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{{featured}}A somewhat frustrated former user, who struggled both with [[Game-Maker]]'s boundaries and with regular catastrophic data loss. Regardless, some material still survives.

== Background ==

Roger Levy:
: I've got a couple playable demos, [but] they are so rough - sadly a large amount of more impressive stuff was lost in multiple hard drive crashes and ruined floppy disks due to living near a radio tower when I was a kid. 

[[File:h1.gif|center|frame|A rough sprite]]

: The first original character I made when I was learning GM was a little boy named Kevin, who wore teal PJ's.  The game I was trying to make for him was an obstacle course of extreme obstacles like guillotines, giant mechanical hammers with spikes on them, acid waterfalls etc, inspired by ''Lemmings'', which I also tried to emulate graphics from such as meticulously animated water, lava, fire, and a lemming character before Kevin. 

: I wanted a custom animation for each deadly obstacle, but didn't realize while doing it that I could only have one death animation, so I gave up, but now I know that I could have probably made the animations part of the background somehow.

[[File:Moopie.gif|center|frame|Moopie]]

: Some point later I tried to make a vertical shootemup, got bored and then started a ''Metroid'' clone with elements of "organic world" games like ''Contra'' and ''Abadox''.  I had painstakingly made some pretty badass tiles and the start of the character.  Instead of bubble doors I had interlocked tusks sticking out of the walls that would open when you touched them.  Then I think there was a hard drive crash.  

: Then I made a complete short game with a friend about a red balloon that floating upwards always and you dodged and killed things. Together we also came up with Fluffy the Squirrel, a squirrel in a hazmat suit (I didn't know how to draw a hazmat suiit  when designing him sooo haha that's why it doesn't look like one.) 

[[File:Fluffy.gif|center|frame|Fluffy the Squirrel]]

: Then I played ''Yoshi's Island'' and was inspired to make an action adventure game, and came up with ''[[Andy in Asunderland]]'' about a blonde boy in jeans and a T-shirt that gets sucked into a wormhole that appears in his back yard randomly, and everything in the dimension on the other side is pretty trippy.  

: The version [that survives] was way before another crash.  I had made a world map for the first world, hacked intro screens for each level  (LEVEL 1-1, LEVEL 1-2, etc - it was drawn like chalk on a chalkboard and looked very nice), and a plan for what each world was going to be and kind of a story involving these "coin-head" characters with X's for eyes.

== Links ==

=== Sites ===

* [http://rogerlevy.net/blog/about/ Purple Ghost Cat]
* [http://rogerlevy.net/ rogerlevy.net]

==== Social Media ====

* [http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=19789.msg575599#msg575599 Re: How did you get to where you are today?] (TIGSource forums)
* [https://twitter.com/kidfingers Twitter feed]

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