Hi everyone my name is Josh.
I first started playing around with a programme called game maker in the early 00's (the icon on windows was a red ball, and I downloaded it from c-net. Anybody else remember it?).
I then spent a lot of my creative-time making music. But now I'm back with game making. I got stencyl in April last year, paid for the studio license basically straight away. It's been worth it so far, even as a kind of "expensive toy".
I had an idea whilst playing around with the software which I realised was actually pretty fun (basically, it's a grid-based top-down game with two characters on the screen at the same time, which the player controls both at the same time), and 6 months later I'm still working on it. It's been a learning process, obviously, which is why it's taken me so long for a very simple idea (I should also say that the controls and stuff are all pretty well polished and the mechanics are all pretty efficient now), and hopefully I'll be launching in September.
Next week I'm meeting a graphic designer friend of mine to get some images in there (I'm going for that monument valley kind of vibe).
It's touchscreen controlled but maybe i'll get an arrow-key version up here once I'm closer to launch date.
shout outs to CEOSOL who's played an early version of the game and gave me some really useful feedback (and, embarrassingly, showed me a VERY similar project he'd done in the past...) and to robinschaafsma for the virtual joystick extension. And to the stencyl creators for their hard work.
Here's a link to the last project i worked on as a musician. It won a prize at a short film festival yo.
https://vimeo.com/74700300