NITRICSWIGHT

MAKING COOL GAMES SINCE 2011

Hi! I'm Matthew, and I make games under the Pseudonym Nitricswight! I've been making games of all sorts ever since I first picked up Scratch at age 7. Since then, I've tried my hand at several game engines and become adept at over five programming languages. And I've also prototyped a ton of impressive and fun games!

SandMan

SandMan is a falling sand game written entirely in C as a practise project. The main challenge here was optimisation, and I was able to compress all the data I needed for each particle in a single integer, which means BLAZINGLY FAST!!!!

Valiant Voodoo
(4th place in Jame Gam #40)

Valiant Voodoo is a game where you play as a knight, tasked with defeating an onslaught of undead enemies by re-stitching your magic voodoo doll mid-fight to match the bodies of your foes. I designed and made this game in 5 days, doing all the art and programming myself. This was also my first time doing all my own sound effects, using objects in my dorm room.

DownScaler
(490th place in GMTK Game Jam 2024)

DownScaler was my submission to the GMTK Game Jam for 2024, created in four days. The game revolves around recreating an image at a lower resolution, to fit with the theme of 'built to scale'. I did all the programming, art (besides the images used in the gameplay), and design.

Paralleliom

Paralleliom is a game I made in two days to warm up for GMTK 2023. It's an arcade-style shooter where you can change between two parallel dimensions to avoid taking damage. Everything except the music and SFX was made by me.

Starlight Speedway
(25th place in VimJam #4)

In a collaboration with 'Hey! I'mEvil', Starlight Speedway was made in a week, with me doing all the programming and 3D art. It's an arcade racing game where you can sacrifice checkpoints to gain extra speed. The biggest challenge was the AI racers, as getting them to stay on the track proved difficult!

Tricky Tides
(2nd place in Godot Wild Jam #48)

Made in 9 days, Tricky Tides is a puzzle game where you move and rotate the moon to control the tides and guide a little boat to the goal. There is even a level editor included with the jam version!