Here are a few games I’ve worked on…
Not the Robots
This is my first commercial game as well as my first Steam release – it’s a stealth rogue-lite about eating furniture and it costs $10.
Fixation
A prequel to The Company of Myself about habits and addictions. Rather dialogue-heavy.
Fisher-Diver
Fisher-Diver is a minimalist deep-sea fishing game about life, career paths, and the thrill of the hunt.
This is a Work of Fiction
Work of Fiction is a strange little game. 20 puzzles to solve and an enormous conspiracy theory to uncover.
Play This is a Work of Fiction
Viricide and You Find Yourself In A Room
Viricide is actually Breach 3, but it got a brand new title for two reasons. First, it was pretty different from the first two (once you got past the art style). Second, the first two were kind of unsuccessful. But, uh, that’s another story. Viricide focuses on EXADI, a chronically depressed AI who has been infected by all sorts of nasty viruses.
You Find Yourself In A Room is either a prequel, sequel, or midquel to Viricide. I usually call them “sister games” because their stories are related in small ways, but their themes are related in big ways. YFYIAR is the drunken uncle of text adventures: Abusive, abrasive, and maybe a little funny.
Play You Find Yourself In A Room
The Company of Myself
“Company” is a moody little puzzle game where you play as a hermit and learn a little about his life. Heavily inspired by other puzzle games (Braid especially), but still substantially unique in style, execution, and puzzle design. Luka Marcetic made the art and animation, David Carney wrote the music, and I did everything else.
Spewer
Spewer sits somewhere between a puzzle game and an action game. You play as Spewer, a test tube creation with incredible abilities. Most notably, you can throw up like a champ. The game has 50 levels, 5 types of vomit (no, I’m not kidding), and one mad scientist who menacingly monitors your progress. Edmund McMillen did the graphics, I did the code, we shared the game design, Danny B. wrote the music, and Jordan Fehr made the sound effects.
Other games
I’ve made a bunch more games, but they’re all pretty dated (this is a euphemism for “kinda shitty”) by now. Here’s a list of them, though, if you want to look them up some time.
- Breach
- Breach 2
- Stranded
- Float
- Champion
- Reverb Part 1
- Reverb Part 2
There are also some other assorted minor projects that I did for kicks that can be found on my account (2DArray) on Kongregate.
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dude
dude you made spewer too. Thats one of my faves, good games and keep them coming
Henry
I hope you will someday make a sequel to The Company of Myself.
rey
COM is a awesome game!!
kook
The Company of Myself is a fantastic game. I love the gameplay and the sounds + story are awesome (!!)
One of the best flashgames i’ve ever played.
hammam
hammam
DL
Company of Myself is a top class game. Please, make a sequel =D
Deedi
The Company of Myself is a beautiful game 😀 Brilliant. I wait with impatience for sequel, if you make it
Deedi
Eh, emoticons.
High-Lord Vin
Every once and awhile, something comes along and you have new hope in entertainment; such an event was the release of “The Dark Knight”; I would never expect such an event would come from a free online game, but here I am!
great job on CoM! I bookmarked this site and I will check eagerly for you next game 😀
Sean
Just wanted to let you know that your comment pages for blog posts are broken.
Besides that, I wanted to say I saw your post on Reddit and loved everything about the game (especially the ambient music). I stopped playing some of my higher-end PC games for an afternoon because I became so wrapped up in the atmosphere of Company. Thanks again for making a truly beautiful game (and I genuinely mean this) to play free of charge!
Lauren
I want to congratulate you on The Company of Myself. It’s done well on many different aspects that most flash games don’t touch. The music is touching, graphics look great, challenges are substantial, and emotion is involved. I also liked the help option on youtube. The only thing I’m disappointed in is how short it is! Make another one that’s longer! Please
High-Lord Vin
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<p>I want to congratulate you on The Company of Myself. It’s done well on many different aspects that most flash games don’t touch. The music is touching, graphics look great, challenges are substantial, and emotion is involved. I also liked the help option on youtube. The only thing I’m disappointed in is how short it is! Make another one that’s longer! Please <img src="http://www.2darray.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley"> </p>
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I agree
Anon
Company of Myself is really great. Following on that sort of atmosphere in other games would be great. Please make more. Haven’t enjoyed a game as much as this in a long time.
Tobias Willams
I loved Company of Myself as well as Spewer. Although I liked Company of Myself better; it kind of reminds me of myself.
High-Lord Vin
after my friend’s shock wore off, he actually found it funny
this is so because the ending was so unexpected and wow
human emotions are a weird thing…
Bob The Builder
Hey homeboy, I been noticing that you be gettin’ lots of fame with that company of mah self game, now lemme get you straight, aite? That game be same as that one otha’ game, Braid, ya feel me? Simila’ story tellin’, simila’ game design, platformin’; although an enormous decrease in difficulty, and color scheme. And even the main character man, he got that tux on like the dude in Braid. Nd’ ya got that simila’ music, and abstract story n the beginning starts to unfold in the end, just like Braid mayne. You best be given credit where credit be due, othawise I will find you.
Zanam
An emotional piece of brilliance you have created in Company. It touched me in a way no other flash game has, with its emotional impact. I’m curious to know if the story was derived from your personal experiences… It seemed too human to have been a mere creative thought. It speaks to how most of us have felt at one point in our lives, about the love of our lives.
And congratulations on your prize on Kongregate.com, $1500 for winning the monthly contest! Maybe that can go towards making this a bigger project, or another with the same quality.
High-Lord Vin
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<strong><a href="#comment-434">Bob The Builder</a> :</strong>
<p>Hey homeboy, I been noticing that you be gettin’ lots of fame with that company of mah self game, now lemme get you straight, aite? That game be same as that one otha’ game, Braid, ya feel me? Simila’ story tellin’, simila’ game design, platformin’; although an enormous decrease in difficulty, and color scheme. And even the main character man, he got that tux on like the dude in Braid. Nd’ ya got that simila’ music, and abstract story n the beginning starts to unfold in the end, just like Braid mayne. You best be given credit where credit be due, othawise I will find you.</p>
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says someone who speaks in slang…
Krazywrath
I really like your Company of Myself game. It was challenged my mind, and emotions! :O
It’s hard to find games like this anymore. Keep up the good work!!
*also, you should make a sequel for that game* ;D
High-Lord Vin
I just noticed the randomly created page names at the top of the screen
bakaboii98
ur games are awesome!
pls make a sequal to company of myself or spewer PLZZ.
Rafhnisyaira aulia
games i’am theryy is love…….
Maysa
LOVED Company of Myself, another fan hoping for a sequel!
Lior
Hello… I have to say, I am very impressed with The Company of Myself. It is so emotional; the storyline is amazing and heart breaking…….. its very touching and saddening. Best game I have ever played- in all honesty.
Thanks very much.
Monn
I really enjoyed ‘The Company of Myself’ especially the story that went along with it. As I went along playing reaching the level where Kathryn had to die, it made me reflect on my own sufferings. A well made game and also, I would like to know whether there is an mp3 for the game music.
Other than that good job and my thanks for making a game that can pass the time well.
Anonymous
Company Of Myself, like many others here
The moment where you have to push A to make the girl fall and jump on alone came so suddenly, so emotionnally, so perfectly….
I will be keeping an eye on your site
Wilson Silva
You are my heroes. I’m studying hard to be like you. If you post any tutorial or source code please let me know (:
I Am The Manta
Hi Eli,
I’ve recently started gaming blog (didn’t think there were enough of those on the internet…) and my first review is of Spewer. I enjoyed it a great deal, so take a look:
http://iamthemanta.blogspot.com/
Feel free to quote/link to/ignore as you see fit. I realise I don’t exactly carry much critical weight as of yet, but I know from experience that I enjoy reading the smaller blogs’ reviews of my band’s releases as much as the mainstream press ones.
Cheers for a great game – and apologies for leaving an apparently self serving comment, I looked for an email, but couldn’t find one…
I Am The Manta
caleb
i like the game but not A level in the first set of levels.
default0
Hey guy!
Im currently working on some multiplayer stuff, having huge troubles with the server (I cannot get it to connect the clients as it should….), so Id like to ask you, if you could send the source of your game published on Kongregate with the name “Just chatting”, so that I get a point where I can start from.
Simply send it to the email I entered for this comment
Best regards and I hope you will send it to me
luvmycats026
this is about spewer great game but it is a shame that you cant somehow get unlimited puke because i would love it if you could flood whole levels and put the whole level underwater but it would make it easy but you could make it possible to earn the ability of unlimed puke like a secret ability that you have to unlock well i would love to be able to flood whole levels.
Velo
The Company of Myself is a wonderfully crafted game. I enjoyed the storyline, music, and gameplay. Probably the best flash game I have played on the internet thus far.
3rchaos
i loved Company of Myself, but i have NO clue how to get past the part of “i have more to say. i really do”
PrinceViral
Damn!!!!
i can t stop playing “The Company of Myself”. Awesome game and wonderfully done; game-wise and story-wise. Who knew a flash game can touch people like that.
Keep up the good work!
Ethan
I consider you to be one of the most emotion-provoking game designers out there.
Your game "The Company of Myself" has been more emotionally demanding than some major console games out there.
For that, I give props. Wise, clever gameplay, a dreary, moody but touching backstory and damn fine coding make this the best flash game released recently.
I’m a fan.
tGi Hydro
Spewer has a nice ending, great game, and COM is amazingly awesome.
thomas
man spewe on newgrounds doesnt work it just gives me the image of the little guy with his heart pumping and thats it
jacob
if you are thinkin about a sequel to the company of myself please let me know via email great game!!!! ive heard a lot of rumors about it being based on a true story is it ????
Thanks,
Jacob
J.hos
the company of myself is the best game ive ever played but its really sad. i like how even the tutorial is written in first person the whole way till the shrink part. please make a sequel
The 14th Musician
Urgh… I cried playing TCoM.
PLEASE MAKE A SEQUEL.
It’ll be interesting to explore the possibilities of how Jack lives while being alone, as in the feelings of a bit… mental person
Joshua Ying
LOL so mawny people say to make a sequel of COM and I agree. Please do it, sir
Hong Kong Fooey
The Company of Myself is an incredible game, and I am most definitely going to be checking this site every couple weeks for information on a sequel. No pressure though, of course
BLACKBURNJosephine25
Some time ago, I really needed to buy a house for my corporation but I didn’t have enough cash and couldn’t purchase anything. Thank God my comrade adviced to take the mortgage loans from creditors. Thus, I acted that and was satisfied with my secured loan.
Pino
Not as proud of your old games? I remember playing Stranded and Reverb and I absolutely loved them!
BLACK&WHITE
i cant understand the 2d array games. so how to understand it more effective?
jimmy mang
hey man i love your game company of myself
can you send me the music to it? i absolutely love it
Renegade
I would like to note that less than 1000 people have sent in scores for Viricide out of over 400,000 plays. So we can probably say that, like, 10% of people beat it… I am the 877th person to send score after beating. =P hurray
العاب سبونج بوب
These game looks awesome!
File Craft
I played through the “Viricide” game once. I felt genuinely attached to EXADI and felt rather sad when I had to put her down. What an unjust person her programmer was. ))) He makes emotional, feeling AI system, then ODs on antidepressants. Awesome!!!!!!!!
Jay
Your game Company of Myself is presented in an article about browser games on spiegel.de, a major german news site. It’s called “great art”.
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/games/0,1518,728553-3,00.html
Congrats
Ray
Your game Company of Myself is presented in an article about browser games on spiegel.de, a major german news site. It’s called "great art".
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/games/0,1518,728553-3,00.html
Congrats
Ray
Your game Company of Myself is presented in an article about browser games on spiegel.de, a major german news site. It\’s called \"great art\".
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/games/0,1518,728553-3,00.html
Congrats
Lyndsey
love your games, keep them coming
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scraps
every time someone challenged me to always say something like p2p firewall
AcE
Your games are amazing and have great stories!! I found Company amazing. KEEP MAKING THEM PLEASE!!!! 😀
realize stereolithography
Spewer is my favorite of the bunch here. The Company of Myself is a close second though (the puzzles in it were very clever). There is just something about a 2D game that makes me feel like a kid again.
samanta
good topic to talk to
jazzyfizzle
i like your games
Demut
Wait, what the heck? You developed „Stranded“? The 3D survival game for PC?
Chard
Is there somewhere we can donate to you? i just played Company of myself and i was so touched.
2DArray
Chard, I’m not planning on putting up a donation button or anything, but if you really want to send me money, my PayPal account is 2DArray@gmail.com.
Coat Rack
Thanks for the games, I’m always inspired by all the work that goes into begins you have created
Tayna Waegner
A game with 50 levels of puking??? Not my thing, but I’m sure my son would love it. I’ll be sure to tell him about it (and I’ll probably regret it…)
Tayna Waegner
A game with 50 levels of puking??? Not my thing, but I’m sure my son would love it. I’ll be sure to tell him about it (and I’ll probably regret it…)
Hot Tub
Wow, 50 different levels I would imagine that would keep even a diehard gamers busy for a while
Dave
50 levels and 5 types of vomit — gotta love it. But seriously, it’s great to see this level of creativity can still exist in the world of gaming. You’re doing a great service showing that the little guy can still come up with great stuff.
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Nice games. Thanks for sharing.
Drew44
Is there any way to get the music for “This is a Work of Fiction”?
I love it. Reminds me of “Nurse with Wound.”
Fred
You are very creative to come up with these games, and a little weird, too, man. LOL frederick sallaz
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The Wizard
Love your work man. Your story driven games are amazing.
silverfish
Gosh, I really don’t want to get addicted to any more games…but these look so fun.
Nick
The documents from “This is a work of fiction” sound very much like a philosophical concept known as “Hard Determinism.”
I gathered that quite quickly from “The influences”, referring in this case to the things that make us do what we do. The entire concept of free-will is an illusion with determinism, and it makes for an extremely interesting concept.
Jamie
Pleeeeeeeease make a sequel to Company of Myself! It is one of the best games I’ve ever played in my entire life, and I’ve played alot of games XD
Anthony
I would really like a sequel to Company of Myself, and more of the story. I’ve read tons of different theories as to what “happened”, but I want a final, no arguments, creator says, answer to the ending. The puzzles were superb, but the story makes me want to claw my brains out with annoyed wondering.
Maya
Company Of Myself was the best flash game i have ever played! hoping for a sequal!
anastasia
I love your games. Due to a brain injury, I can’t play most games. Though I love yours. The Company of Myself actually helped me a little when I was finishing up ninth grade. I just finished YFYIAR and I loved it. Thank you, continue to make games please. <3
dakota
You make awesome games.
CloudStrife776
IF anyone knows some unblocked proxys plz give them to me SCHOOL IS SO BORING!!!! LOL Good Job on the games though man
TheCactusThief
Why the drastic change in art/graphic styles for the company of myself sequel?
2DArray
@Drew44: If you’re looking for tunes, you should check over at David’s website, DVGMusic.com.
@Anthony: The prequel will shed some new light on the original’s storyline.
@TheCactusThief: You’ll be playing as Kathryn instead of Jack.
Bananfish
I love “The Company of Myself”!
Lauderdale
Fisher-Diver is awesome game. Will be great if you make a sequel with more species of fish, more weapons, and maybe longer story line…
XMD
<3 Fixation
Dunkelbunt
yeah, company of myself, on one the most beautiful flash games i ever played, pleeeeeease make a sequel ._.
cherry
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Victor
The best game on this page is Fixation
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Blue
You should definitely make a sequel of “The company of myself”
Just my opinion
Blue
I mean….. other than “fixation” which was pretty great
Araman
Thank you for “Company of Myself” and “Fixation”! Such beautiful games. You’re truly a genius, Eli, and I wish you all the best.
viralintruder
Fixation was simultaneously awe-inspiring and melancholy… I felt sad at the end. Just beautiful games you have made over the years. I previously didn’t know you made Breach and Viricide (both of which I loved immensely) until i looked up your profile on Kongregate and got here.
I can’t express how satisfying flash games with deep stories to be told are, and you certainly know how to pump them out. Originality and heart appeal are your strong suits, and I am definitely looking to another one of your games! Keep doing what you do best! ♥
Harvos
Company of Myself would have to be one of the best game i’ve ever played, thanks. Keep up the good work!
James Raynor
Sir/Maam,
Your games are an inspiration! I hope you have a long and rewarding career making such great and fun stories.
Sincerly,
James Raynor
Patrick B-D
Your games are artworks, in fact TCOM and fixation are back to back my first and second fave flash games, ever. I implore you to make a third one in the series, as I really want to explore Jacks back story more, or perhaps the part in between the murder and his confinement. Regardless of the topic, please do make another in the series.
Thanks for the hours of entertainment,
Patrick B-D.
abdullah
spewer is GREAT its fun and it has great phisics. if there was a sequel with much more power ups and features that would EEEEPPPPIIIICCC! and congrats i checked out your games and wow i amazed bro!
Rei
I would like to inform you that, on all sites I tried, the first level of Company of Myself is broken. When you press space in front of the door, it restarts the level. Could you please fix it. I was really looking forward to playing it.
John
OMG you made the Reverb AND The Company of Myself games? WOW, I loved all of those games SO MUCH! Especially TCoM! I just was laughing so hard watching all the clones jump around, but in all seriousness I LOVED the plot so much! And Fixation tied in very nicely! You are awesome!
Peter
Hi, 2D just came by to say that you should port your best games like Viricide, Fixation, and The Company of Myself to Steam. I would buy it full price!
Ducki
I really love The Company of Myself and Fixation. They have really helped me think, I’m serious. I love those games so much. Will you make another game that is part of the storyline? I really love those games. And is there some way I can subscribe to you or something so I know when it comes out?
Sabre Shadow
I love your work. <3