Alex Eckardt

alex eckardt

Developer and Pixel Artist

Projects

Main projects that I've put a ton of time and effort into. Useable by you, right now.

Soulflame (Alpha)
Action Adventure Platformer
A Game I've been passionately developing for 3 years, but currently on a hiatus do focus on my schooling.
The game boasts a captivating Metroidvania-style gameplay, allowing players to freely explore an expansive 2D environment. As players delve into the game, they will navigate through different areas teeming with enemies, while unraveling the mysteries of the main charachters backstory.
When Keira Eldrid arrives on the Old Continent, she finds herself in the midst of calamity: the return of ancient titans known as the Spirit Phoenixes. To prevent the destruction of the continent, she'll have to harness the power of new weapons and abilities by connecting with her inner self.
Pinball Pioneer
Top 10 Puzzle Game of GMTK 2023 Game Jam
Pinball Pioneer is a puzzle game, originally developed in 48 hours for the largest game jam in (at the time) Itch.io history.
The game was developed for the Game Maker's Tool Kit (GMTK) Game Jam in July 2023. The theme of the game jam was 'Roles Reversed' -- meaning that some aspect of the game was to be backwards in some way. After a week-long voting period, Pinball Pioneer finished Top 10 (7th) out of 7000 submissions.
Play as a little worker inside a pinball machine who's job is to design the board! Obviously, if the pinball-player wins the course then the pinball machine is too easy-- and the machine loses tokens! Use whatever you have available to you and make sure that the balls don't go into the holes!
GO Transit Viewer
GTA Transit Network Visualizer
GO Transit viewer is a visualizer of all Bus and Train routes handeld by GO Transit in Southern Ontario.
Using the same public data used by other companies like Google and Apple, I create a visual network using JS and HTML and displayed it geographically.
By clicking on different stations, you can see every line that goes there, as well as every other station directly accessable from there.

Experiments

Technical Side Projects that are cool to use and see, but aren't as user friendly.

  • Chess Opening Explorer

    Simple Puzzle Game that makes you choose the best move from a variety of chess openings.

    (2023)

  • Pixel Art Tile-Set Extrapolator

    Python Command Line Tool to extrapolate a tile-set from Source Images

    (2023)

  • iOS Speedrun Timer

    iOS App, writen in XCode, to act as a timer to store and compare speedruns time to one another

    (2022)

  • Rougelike Dungeon C# Game

    An simple, randomly generated bullet hell video game, created using C# using the MonoGame Game Framework.

    (2023)

    • See the source code for this website!

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