Maddy Thorson
Madeline Stephanie Thorson
makes games ~ Celeste, TowerFall, etc
🏳️⚧️ gender criminal
maddymakesgames.com
- we make video game
- btw if you have no idea what the original Jumper (a game I made back in 2004) is, @sylviefluff.bsky.social wrote this wonderful article about it that I think introduces it better than I could sylvie.website/jumper/
- had to bring it back
- A lot more people remember Jumper than I thought!
- overworld work for Jumper. I rigged it up so I can hold Alt in the editor to see the "spiciness" (difficulty) rating of each level, to help me arrange them on the map
- it feels like ill need somewhere between 200 and 300 levels for this overworld to work the way I want it to
- luckily, making levels is kind of my whole thing
- a very important addition to the moveset: the scooch
- cant wait for speedrunner to use this to transcend space and time somehow
- anyways, make video game
- for Jumper its been really fun to revisit ideas/mechanics from Jumper 1/2/3 & put a new twist on them. Every level in this game has the blue and red gems from J2 with the same red gem rules (red gem only spawns after getting blue gem & beating level), plus a gold gem for time attack
- i love the challenge of designing little rooms that look like 1 discrete challenge but are actually 4 overlapping ones
- I minored in psychology in uni (and actually ended up with as many psych credits as comp sci ones), and most of the time psych felt more relevant to my game dev work I was doing on the side
- the extent to which "every accusation is an admission" turned out to be true is absurd
