Switchblade is a top down “one stick shooter” about taking down hordes of alien creatures in “petri dish” style environments. It features very funky music and stylish combat, as well as a wide variety of challenges, unlocks and additional content.

I developed Switchblade using the LOVE2D framework and LUA fresh out of university. It is a game that has been living in my head for the last few years, and which originally started out as a GameMaker Studio 2 project back in 2017-2018. This project has helped me to learn a great deal about large scale projects, and best practices and do’s/don’t do’s.

ork on Switchblade has grown larger than I expected it to over time, but it is still a project I immensely enjoy working on, and hope to have it released some time in the first half of 2025. There are a number of aspects of the project I am proud of, like the layout/structure of the game’s state tree (switching between menus etc), as well as various systems like the dynamic arena shapes that can change and shift over time.