Hull Breach was made for the inaugural December 2020 LibreJam. It is a top down arcade game where an astronaut has to seal breaches in his ship using duct tape in zero gravity. First collecting the tape, the player than bounces from wall to wall to get to the leaks as they open up. (1.0.0)
Hedged was first made for the April 2021 LibreJam. It is a first-person 3D maze game with a horror theme. Set in a snowy hedge garden reminiscent of The Shining, the player attempts to find the exit while evading his suddenly murderous wife. (1.2.0)
Bring Them On was made for the August 2021 LibreJam. It is a top-down shooter game with a science fiction theme. Upon developing a teleportation device, the player is pursued by monsters from another plane of reality. (1.0.0)
Mosquito was made for the December 2021 LibreJam. It is an arcade game based on quick reflexes. The player controls a prehistoric giant mosquito, preserved pregnant in amber and recently revived. It must feed on a human in order to resurrect its species, while avoiding having it all end in one quick smack. (1.0.0)
Nightfall was made for Halloween 2022 and updated for Halloween 2023. It is a scrolling shooter where the player armed with a shotgun faces attacks from various monsters and has to dodge or shoot them, before facing a final battle with a horrifying vampire. Going on a kill streak transforms the player into a vicious beast. (1.5.1)
ASCIIlization was made for the June 2023 LibreJam. It is a terminal basedhotseat mutliplayerturn based strategy game. Currently only training units and collecting resources is finished, so players instead compete for the higher score by harvesting resources and upgrading units. Units are assigned various tools to be used on different items. (0.5.1)
Soul Capture is a utility that captures both the video and audio playback of OpenGL applications such as games; created in Gambas and working as a front-end for the glc capture program. ffmpeg is also required for encoding. (2.0.0)
Gambas Examples is a collection of code and some programs to help the aspiring Gambas programmer, specifically game developers.
Gambas Performance System is a free software system to create virtual agents and actors for games and animation projects; this can include semi-autonomous digital puppets or fully independent game entities controlled by artificial intelligence.
Gambas Tile System is a free software tiling system for two dimensional games that allows for the creation of scalable, adaptive and low over-head tile worlds. Fixed screen version used in Hull Breach.
Gambas Physics System is a free software light-weight physics system for basic simulations of collisions, motions and forces.
Gambas Platform Engine is a free software platform game engine written in Gambas. It was first used in Windys, and a new version with an expanded array of features is under current development.
Hamish Paul Wilson (PigaLore) is the group's "benevolent dictator for life" whose title, beyond jest, grants him the power to make the final decision if consensus can not be reached. Practically, however, his main role is as a game designer, being the creator of Alexei and most of the levels of Windys. In addition he is the main system administrator for the Piga Software development machines, and his interest in the GNU/Linux graphics stack has lead to projects like PigaVision and Soul Capture.
Graham Lawrence Wilson (PigaLore) is the group's technical director, and thus he is largely responsible for the engine technology and software systems used in Piga Software programs. He is the main developer behind the Gambas Genie engine and created or adapted the engines for Windys, Piga's Santa Drop Down and Donut Quest. He also serves as Piga Software's main web developer, having taken several courses from W3Cx. His interest in esoteric graphics programming has lead to the drafting of projects such as Piga Brain, Animator, the Projection Engine and its progenitors, and even a "zero dimensional" game.
Other Contributors
Malcolm Wilson Multimedia (PigaLore) is a free content studio principally ran by Malcolm Rex Peter Wilson, which has contributed regularly to Piga Software projects. He composed the soundtracks to the unreleased Billy Bear, as well as for Donut Quest and most recently Windys. He also composed the "Piga Software Theme" jingle back in 2004, and has since created sound effects for Alexei: Part IX and devised most of the graphics for Piga's Santa Drop Down, New Years Dodge 'Em and Childish Cannoneer, among numerous cases of multimedia manipulation and conversion. As Brogo's cartoonist, he also designed and drew the artwork for Donut Quest.
Christian Picon, of Extreme Tux Racer, contributed a formula to Gambas Genie.
Ryan C. Gordon and icculus.org for kindly supplying hosting after years of being in the darkness of "free" hosting. A pity our various wiki and forum hosts have not been merely as stable or obliging!
Steve "sholzy" Holzfaster, Tomasz "tommyline" Kolodziejczyk (our OpenGL mentor, much obliged!), Quincunxian, cogier, gbWilly, and everyone else at the Gambas Forum in all its various forms and the current Gambas ONE community for all their help and support.
All those who have visited the forum, given a suggestion or have given their support over the years.
Fancy yourself on this list? Get in touch and we shall see how you can help!
