Hi everyone, I'm Pandamander, a former game designer at EA and indie game developer. I'm looking forward to getting to know everyone in the itch.io community!
Some background: My 2022 New Years Resolution is to make a game every month, and we just released our February game. In the past I worked on an indie game for way too long (multiple years) without shipping anything before eventually cancelling it. So to remedy this and level up my end-to-end game dev skills, I'm focusing on shipping quickly as a way to learn and improve. This is the exact advice that I give to students when they ask me about how to get into the games industry, so I am taking some of my own medicine!
In January 2022 I shipped a unofficial tribute game to one of my favorite music artists. For February 2022 I teamed up with Coopal00ps to make "O Kraken My Kraken", a little platformer on the high seas. The name is a play on the poem by Walt Whitman, O Captain My Captain!
From the description:
The year was 1690. Captain Jules was on his final voyage to close out a lucrative 40-year career as a pirate on the high seas. He longed to return home to spend his final years at peace with his daughter and grandchild. "Mates, this be the last one for me," he said with a grin as he sipped his rum.
Little did he know how right he would be...Will Captain Jules be able to recover all of his treasure before the ship goes down?
It's free for PC and Mac and is probably about a 5-10 minute short game. We are pretty proud of it, though we have a lot to improve. The tentacles and water came out pretty well. Hope you all like it!
For March 2022 we are working on a WaveRace 64 inspired 2D game. Stay tuned!