Video games
Various video games, including two that were ranked #1 in the respective game jams they were created for.
Hole in 180!
A combination of golf and darts.
- Free roaming movement with a golf ball that you hit.
- Dartboard scoring, with obstacles to increase difficulty.
- Using text-to-speech for the score announcer.
Made for the GMTK Game Jam 2026 (July 2026).
Witch Mode
Fast-paced arcade game with a minimalistic mouse movement control scheme.
- A start screen that explains and shows the movement controls before you start.
- Custom raycast-based continuous collision detection with areas.
- A mix of dynamically placed rings and authored ring formations.
Made for the Uplifting Game Jam (November 2025).
Duck Coupling
Action game with a rigid body player controller and 3D physics locked to the water plane.
- Water shader modified to use world coordinates on a plane attached to the player.
- Obstacle avoidance for mother ducks.
- Buoyancy for floating barrels and boxes.
- Creating and destroying pin joints to attach and detach baby ducks.
Made for the Chonky Duck Jam (May 2025).
Basketball Breakout 3D
Action game with a smooth first-person character controller and 3D physics.
- PD controller to keep the ball in hand and to recall it after a bounce.
- Shape-casting for the resting position of the ball when close to a wall.
- When hitting multiple bricks, the impact sound plays just once.
- Online leaderboard with high scores.
Made for GDKO 2025 Round 1 (January 2025).
(Also featured at the start of the GDKO 2025 Round 1 Results and Round 2 Reveal video.)
WordZone.io
Massively multiplayer online board game, a real-time variant of Scrabble™.
- Server authoritative moves.
- Desktop (mouse) and mobile (touch) control schemes.
- Position interpolation on the client.
Frozen Leftovers 🏆
Adventure game with a custom rule-based dialogue system and puzzles.
- Dialogue conditions and effects create a responsive environment.
- Outline shader activates when hovering interactables.
- Saving and loading and a pause menu for convenience.
- Puzzle with color mixing, visualized by a shader, and separately on the CPU the outcomes of all combinations are hardcoded for gameplay effects.
Made with two teammates: @WickedWhite (art) and @trashtier_games (music, additional programming).
Winner of the Do You WANNA Jam?! (August 2023) which had 80 submissions.
Frogalita
Action game with 2D rigid body physics and hand-drawn original art.
- Frog AI for jumping on moving lily pads.
- Optimized lily pad simulation using the 2D physics server.
- Particle effects when frogs swim and lily pads move.
Made for the Godot Fire Charity Jam 1 (October 2021).
Twisted Pumping VR
Virtual reality game taking place on a surface with unusual geometry.
- On-rails movement on the surface of a Möbius band.
- Haptic feedback when you use the handcar pump and the shield.
- Recentering adjusts the height of the pump to standing height.
Made for the Godot XR Game Jam (February 2025).
Elastic Crawler 🏆
Arcade game with an elastic character that can move only by stretching.
- Shader to draw the character using Bézier curves.
- Moving individual hands and feet stretches the body.
- The amount of stretching is limited by the positions of the other extremities.
Winner of Trijam #303: The 3 hour game jam (January 2025) which had 17 submissions.
Out of Prison
Blind-accessible text adventure.
- Dynamic game world affected by player actions.
- Text-to-speech for menus and game navigation.
- Voice selection and settings for voice volume, pitch, and rate.
Made for the Games for Blind Gamers Jam #4 (February 2025).
Poor Psychologist
Bootleg digital version of the card game Horrible Therapist.
- Local multiplayer using a shared random seed.
- Secret sharing using dice and pen and paper.
Made as a Christmas gift (December 2024) when the original game was out of stock.
More video games and prototypes that I created can be found at rburing.itch.io.
