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[Gameplay trailer for Pest Control. A little green alien rides on a hovering vehicle while collecting crops, running into little pink invading pests, and destroying pollutant metal structures. Another green alien with glasses and long white beard explains the premise. There are four locations presented: a green world, a trippy pink world, a snow world, and a lava world.]

Days move fast in your little solar system, and so do the pests! Can you collect enough crops before the invading pests take over your garden?

This fast paced garden defense game features:

  • 24 levels across 4 planets

  • custom levels to set your own challenge

  • a little jank for sure, thank you for ignoring

  • control rebinding

  • my blood sweat and tears

  • cute Kenney assets

  • a little guy that goes around

  • a day-night cycle like you wouldn't believe

  • absolutely no plot

It's a little game you go around hitting little guys. You get it.

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A little games goblin

I’m Sarah Nuse and I live to problem solve! I love learning new skills and testing my ingenuity. Making video games is awesome for consistently giving me new problems to solve and new skills to learn.

I have a Computer Science degree and 10 years experience working in tech (IT, Infra Eng, EDI). In early 2020 I decided to return to my first love, the reason so many of us went into Comp Sci to begin with, making video games! So I’ve been teaching myself game development in C#. I started in Unity and have been recently learning Godot.

Hire me to help make your game!

  • screenshot of the game Pest Control, a little green alien rides on a hovering vehicle in a verdant garden, little pink humanoids are invading

    Pest Control

    Collect as many crops as you can before the pests take over! A hyper casual fast paced garden defense game. Made in Unity.

    Steam and Itch.io

  • a black outline of Texas with two simplified bluebonnets over the Central Texas area

    Hill Country

    My first game, made at the start of the pandemic. A simple word puzzle game and a tiny love letter to the flora and fauna of Texas. Made in Unity.

    Itch.io

  • blue background with white boids" (chevrons) in flock formations, a set of option sliders is on the top left to control various things like alignment strength, cohesion strength, and view radius.

    Boids

    A little flocking toy that can be played in a browser. You can make lots simple jiggly wobbly visualizations. Made in Unity.

    Itch.io

A game about lasers, power sources, wires, and helping friendly androids. These videos show off the development of mechanics and look as the game is progressing.

Being made in Godot.

8/25/22 - barely even a prototype

11/16/22 - starting to develop the game pieces and mechanics

12/16/22 - really shaping up what the game space looks like

1/26/23 - finally there is a “win” state! it still needs a bit more complexity to know if there’s a game here

Gif: hundreds of tiny squares in changing colors and sizes move around an empty background. At first moving randomly. Over time the squares form a few clusters of colors. These clusters grow and shrink, dye out, and are replaced by a new cluster.

I’m also proud of this little neural network I made. Each square gets randomized synapses connecting simple inputs (age, location, neighbors) to simple actions (move, eat, reproduce). The first generations act at random, but a few manage to reproduce and eventually evolve the necessary behaviors to stick around. Look at these brainiacs go! Made in Godot. No link yet.

Gif: hundreds of tiny squares in changing colors and sizes move around an empty background. At first moving randomly. Over time the squares form a few clusters of colors. These clusters grow and shrink, dye out, and are replaced by a new cluster.