It's crazy how time flies, I was archiving off some old data this week and one of the folders was my old gamejam warmup project directory. Most of them are clones of arcade games with the goal to replicate the "feel" as exactly as possible over a weekend. I've actually found myself going back and playing some of them. One I'm particularly proud of was my LD45 warmup (which I never entered due to work that weekend), a 4 player Balloon Fight clone with randomly generated levels of increasing difficulty. I couldn't help but play it for a little bit, and honestly forgot just how good the gameplay felt. Obviously since these are clones and I'm not an artist I generally use sprite rips, so I can't really release these.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN7HoSOt37Y

Does anyone else get nostalgic sometimes about old things they wrote? I'd love to see other warmups, experiments, etc, that others are fond of but never really got released.