Information about some of my older games & joint projects
This page was last updated on 27th January, 2026
Please note that I have removed the info for games that I finished and released on Itch since this page was originally written in 2018. You can find complete versions of Envahi, Rockman, Bah, Humbug and Boulderdash on my Itch.io page
Uridium
Aaron and I wrote our own conversion of Uridium in Gamemaker in 2023. The game was fully completed and played pretty much identical to Andrew Braybrooks original but we were concerned about releasing it because of ownership issues. We’d had the same concerns with Paradroid as well, so we played safe. Aaron later wrote a full-blown sequel to Uridium called Uridium X. You can find that here: UridiumX
Paradroid
Paradroid is a game Aaron and I worked on around the start of 2017. Most of the game was finished and it was mainly just droids AI, transfer game and a few other bits that needed finishing, along with some general tweaking. Real life, as always, prevented us working full time on the game, which was why it was worked on so intermittently. We held off finishing the game as we had concerns about ownership in the end.
There is a lot more information about the development of the #ParadroidRemake on Aaron’s blog.
iDef
iDef was Dexterity Designs first game which Aaron created over a couple of years as his first attempt programming for Ios devices. I came on board when the game was 95% complete and we formed our company to market and sell it. As far as development goes, I worked on a few aspects of design, all the writing, and selecting the right music for the game. Naturally I helped with the final bug testing and bringing in beta testers to ensure the game went out bug free. Apart from a very minor patch just after we uploaded the main game, it never needed a further update.
Unfortunately, after we stopped working on mobile platforms, our Apple Dexterity Design account expired, which meant that iDef was no longer available on the app store. Additionally, the game made extensive use of Cocos2D game libraries when coded, and this no longer exists in the format of that time, so it would be very impractical to build the project again, if we ever returned to mobile. So, if you have the game on your phone/iPad already then don’t delete it as you will never be able to get it back.
We didn’t have a huge success with this game despite some very good reviews, mostly because we got it up there long after the mobile market had saturated so not many people were ever aware of it. Before we decided to leave the mobile/tablet market for the indefinite future we did make the game free of charge, so hopefully a lot more people got the chance to play it before the download disappeared.
It’s not all doom and gloom, however. Aaron finished a new version of iDef some years back now, and that’s available for OSX and Windows via itchIO. You can get it here.
Gravity Force
Gravity force was created for a programming exersize by a friend who regularly does game jams, and also writes a mini-game every month to keep himself on his toes. These games don’t need to be huge games with lots of content but rather functional, and engaging, if limited games. It was suggested that I do a small game each month for a year to get my programming skills a bit better, and also gain some focus for bigger projects. Over my programming years I have too many unfinished games at various levels of completion so this approach would help my focus somewhat.
I made up a list of the 12 games I was going to do over the course of a year, which also included scaling down a few of the games I’d already started on to give them some closure so I could concentrate on other projects.
I only did the first months game from scratch in the end as I started working with Aaron shortly after. Infection was the second project on the list and I did close that off too, albeit a bit rushed, and was already 80% ready so it didn’t really count.
So here it is, and you can have either a Mac or Windows version. No explanation of the gameplay is needed as it’s a very simple shooter that you’ll soon pick up. I’ve not published the source code but I will do at a later date, as the game was written in Blitzmax a couple of years back, and I’ve long since moved on to other development systems.
Note: Link is currently unavailable. I hope to publish on itch.io shortly
Infection
Infection was developed as an almost complete game before Gravity Force, but I had stalled on it up to that point, so I scaled back additional ideas and features to get it to a reasonable state to give away. I can’t say that I’m over-happy with it as it is now, but it works, the game-play is basically there, although very shallow, and it’s an interesting idea. Not to mention that it’s actually quite good fun playing it as it’s one of the few games I’ve actually played where I enjoy trying to beat my high scores. I’ve played very few games where this actually interested me over the years, mostly because they may have other objectives and not be the total focus of the game. Here you are aiming to kill as many germs each screen as possible but you only get one shot, so you’re pretty helpless watching the game play out after you’ve taken it. Get less than 80% of the screen cleared and that’s the end.
Try it and see for yourself. I liked the idea so much that I actually have an almost complete IOS/OSX version written in Swift 2 that is technically much improved on this game, but just doesn’t feel as good, so I didn’t release it. Aaron and I have often talked about expanding on the basic idea as part of a bigger game but mostly that’s still at the design stage for a future project.
Note: Link is currently unavailable. I hope to publish on itch.io shortly
Most of my other completed games that I consider could be releasable currently have temporary assets in them or are written in languages I no longer use and would take a lot of effort to get playable builds. I do hope to expand upon this page at a later date as well as work further on the big list I’ve put into a spreadsheet of all the games I can ever remember working on and what happened to them. It’s amazing all the stuff you forget about over the years.