William Guimont-Martin's personal website Zola 2022-08-01T00:00:00+00:00 https://willguimont.com/tags/gamedev/atom.xml 2022-08-01T00:00:00+00:00 2022-08-01T00:00:00+00:00 William Guimont-Martin https://willguimont.com/blog/dashy-dango/ <p>Dashy Dango a wave fighting game made with <a class="external" href="https://wasm4.org/" target="_blank">WASM-4</a> by <a class="external" href="https://github.com/samX500" target="_blank">@samX500</a> and <a class="external" href="https://github.com/willGuimont" target="_blank">@willGuimont</a>.</p> <p><a class="external" href="https://willguimont.github.io/dashy-dango/" target="_blank">Try the game here</a> or on <a class="external" href="https://willguimont.itch.io/dashy-dango" target="_blank">itch.io</a>!</p> <p><img src="https://willguimont.com/blog/dashy-dango/DashyDangolong.webp" alt="dash dango" /></p> <p>Source code is here: <a class="external" href="https://github.com/willGuimont/dashy-dango" target="_blank">willGuimont/dashy-dango</a></p> <p>We built our own ECS (entity-component-systems) from scratch in Rust.</p> <p>More screenshots:</p> <p><img src="https://willguimont.com/blog/dashy-dango/dashy_1.webp" alt="screenshot 1" /> <img src="https://willguimont.com/blog/dashy-dango/dashy_2.webp" alt="screenshot 2" /> <img src="https://willguimont.com/blog/dashy-dango/dashy_3.webp" alt="screenshot 3" /></p> 2022-01-17T00:00:00+00:00 2022-01-17T00:00:00+00:00 William Guimont-Martin https://willguimont.com/blog/rolly-dango/ <p>Rolly Dango, an isometric rolling puzzle made with <a class="external" href="https://wasm4.org/" target="_blank">WASM-4</a>. We made it for the <a class="external" href="https://itch.io/jam/wasm4" target="_blank">WASM-4 Game Jam</a>.</p> <p><a class="external" href="https://willguimont.github.io/rolly-dango/" target="_blank">Try the game here</a> or on <a class="external" href="https://willguimont.itch.io/rolly-dango" target="_blank">itch.io</a>!</p> <p><img src="https://willguimont.com/blog/rolly-dango/game.webp" alt="rolly dango" /></p> <p>Source code is here: <a class="external" href="https://github.com/willGuimont/rolly-dango" target="_blank">willGuimont/rolly-dango</a></p> <p>Here’s some key points of our project:</p> <ul> <li>We made our own ECS (entity-component-systems) from scratch</li> <li>To save cartridge space, we built our own Huffman coding algorithm</li> <li>To help ourselves make levels, we built our own level editor using <a class="external" href="https://p5js.org/" target="_blank">p5.js</a></li> <li>Made all of our sprites using <a class="external" href="https://www.aseprite.org/" target="_blank">Aseprite</a></li> </ul> <p>Our level editor: <img src="https://willguimont.com/blog/rolly-dango/editor.webp" alt="level editor" /></p>