a yellow deer. they're sitting down, looking sassily at the viewer while seemingly talking.

although i started making little games and tools early on, they were mostly university projects, game jam entries with friends, or abandoned ideas.

the ones here were made more recently as i decided to focus more on personal projects. (return)

veadotube mini

a screenshot of the main screen of veadotube mini. it has a green background with a white thin grid, and a drawing of a deer coming out of a tube and screaming in the center. on the left side, there are two sliders, a microphone icon, a grid icon, an open file icon, and a save file icon. on the top, there are four face icons: open eye closed mouth, open eye open mouth, closed eye closed mouth, and closed eye open mouth. all these icons have a thumbnail of the tube deer alongside it, with matching expressions. next to it there are three icons with a basic cartoon character, an icon of a keyboard key with H written on it, one with an arrow pointing to a keyboard key, a trash icon, another thumbnail of the tube deer, and an add icon. in the bottom-right corner, credits read "veadotube mini 1.4 by olmewe; default avatar by bellaexclames", with the transgender flag next to it.

a program that lets you create the simplest virtual avatar that follows your voice. you can make it switch between two pictures as you speak with your microphone, add extra pictures for an eye blinking effect, let the avatar move around, add other sets of pictures for different emotions, so on.

it's part of a bigger project, veadotube, a virtual avatar software suite specialised in 2D avatars that's been in development for a while! veadotube has a core library made in Unity with things like microphone and webcam tracking, image loading, etc, and as i worked on it, i realised it had enough to make a simpler app, which eventually became mini.

the default avatar is Tube the deer (they/them), designed by Bella, who also made the other avatars included with the app.

casual carnival

an illustration of a light blue booth in the background, as the viewer stands outside it. the top banner reads "INFO BOOTH" crossed in red, and "PUPPY BOOTH!" in colourful letters alongside it. inside the booth there's a yellow anthro dog character, smiling at the viewer, wearing a white shirt with black suspenders and a red top hat with orange sparkles. the booth also has a wooden shelf, a professional printer, a chair, a laptop on a tiny table, and signs with gibberish text on the background and next to the viewer. on the foreground, a dark dialogue box on the left, written "PUPPY (puppy): i'm PUPPY! you can count on me to guide you around here."

a collection of minigames to spend the time, inspired by the ones that used to be shipped with our computers a few years ago. nowadays it's hard to find alternatives, as most are riddled with unethical advertisement, especially on mobile.

the current version is a prototype, so it's really just the basic idea of what casual carnival could be, without any polishing. still, it's fully playable, and you can interact with all 5 characters, and play 4 minigames: SOLITAIRE, REVERSI, SUDOKU and BOLAS BOLAS.