Junk Bytes

Since the start of this academic year I've been enrolled in a Computer Science postgraduate program. I have found a couple of my semester projects to be noteworthy, so I thought I should post about them.

It's been so long since the last game update that I feel nervous writing this. After a long time of development and rewriting, a new update is finally available. Stick Veterans 2.0 is now published on Poki, a popular online games website.

A few years back I made a game, Barbara vs Zombies, for my then-girlfriend Barbara. She used to like an old light-gun game, House of the Dead , so I depicted her dodging and shooting zombies in this one. Included a backstory with silly romanticism, cats, and inside jokes. It's been nearly a year since we broke up, and this game has been sitting forgotten in my hard disk. I eventually decided it shouldn't go to waste. It is, after all, a game meant to remind us of happy times. Download and play the game on Gamejolt  or itch.io . I had made an Android version too, maybe I'll get around to publishing it someday. Hang in there, 2020 was a tough year, but you've made it this far already, so congrats. 💖 -Kostas

Ludum Dare 46 gamejam has just finished (and seems to have been hugely popular ). The theme was "Keep It Alive". I took part with my cousin Alkis Tagaras (who made the 3D graphics) and my friend Giorgos Giannisis, who made the music. The result is Super Immunizer , a mini-game where you fight microbes as an immune system cell.

Two months ago was the time at which the Ludum Dare 44 gamejam took place. It's been 2 years since I took part in a gamejam ( Global Game Jam in 2017 ), and 3 years since I took part in my first Ludum Dare ( LD35 in 2016 ), so it was about time I re-lived the experience.

SO I made a console game. A text adventure, specifically. Written in pure C. It's all here:  https://github.com/kostasvs/MagAdventure