Jimmy Marcus Munk

Me

My name is Jimmy and I am a game designer, programmer and project manager from Aalborg, Denmark. I have more than 10 years of industry experience, and I have created all kinds of games. Mostly as a game designer and project lead, but also as a programmer.

As a designer I value functional prototyping highly, and I have the skills to create any prototype from scratch, using a wide range of programming languages and tools. For me game design is about finding and polishing a fun core loop.

When I'm programming my focus is on getting things done, and I consider myself a fast and efficient programmer. My skills are definitely not limited to prototyping, as I have programmed and released several full games.

I live with my wife and our two kids (age 15 and 18), and we spend most of our spare time travelling and competing in card game tournaments all around the world.

Projects

Here is a small selection of some of the projects I have worked on, either professionally or in my sparetime.

• Farm Empire (2017)
• Neighbor Wars (2015)
• Voodoo Friends (2013)
• Dice Wiz (2009)

Farm Empire

Farm Empire is an idle game or "clicker game" inspired by Adventure Capitalist, but with a farming theme. You buy crops and livestock to increase your earnings, hire managers to do the work for you and simply try to progress towards the milestones the game has set for you.

Working on an idle game has been a huge learning experience. The balancing of a game that is supposed to take years to complete, is a big challenge and I made several tools to assist me in this task. Designing purchases that are desirable for players has been another interesting challenge.

The game was (and is) a big succes. We continually release new content for the game, and earnings has been way beyond expectations.

Neighbor Wars

Neighbor Wars is a fully original game. I wanted to make an asynchronous multiplayer game, where people would log in and take their turns when they had the time. This concept would allow players to play another game on our site, while casually taking turns in Neighbor Wars at the same time.

You collect ressources through a match-3 style game, and use these ressources to launch attacks at your opponent. You must make five moves each turn, with a move being either a match to collect ressources or the spending of ressources to launch an attack.

There is some strategy involved in collecting the right ressources, and spending them on the right attack. Collecting ressources is non-trivial, because your opponent is playing in the same grid and might be collecting the same kind of ressources.

One interesting challenge when making this game, was to make sure the starting player didn't have an advantage. I decided on having a fixed amount of random initial ressources for the second player, and balanced this amount through the statistics collected. A perfect 50/50 win percentage for the starting player was achived.

Voodoo Friends

With Voodoo Friends I was partly inspired by the Blizzard classic Lost Vikings, in that you have to solve puzzles by utilizing the abilities of three different characters. The game should be played with a mouse or touchscreen though, so I made it a grid-based puzzle platformer with zero action elements.

The player is given control of three different voodoo dolls. One is strong, one is small and one is agile. In addition to the abilities granted by these traits, the player can put different kinds of needles in the dolls. For instance, the umbrella needle that can save a doll from a long fall.

I knew that we would not be creating additional content for the game after release, so a user-friendly level editor was created. In addition to that, there is a user-driven playtest system that rewards players for testing new levels, and through statistics and ratings we can select and release the best levels.

The game is still actively played today, and 12 new user-created levels are released each week.

Dice Wiz

DiceWiz is a sparetime project, that was never fully completed. I wanted to create a SquareEnix-style RPG, with an original combat system. It's turn-based, but instead of just choosing attacks, you roll dice to decide which attacks will be availble for you.

The story follow students on Luckwarts - school of dice, in their quest to become full-fledged Dice Wizards. I made quite a lot of story, initial quests and tutorial battles along with boss fights and differents enemies. So much code was written, but not enough content for a full game.

In the end though, work interfered and I was unable to finish the game. Still, it was a lot of fun creating and I learned a lot about turn-based combat AI, quest systems and dialog systems.

If you are still in possesion of a Flash Player, you can download the game right here: DiceWiz.swf

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