Game Development Projects
Haru's Card Prototype
February 2025 - WIP, Creator
Haru's Card Prototype is a simple prototype for a rogue-lite deckbuilder game by Haru Zemsky.
Play as the many victims of the Dealer's greed as you summon units, perform rituals, and defeat the Seven Lords.
Try it out at in-browser on Itch.io.
Disruptive Dog - CHICAGHOUL 2024
Aug 2024, Programmer (Contributor)
A GAME FOR CHICAGHOUL 2024 BY:
Danny Hoffswell - Concept, Game Design, 3D Art, Writing
Cass Suarez - 2D Design, Game Design, Programming
Haru Zemsky - Programming
Mae Mae - Poster Design
Play the game in-browser on Itch.io.
Haru's Scalar Game - GMTK Game Jam 2024
Aug 2024, Creator
Haru's Scalar Game is a solo game development project by Haru Zemsky for the GMTK Game Jame 2024 where you can grow and shrink.
It was made over the course of four days.
Play the game in-browser on Itch.io.
Infobroker (WIP)
2024, Creator
Exploit the power struggles across Postamerica for your own gain.
Infobroker (temporary title) is an exploration narrative game where you must gather information to get your way.
It is a dialogue-focused stylized game that incorporates photogrammetry with traditional techniques to create a complex world.
See the devlog for more details.
Team Mechronicles - T0B1 Through Time
2024, Programmer and Design Support
T0B1 Through Time is a third-person narrative shooter where you play as T0B1, a friendly robot who must research and defeat the mysterious Anachronist cult. Battle against the Anachronists with your independantly aimed dual blasters as you explore three distinct eras as you puzzle, platform, and fight your way through this time-traveling adventure. T0B1 Through Time was presented by Team Mechronicles at the DePaul School of Design's 2024 Opus Showcase.
Ketchup Beat!
2023, Creator
Ketchup Beat! is an extension for Ketchup Engine which adds rhythm game systems such as a song player with consistent timing and song synchronization, gameplay objects such as notes and lanes, and tools for reading rhythm game charts from a MIDI file. Throughout development, new features were also added to the base engine, such as an improved UI system and a new heightmap-based terrain system. Below is a clip of gameplay from the demo game made to demostrate these features.
Ketchup Engine
2023, Creator
Ketchup is a 3D game engine developed by Haru Zemsky throughout the 2022-23 Winter and Spring quarters at DePaul's CDM. Built on CDM's Azul graphics library, Ketchup provides easy-to-use services for managing updating and drawing game objects, entities, and scenes. Ketchup also provides services for event-based mouse and keyboard input, single and repeating alarms and collision. Additionally, Ketchup provides the user with dev tools such as a visualizer for invisible objects, an on-screen log, and the KMath math library.
See the official documentation and tutorials (W.I.P.) for more details.