Jonathan Dearborn
I've been involved with a lot of great projects as a game developer.
I work in various game engines (Unreal, Unity, custom, proprietary) and languages (C++, C#, Java, Python, Javascript, etc.). I use what makes the most sense for the task.
Orion Drift
| Orion Drift brought the dream of 75+ players in a single lobby to VR. A spiritual successor to Echo VR, we created a playground on a space station where you could socialize and compete in various game modes. I worked across many of the gameplay elements, creating the held items system, most of the item behaviors, server browser, In-App Purchasing, and player reporting/camera system. I contributed to cosmetics, the tech tree, performance optimization, and traversal mechanics.
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The Walking Dead: March to War
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| The Walking Dead: March to War is Disruptor Beam's massively multiplayer strategy game based on the comic series. I fixed lots of bugs throughout the client and server as well as implementing much of the server-side analytics that help the developers understand their players.
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Star Trek Timelines
| Star Trek Timelines is an extremely popular story and character collection game from Disruptor Beam. You level up your crew, send them on away missions, discover new and rare crew members, and engage in ship-to-ship battles across the galaxy. I worked on feature development, then ported the app to Steam, hooking up the in-app purchases, achievements, and more.
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Pixel Proof
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| Pixel Proof helps you make amazing pixel art and game sprites. The interface is clean and customizable, leaving your workflow smooth and focused. Included are specialized tools that you can't find anywhere else and Twitter integration so you can easily share your work.
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Tangible Math
Tangible Math
is a virtual magnetic whiteboard where you can set up lessons and teach
math in a personal way. Before you are dozens of pieces to
interact with. Numbers snap together to form larger values,
mathlink cubes break apart into smaller sets, and familiar objects make
counting fun. Activity boards provide a focus to a lesson with
math sentences to complete, areas to group similar objects, charts to
fill in, and clocks with realistic hand movement. Draw in color
on any board to highlight and annotate the exercise. Your student
will thrive as you work together to explore our world through math.
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We
searched for an app to help demonstrate and practice math concepts with
our homeschool kids, but we couldn't find anything like we
wanted. What to do? Make it. Tangible Math is leagues
beyond what was out there previously and we really hope all kinds of
educators will make use of it.
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Gladiator (Openglad)
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The official version
of Forgotten Sages' classic action RPG, now for Android! Hire soldiers,
archers, elves, clerics, mages, orcs, skeletons, and more, then train
them into an unstoppable team as you face opposing armies and monsters.
Dozens of levels lie between you and a monstrous evil. Can you make it?
This game is part of the Openglad project, which is released under the
open-source GNU General Public License (GPL). You can find the project
on Github:
https://github.com/openglad/openglad
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I took over this
open source project as a work of affection for this old DOS game.
I played it as a kid and wanted to fix it up and let others enjoy it
too. I designed brand new enhancements, added lots of little
touches, balance fixes, and squashed
age-old bugs as I ported it to SDL 2.0 and Android.
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Board Game Apprentice
Are you
missing some parts of your favorite board game? Need to flip a coin,
draw a sketch, or deal out tokens? We’ve got you covered. Board Game
Apprentice features a full set of tools for your gaming needs. Roll
dice with saved history and a holding tray. Time your games with one of
4 different timer styles, even while using other tools. Give the
realistic spinner a whirl. Pick and choose which tools you need, then
customize and configure them to fit your game.
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SDL_gpu
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SDL_gpu
is an open-source rendering system for SDL 1.2 and SDL 2.0
that presents a powerful hardware-accelerated API for 2D applications
and games. The source code, written in C, is portable to a variety of
platforms which
have SDL and OpenGL support, including Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, iOS,
and Android.
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I wrote SDL_gpu from
the ground up and use features of each of the different versions of
OpenGL and OpenGL ES that are supported. This library plays a
prominent role in all of my games and apps.
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Don't Blow It!
Gather your
friends for a true cooperative experience in Don't Blow It! Work
together to solve puzzles and reach new heights of platforming, but
when the bomb is lit, don't be the one to blow it!
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I started this
game for Ludum Dare #20, "It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take
This!". What I came up with was really fun, so I kept working on
it and got my wife to make better art.
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Don't Blow It!
was featured in the Digital Game Showcase at the 2012 Boston Festival
of Indie Games and also appeared in a PBS Off Book special about indie
games. We have plans to take what we've done for this game and
branch it off into a bigger project that pursues the best parts of
playing DBI.
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Solarity
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Solarity is a 2D
solar system gravitational dynamics simulation. Mostly, I just
made it to have some fun with testing the stability of a Runge-Kutta 4
numerical integration scheme. However, it did help to test and
refine the capabilities of the graphics libraries I work on. I
used accepted values for each planet's mass, diameter, and orbital
velocity so that one can zoom and pan around to get a feel for the true
size of our solar system.
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Atomic Hero
Combine atoms
to form real molecules and stabilize the mysterious black holes
occuring around the world.
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This was a
game done to introduce Muzzy Lane's ClearLab Project educational
initiative. I turned the designer's ideas into a working game
using Muzzy Lane's Sandstone in-browser 3D platform with scripting done
in Locustscript (XML+Javascript).
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Fire, Fire, Where You Are
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"Fire, fire, where
you are, I'm going to fight you with a fire department" (name given by
my 4 year old daughter) is a game where you control a firefighter
burning away grass (fire fuel) before a wildfire comes.
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This game was made
for Ludum Dare 18. The competition theme was "Enemies as
weapons", the very theme I suggested! It ended up with being
voted as #32 overall (out of 172 entries), #4 in Innovation, and #9 in
Theme.
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arrow keys or 'wasd' to move, aim with the mouse and click to start a
fire near your firefighter. |
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Treasure Tub
Pilot your toy
boat in the search for gold. Be warned: The other ships are
willing to fight for it! Collect the most gold by the time the
last chest is found and you win!
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This is
another entry to the Ludum Dare 48-hour game competition. The
competition theme was "Islands". This is the original version
produced in 48 hours. The source code is included in the download.
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Controls:
Use 'w', 'a', 's', and 'd' to move. Use the mouse to aim and
shoot.
When you have a map, you can fish for treasure with a right-click.
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Frank the Dinosaur
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Play
as Frank in a quick, fun dino adventure with a twist.
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first submission to Ludum Dare (actually,
MiniLD). There are some interesting concepts in this small
game, like stealth and humor. The original game was made in much
less
than 48 hours. This version has some bug fixes and minor changes
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| Controls: Use the
arrow keys to move, spacebar to jump, left shift for action (once
you gain it), and up/down arrows to aim. |
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Destiny of the Sword
(prototype)
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Sword is a
turn-based tactical RPG similar to Vandal Hearts and Final Fantasy
Tactics. |
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was the lead programmer on this project, which involved a group of 5
developers. My goal in this project was to gain some experience
working
in a collaborative team and to help the team get to a working
prototype. Two
of the developers are also the designers, so I interpreted their
designs
into a
working game using assets created by the other developers (sprite
graphics
temporarily stolen from Battle for Wesnoth). |
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Knight of the Cave Dragon
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| Take the role of a
courageous knight who must save a village from an
evil dragon. This totally original plot line takes you through
dark caves
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This game was made
for Ludum Dare 15: "Caverns". I played a bit with shadow puzzles
in
this and I got a lot of positive feedback on the blocky pattern of the
light. A few minor features were added after the competition.
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Controls: Use the
arrow keys to move. Left shift is jump. 'z' is
attack. 'x' is for throwing torches.
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Slugs v Salt
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hotshot
squad of slugs against hordes of salty foes. Use
your water guns to melt the enemy lines. |
This is my Ludum
Dare 14
entry for the Advancing Wall of Doom theme.
The interpretation of the theme was pretty unique. There's not
much AI
involved, but it is fun watching your team release a torrent of
water. The difficulty was adjusted after the competition.
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| Controls: 'wasd',
'g' to
fire, 'h' to
jump for player 1. Arrow keys, 'm' to jump, 'n' to fire for
player 2. |
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GigaSun Jet
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| In GigaSun Jet, you
customize and control your own spaceship as you and
up to three other players race through a variety of star systems,
destroying enemies, earning credits, and upgrading your various
components. Choose from an unlimited variety
of each of the 12 component types to fill your ship with the best
equipment. Activate outrageous special abilities to gain the
upper
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every
line of this relatively large game.
There is still much that is unfinished, but someday... someday... |
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Breakdown
3D
Breakout clone written in OpenGL with Glut for my Computer Graphics
course.
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actual assignment was too simple (it only required drawing of boxes and
player input), so I went ahead and made a fairly
complete game out of it. The professor was pleasantly surprised,
to say the least. There are some useful additions like powerups,
score, and level, and there are fancy additions like the setup sequence
and the brick debris. |
| Controls: Use the
arrow
keys to reflect the ball and destroy the bricks
above. |
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NFont
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| A complete and very
simple
to use C++ bitmap font class with
text-block alignment, newline support,
font metrics, and even animation. NFont can also load/cache
SDL_ttf objects if you want to use a TrueType font. |
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implemented
the entire library and each revision,
starting from a bare font drawing routine. I use this in most of
my 2D
SDL aplications. |
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Sprig
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| SPriG is a graphics
primitive generator for SDL. It supplies a quick
and simple interface for the drawing of primitives (pixels, lines,
polygons), the rotation and zooming of surfaces, and many useful
surface functions. It also implements several alpha-blending
modes and
line thickness controls. |
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SGE
library, made lots of interface tweaks, removed several misfitting
features, and added other features to enhance the major goal of
providing graphics primitives and surface transforms. |
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