touch/click
https://ostwilkens.github.io/230724/
A basic memory game with a twist. Fancy 3D graphics made with Blender, Figma, and Midjourney.
🎮 Click or tap
https://ostwilkens.github.io/230725/
Wheel-physics-based platformer idea. I was impressed by the map generated by Stable Diffusion, which was prompted with a hand-drawn depth map and a text description.
🎮 WASD/Arrow keys
I skipped a day due to travel.
https://ostwilkens.github.io/230727/
A basic loot generator.
🎮 Click button
https://ostwilkens.github.io/230728/
Top-down, vertical-scrolling racing test. I wrote a cool flame shader in GLSL for when you're going fast.
🎮 WASD or virtual joystick (touch)
https://ostwilkens.github.io/230729/
An iteration of the previous day, with CPU vehicles and collision.
https://ostwilkens.github.io/230730/
Another iteration of the car game. The new feature is dynamic music. Pitch and clarity change based on speed. This is achieved with real-time pitch shifting and fading between two music tracks with different frequency filters.
https://ostwilkens.github.io/230801/
Pinball, but with really bad physics, and really bad AI graphics.
🎮 Click/tap
https://ostwilkens.github.io/230802/
This is an absolute masterpiece. You are an otter, and you need to grab the fish. For reasons unknown, you are singing, and the beat is somewhat melancholic.
🎮 Virtual joystick (mouse or touch)
https://ostwilkens.github.io/230803/
An endless audiosurf-like anti-gravity racer. Avoid the TNT (duh).
🎮 WASD or virtual joystick
https://ostwilkens.github.io/230804/
An iteration of July 21. New name: "Mortal Demons". The demons can now die, and they shout at you, so you know where they are.
🎮 WASD + Mouse
https://ostwilkens.github.io/230805/
An uninspired endless jump runner.
🎮 Space/Click/Touch
https://ostwilkens.github.io/230806/
A test of parametric mesh generation. The shape of the rifle can be adjusted on-the-fly.
🎮 Mouse
https://ostwilkens.github.io/230807/
An evolution of the previous day's work. The guns look cooler and are more interesting.
🎮 Mouse/Touch
https://ostwilkens.github.io/230808/
The parametric guns in a first-person setting.
🎮 WASD+Mouse
https://ostwilkens.github.io/230809/
Another iteration of the previous day, with footstep sounds and sprinting.
🎮 WASD+Mouse, Shift to sprint
That's about it for the challenge. The following are some bonus mentions of longer-running projects.
https://ostwilkens.github.io/my-roguelite/
A basic roguelite with voxel enemies. Damaged enemies drop their voxels, which are picked up for XP.
🎮 WASD+Mouse
https://ostwilkens.github.io/my_fps/
An iteration of the fps gun-generation project. Has multiplayer support, but the server is offline. You can shoot, sprint and strafe jump.
🎮 WASD+Mouse
https://ostwilkens.github.io/joggande_djur/
Without a doubt my most graphically polished game. A hot-seat same-keyboard endless runner, last man standing.
Meshes were generated with DreamGaussian and animated with Mixamo. Announcer voice generated with ElevenLabs. Music by my good friend Viktor Andersson.
🎮 Keyboard hot-seat, one key per player. Hold key to ready, press key to jump.
When time allows, I work with Viktor Andersson on Muckler. It's a roguelike inspired by games like Diablo and Path of Achra. If it sounds like something you'd like to try out, follow the discord link on the website.
Written 2025-06-22