Ramblings of a Programmer

Meaningful Games

This list was inspired by a friends list of favorite games and I figured I’d at least get started on curating my own list. This list is not necessarily my favorite games, or even games that I particularly enjoy - but they all will have had some meaning towards my life as a game developer.

This list is still incomplete, it will grow and change over time.

  • Age of Empires II (PC)
  • Viper Racing (PC, 1998, Monster Games Inc)
  • Live for Speed (PC)
  • iRacing (PC)
  • Pacman
  • Slime Volleyball (Web Game)
  • Perfect Dark (N64)
  • 007 Golden Eye (N64)
  • Penny Racers (N64)
  • 1080 (N64)
  • NFL Blitz ?? (N64)
  • Need for Speed (PS)
  • Sledstorm (PS)
  • Madden ?? (GameBoy, PS2)
  • Cairn (PC)
  • Split Fiction (PC)
  • GeneRally (PC)
  • Elastomania (PC)
  • N / N+ (The Way of the Ninja)
  • Dino Crisis (PS1)
  • Rocket League (PC)
  • LANESPLIT (PC)
  • Twisted Metal

Making Games for Yourself

Over an hour ago I sat down to tell you my thoughts on advice thrown around in the world of game development. It took me literally an hour to type these two sentences, first I had to get music started, set the lighting and get distracted with an XKCD comic. That led me down a path of playing with a dark mode extension with Google Docs that.. Well who cares about all that non-sense.