Gerard Gascรณn
Projects
Complete games that I've been part of.
๐ Just in Crime
A detective video game in which you play a detective dog and a wizard cat. With a twist; you are able to travel back in time and examine the crime scene a few seconds before it happened.
๐ค ABC
A small game where you have to move a lot of characters at once by pressing and releasing that keyboard key.
๐ Mercorona
A post-jam game from the Coronavirus Game Jam about trying to buy the maximum amount of food in an infinite runner game.
Interesting topics that I've investigated and written about.
๐ฝ๏ธ Yet Another Worldโs Worst Video Card
A simple research project based on Ben Eaterโs video series about building a video card on breadboards. In this project, I reduced the memory usage by only having 1-bit images.
๐พ Game Development in 16‑bits
A research project about developing a video game from scratch for the Sega Mega Drive in 2021 using SGDK.
Tools that I have developed mainly for myself, but also for anyone to use.
โ๏ธ Game of the Day
A website that shows a random small free game from a small developer each day.
๐ Platformer Engine
A basic SGDK project to learn how it works and also be a good basis to learn how to make a platformer game for the Mega Drive.
๐ ๏ธ Simple Tools
Made during the Game Jams for the Game Jams, Simple Tools is a bunch of simple and useful tools to use in your Unity projects, with the main goal of making them simple and as fast as possible to implement.
A list of all game jam projects that I've developed over the years.
๐น๏ธ Astromovida
An alt.ctrl game developed for the MรกlagaJam Weekend 18 about trying to control a spaceship in the middle of an accident.
๐น Roses
A game developed for the Sant Jordi Jam 2024 where you make a rose flourish by pressing Catalan letters.
๐ Emojiji
A game developed for the MรกlagaJam Weekend 17 where you have to complete some jokes using only emojis.
๐ด Figments of the Night
A game developed for the Indie Spain Jam 2023 where you wake up on a deserted island with no memory.
๐ฎ TRORB
A game developed for the List Jam 2 about a troll that must protect the orb that constantly changes the level and gameplay from an unstoppable ghost.
๐ Mr. Flurfels & Catarina y la tarta perdida
A game developed for the Indie Spain Jam 2022 about solving a mystery through time of a cake that went missing.
๐ด Domyno
A game developed for the MashUp Game Jam 2 about using dominoes to press a button.
๐ชข Twin Hook
A game developed for the GMTK Game Jam 2021 about two fishes that are joined together.
๐ฒ Ropasci Forest
A game developed for the Mix and Game Jam about getting out of a cursed forest by playing Rock, Paper and Scissors.
๐ฟ CD-ROOM
A game developed for the Disc Room Game Jam about a character that shoots CDs, but they are also its health.
โ๏ธ Mediepals
A game developed for the Spain Game Devs Jam II about a birthday party with a "medieval" tournament inside it.
๐ฆ Fur War
A game developed for the Coronavirus Game Jam II about a red panda with a spaceship that has to enable all the base platforms.
โ๏ธ Chess II: Counterattack
A game developed for the Brackeys Jam 2020.2 about being the chess king and survive an infinite number of troops.
๐ป Spirinaut
A game developed for the United Game Jam about alternating controls between two characters.
๐ Qu
A game for the Tricky Text Jam where everything inside is drawn using just text elements.
๐ช Train Of Thought
A game developed for the Retro 8-Bit Game Jam about surviving a war field to find your love.
โฑ๏ธ Fisec
A game developed for the JackSParrot Jam about playing silly mini-games that switch every five seconds.
๐ Pong-Pong
A game developed for the Ludum Dare 46 about keeping the car from being destroyed.
๐ฎ Isoulated
A game developed for the Coronavirus Game Jam about getting home before the monsters outside catch you.
๐น Wowie Game Jam Feb.2019
My first game jam ever at the Wowie Game Jam 2019 about moving with your recoil.
Talks that I've given at some point.
๐ช Unnecessary Challenges and Retro Pleasures: Homebrew in 16-bits
A talk showcasing how people can make games from hardware restrictions from my experience on working with the Sega Mega Drive.
๐บ๏ธ We Have Survived a Jam
A talk explaining how we organized the development of 'Figments of the Night' and how we survived during the entire Indie Spain Jam 2023.
๐ Failures in Projects and Dark Ages
A talk where I've shown a lot of my abandoned projects and explained how failing at completing projects can actually be a good thing.
๐ง The art of programming: the invisible magic behind video games
A talk explaining the little tricks that programmers make in order to improve the feel of the games.
๐งช Game Development in 16‑bits
A short-form presentation about how I developed a game for the Sega Mega Drive and what can be done with this research.
๐งโ๐ป Game Development in 16‑bits
A talk explaining the development of a complete video game for the Sega Mega Drive.
Small but interesting projects that I've done in my free time.
๐งโ๐ซ Controller Slide Presenter
An app to use Joy-Cons or Wiimotes for controlling presentations.
๐ Unity Opener
CLI application to quickly open Unity projects.
๐ RSS Checker
A basic tool for keeping track of an RSS list.
๐ผ๏ธ GLCD Image Converter
A basic tool for converting an image to a GLCD-compatible format.
๐จ Direct Color SGDK
Experimenting with Mega Drive's Direct Color technique using SGDK.