GameSmart Games 2016-2017

June 25, 2018

I can’t believe I never blogged about leaving my teaching job to work full-time as a game developer!

Back in September 2016 I left my full-time teaching gig to work for GameSmart.com, a company in Minneapolis that makes web games, as a Game Developer. Mid 2017 I was promoted to Senior Game Developer and was promoted to the Development Manager January 1, 2018.

I made quite a few games during 2016 and 2017 for GameSmart! I also learned 3 new game engines in the process. Here’s some thumbnails.

: 12/2/2016 GameMaker/GML

: 10/27/2016 v1: Superpowers/TypeScript 2/16/2017 v2: GameMaker/GM

: 3/15/2017 Construct 2

: 5/22/2017 Phaser/JavaScript

: 6/27/2017 Phaser/JavaScript

: 10/16/2017 Phaser/JavaScript

: 11/10/2017 Phaser/JavaScript

As a “New Years” thing I tweeted about the fact that I made a bunch of games in 2017. The tweet went crazy viral, which was overwhelming and weird.

I shipped 7 video games (in which I was the sole programmer) on 4 different game engines in 2017.

I’m a 34 yo mom. Ladies, don’t let anyone tell you women can’t make games, because you can!

— Dr. Ashley Godbold 💜 (@ashleygodbold) January 2, 2018

BTW, if you’re looking at this post and thinking, “I only count 6 games on 3 game engines”, hold your horses! I have more blog posts coming 🙂

I’ve never used the “read more” tag, so hopefully it works. Read more to view a list of the games, along with publication dates, engine/language, and videos. And playable links!