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								alt="My ThreeJS Halloween 2024 entry; a game about a witch brewing potions and selling them to spooky clientele." />
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					<h3><a href="./spookonomics" target="_blank">Spookonomics</a></h3>
					<p>My ThreeJS Halloween 2024 entry; a game about a witch brewing potions and selling them to spooky clientele.</p>
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					<h3><a href="./threejs/portal" target="_blank">Portal with Baked Lighting</a></h3>
					<p>The capstone project of the ThreeJS Journey course</p>
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					<h3>Night and Day</h3>
					<p>A breakout battle between two colors, as defined by random contrast bot RSS feed</p>
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					<a href="./rogueengine/vaporwave" target="_blank">
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							alt="A 3d rendered scene of a wireframe valley between mountains with a yellow to magenta sunset in the distance." />
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					<h3><a href="./rogueengine/vaporwave" target="_blank">Vaporwave</a></h3>
					<p>View of an animated vaporwave scene.</p>
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					<h3><a href="./rogueengine/shipshot" target="_blank">ShipShot</a></h3>
					<p>A KenneyJam attempt to make a pirate sailing game using RogueEngine.</p>
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					<a href="./rogueengine/spacestation" target="_blank">
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							alt="a 3d rendered scene of a view out the window of a science fiction space station, looking at the Earth." />
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					<h3><a href="./rogueengine/spacestation" target="_blank">Space Station</a></h3>
					<p>View of a rotating Earth from a space station, complete with calming engine noises.</p>
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					<h3><a href="./rogueengine/simcity" target="_blank">Wrecking Ball</a></h3>
					<p>A RogueEngine demo using Rapier physics where you roll a ball around and knock over buildings.
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					<a href="./threejs/honeycomb" target="_blank"><img src="./images/honeycomb.png"
							alt="a rendered scene of beehives and flowers, with yellow and red bee-balls flying between them" /></a>
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					<h3><a href="./threejs/honeycomb" target="_blank">ThreeJS bee-themed Conquest/RTS</a>
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					<p>A rough prototype to experiment with RTS-style controls in a 3D environment</p>
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					<h3><a href="https://eyeofmidas.github.io/2020js13k/">P4ck3t</a></h3>
					<p>A js13k game entry with it's primary mechanic based on a "pipes" style game.</p>
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					<a href="./ballsort" target="_blank"><img src="./ballsort/ballsort_card.png"
							alt="A simple canvas implementation of one of those sorting games." /></a>
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					<h3><a href="./ballsort" target="_blank">Ballsort</a>
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					<p>A simple canvas implementation of one of those sorting games.</p>
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					<h3><a href="http://ganache.eyeofmidas.net/" target="_blank">Multiplayer Websocket RPG</a></h3>
					<p>A tile-based game that uses websockets to enable multiplayer</p>
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					<h3><a href="https://github.com/EyeOfMidas/impact-midas" target="_blank">ImpactJS Game Suite</a>
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					<p>A few brain-training games made in ImpactJS</p>
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					<h3><a href="https://eyeofmidas.github.io/canvas-asteroids/asteroids.html" target="_blank">Canvas
							Asteroids</a></h3>
					<p>A quick tutorial HTML5 Canvas game recreating Asteroids</p>
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					<a href="https://github.com/EyeOfMidas/text-adventure" target="_blank"><img
							src="./images/textadventure.png"
							alt="a black console with descriptive white text, representing a text-based game in the browser" /></a>
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					<h3><a href="https://github.com/EyeOfMidas/text-adventure" target="_blank">Text Adventure</a></h3>
					<p>A pure-javascript implementation of a text-based game.</p>
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					<h3><a href="https://github.com/EyeOfMidas/eightfootjs" target="_blank">Canvas Game Engine</a></h3>
					<p>An HTML5 Canvas game framework/library to build games quickly (assets, scaling, animation, sound)</p>
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					<h3><a href="./canvas/gravitywell/" target="_blank">Gravity Well clone</a></h3>
					<p>An HTML5 canvas remake of a game in the 90s</p>
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					<p>Fast rendering HTML canvas box particles</p>
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					<h3><a href="https://github.com/EyeOfMidas/retro-retrospective" target="_blank">Retro Retrospective</a></h3>
					<p>A pure-native retrospective tool for development teams, done in a 70s style</p>
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							alt="a wooden board with the name of a randomly generated tavern on it: Triangular Bear Pub. A Generate button is displayed below." /></a>
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					<h3><a href="https://github.com/EyeOfMidas/tavern-name-generator" target="_blank">Tavern Name
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					<p>A simple generator for making creative D&D themed taverns</p>
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					<h3><a href="./vgs" target="_blank">Tribes VGS Audio Chat</a></h3>
					<p>HTML5 audio async loading controlled in the style of Tribes VGS</p>
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					<a href="http://eyeofmidas.net/mudmapper/" target="_blank"><img src="./images/mudmapper.png"
							alt="A gray field with a set of squiggle-connected white boxes. Each box has the name of a room: temple, street, guild. A drop-down menu shows the ability to add new rooms" /></a>
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					<h3><a href="http://eyeofmidas.net/mudmapper/" target="_blank">Mud Mapper</a></h3>
					<p>Browser-based editor for building out maps for MUDs</p>
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					<p>A simple math demo to show orbits and movement along them.</p>
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					<p>A quick mathy prototype that shows how orbit physics should be calculated</p>
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					<h3><a href="processing/?p=creepyfish&w=800&h=600">Creepyfish</a></h3>
					<p>A set of simple fish that don't move quite right. Still tweaking the numbers...</p>
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					<a href="processing/?p=curvetween2&w=800&h=600"><img src="./images/curvetween.png" alt="a black image with a white ball moving along a curve. The origin, tangent and end points are connected using green lines, and the linear interpolation line is drawn in red." /></a>
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					<h3><a href="processing/?p=curvetween2&w=800&h=600">Curving Tween</a></h3>
					<p>Tweening a ball on an arcing line. Press "D" for debugging lines.</p>
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					<a href="processing/?p=herd_immunity&w=800&h=600"><img src="./images/herdimmunity.png" alt="a white image with various color circles on it. Most circles are blue, but green circles are spreading out from the center" /></a>
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					<h3><a href="processing/?p=herd_immunity&w=800&h=600">Herd Immunity</a></h3>
					<p>Read an <a href="http://imgur.com/a/8M7q8" target="_blank">article</a> and tried to replicate the visualizations</p>
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			<ul>
				<li>Email: me@justingilman.com</li>
				<li>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/eyeofmidas/">Profile</a></li>
				<li>Bluesky: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/eyeofmidas.bsky.social">EyeOfMidas</a></li>
				<li>Mastodon: <a rel="me" href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eyeofmidas">EyeOfMidas</a></li>
				<li>Github: <a href="https://github.com/eyeofmidas/">EyeOfMidas</a></li>
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