My Disordered Projects
This is a listing of some of my more noteworthy projects that can be found on the web.
Project N5
I'm currently working on a game developed using Godot, entitled Project N5! It's aiming to be an action-adventure 3D platformer heavily inspired by games such as Ratchet & Clank.
I maintain a development log on this website, feel free to check it out if you're curious!
Swords & Stuff
Swords & Stuff (working title) was an RPG inspired by Dragon Quest IX. Traverse the world with a party of up to 4 characters, each with their individual equiment, skills, and vocations, and fight monsters to gain experience!
This game was my first shot at 2D Unity development, which had proven quite fun, but also a little cumbersome at times. Unfortunately, I will not continue the project in its current form, since even though I don't expect to earn any money from my games, let alone publish them on a commercial platform, Unity's TOS changes in mid-2023 made me reconsider my decision to use the platform and I hence abandoned the project. I used this opportunity to learn to use Godot, which I will use for my future projects.
A working, but very early-in-development version of the game is still up on this website. It features a testing overworld in which you can move the cast of four characters: Player1, fraxiom64, proudrat, and Grampa Simpson. The enemies, trolldads, chase you and take you into a battle scene that has a functioning queue, but no damage and health mechanics. You can flee battles. Don't open the inventory – you cannot escape it.
Totally Accurate Dating Simulator
Totally Accurate Dating Simulator is, as the name suggests, a series of particularly realistic dating simulator experiences. Dive into a world of romance as you meet your matches, intriguing and disappointing. Who will you meet? Will it be someone your type? That's subjective, and the computer will not even slightly attempt to match you with someone suitable. Prepare yourself for matches that are rarely described with "intriguing" and much more frequently with "funny." Discover which of the 28 endings will determine your fate, and lower your expectations. Significantly.
WeserPlaner
WeserPlaner is an app I developed to more easily view relevant information during my studies at the University of Bremen. It can download the user's timetable from the university's learning platform Stud.IP, and it can download the menus for all canteens managed by the Studierendenwerk Bremen, allowing the user to filter for dietary preferences as well as hiding items containing substances they are allergic against.
In developing this app, I took heavy inspiration from an earlier project of mine, AvH-Vertretungsplan, which was an app I developed for a school I used to attend, in order to view the substitution plan as well as the canteen offers more easily. Quite similar!
Text Basic
In the pursuit of finding a simple app on the Play Store that would allow me to put any kind of text on my home screen, I failed, and all I could find were ad-ridden monstrosities, overfilled with features. To fulfil my own requirements, I developed Text Basic, which does exactly one thing: put a text on your home screen. Upon user request, the app has grown minimally since, now allowing for text customisation (text font, text size, background style, colours) and a rotation of texts to display.
Dreamworld
Dreamworld is my first album. I always wanted to write a cohesive piece of media, and Dreamworld was my first stab at this task. Originally, I had planned to write an album in the month of July 2020, but that fell flat entirely, instead starting out with the production of Monophobia – a track name inspired by deadmau5' track of the same title – and working on the album until September of the year thereafter.
I had started the track Dreamworld back in 2019, only adapting it to the project as I thought it would fit thematically. Coincidentally, Flawed Romance shares the same chord progression, which genuinely only happened because I accidentally wrote the same progression twice.
The cover for Dreamworld is an edited picture of the Wallanlagen in Bremen, featuring a tree that fell and broke a year later. As such, this scene does not exist in quite the same way it did back then anymore.
I own a vinyl record of this album, produced as a one-off by beevinyl.
A New Beginning
A New Beginning is an EP I wrote back in 2018 in an effort to change up my production style. Originally, this EP was released as A New Beginning (3-Track), featuring A New Beginning as Nowy Początek and Farewell in two different versions, one being an instrumental titled Trzymajcie Się, and the other one being a bootleg of Kelly Clarkson's Behind These Hazel Eyes called Behind These Hazel Eyes (D4rkn355 'Farewell' Bootleg)! For copyright reasons, the bootleg never made it onto Spotify.
The first track, A New Beginning, was originally meant as a practice track rather than an actual release, but I ended up liking it so much that it became the first track on this EP! Hope was initially not a part of the EP, but for the Spotify release, I decided to include it, since it thematically fit.
Strangely, I remember that with Hope I tried to write a shorter track, but it ended up being the longest track on the project.
Qwark – Grade Log
Qwark was an app I used to track relevant information for my time at gymnasium. Initially, it was only meant to track my grades in exams and whatnot, but its capabilities grew to calculate my report card grades and my final grade once I graduated. It was also able to keep simple notes which could be checked off to mark them as done, and it also had a built-in counter I used during lessons to track how often I raised my hand and how often I verbally contributed to classes! A discipline I severely struggled in.
The app was named after Captain Qwark, the clumsy hero figure from the Ratchet & Clank series who never really gets his affairs in order. I suppose this referenced me personally more so than the app, since I was the one who needed help with tracking relevant information – a task for which the app proved very helpful!
The app reached EOL when I graduated from gymnasium, since I had no use for it anymore, and no one else ever used it either.
AvH-Vertretungsplan
AvH-Vertretungsplan was an app I developed back in 2019 to view the substitution plan of my school more easily, since I disliked the disorganised design of the school's website. The substitution app allowed me to be more quickly informed about my courses, as it notified me about any cancellations and changes in my schedule. It also allowed me to view the canteen offers, even though I'd never eaten at the school's canteen.
The app was initially developed in Java and later converted into Kotlin as part of my Kotlin learning effort. The backend of the app, since the school website required a login to view the substitution plan, ran on a Raspberry Pi 3B using a Python script that scraped the website using Selenium and sent out notifications via Firebase. The Raspberry Pi crashed frequently and the script was not perfect, requiring me to frequently remote into the Pi using VNC, often while I was at school, to edit the script!
Since the app was written for native Android but a few of my classmates had iPhones, I had an iOS version in the works, which even got to a finished state at one point, but since I lacked funding to pay the $99-a-year fee Apple charges developers, it was never published.
This app was genuinely one of my most fun projects, not only serving me as a handy tool, but also being a great playground for my programming practice, since it taught me to build UIs, use databases, and more. The app had been downloaded by 250 other students at my school, which I was – and still am – very proud of.