Manny Fluss

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About Me

Hello! My name is Manny Fluss. I am a graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz with a Bachelor's in Computer Science and Game Design. Solving problems and being creative with coding are my passions. Outside of coding, my hobbies include playing video games, traveling, surfing, and speaking Spanish.

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Featured Games Timeline

These are games I have created over the past year with a variety of different tools over four years. Feel free to explore and try out these games for yourself through their playable links.

MannyGame3D, 2023

MannyGame3(D), is a 3D puzzle-platformer game created in the Godot game engine. It features a possession mechanic, where players have to manually control several different characters in order to solve level objectives.

Made in Godot 3D.

Notable Features

  • Modular ability and equipment systems
  • Fully dynamic input system
  • Portable Module Design
  • PSX absurdist style
  • Capybara

Shuffle-City, 2022

Shuffle-City was made as a student project. It is a strategy game where players create a city in real-time, placing buildings that work together to earn currency. While players are expanding their city, they must dynamically rearrange it so that it does not get destroyed by incoming meteors.

Made in Phaser, a JavaScript library.

Notable Features:

  • Tile-Based city creation and destruction
  • Radio feature with 6 unique songs

Cheese Game, 2020

Cheese Game was a top down turn based game made in one week for the Godot Wild Jam. It is a strategy game where players control a group of bandits tasked with invading the Scary CORP laboratory.

Made in Godot 2D.

Notable Features:

  • NPC AI
  • Destructible Terrain
  • This game is like if XCOM was made in a week

Grapple Game, 2020

Grapple game was a 2D platformer short form game made with a central grapple hook mechanic and several platformer rooms that progressively get more difficult.

Made in Godot 2D.

Notable Features:

  • Dynamic Celeste like camera system
  • First complete 2D game made in Godot
  • Cute sprite for the main character

Intergalactic Smoothie CORP, 2021

Intergalactic Smoothie Corp was made during a three-day GameJam in 2021. It is a simulation game where players race to serve customers with their otherworldly smoothie requests.

Made in Godot 2D.

Notable Features:

  • Utilizes data structures for flexible smoothie orders
  • First Game released that is playable online
  • Personally I want a Bug, CO2 and Milk smoothie

Drawn Out, 2021

Drawn out was a 2D top down survival game where players are tasked with defending themselves against the horde of evil drawings. It was made as part of the Global Game Jam 2021 in 2 days.

Made in Godot 2D.

Notable Features:

  • Contains a NavMesh that recalculates itself based off changing terrain.
  • Was made completely independently
  • My parents really like this game

Distracction!, 2022

Distracction! was a 2D endless runner game made in three weeks for a student project. Players must dodge the raccoons at all costs, thankfully they are highly distracted by text messages.

Made in Phaser, a JavaScript library.

Notable Features:

  • Raccoons
  • More Raccoons
  • Even More Raccoons

Tower Defense/MannyGame, 2022

MannyGame was a top down survival game made in two weeks, players are tasked with defending the tower against a cast of whacky minions. Defeating the minions makes the tower stronger, but the minions are getting stronger too...

Made in CrispGameLib, a JavaScript library.

Notable Features:

  • Playable directly in browsers and on mobile.
  • Uses an extensive amount of classes and Object Oriented Principles.
  • The first, and most iconic MannyGame

Aimless Escape, 2022

Aimless Escape was a first person survival horror game made in three weeks for a student project. Players must collect three puzzle pieces and make it to the door to escape.

Made in Unity and C#.

Notable Features:

  • Non-Euclidian geometry
  • Immersive FPS experience
  • I made this game, and it's still scary!

Ocean-Odyssey, 2023

Ocean Odyssey is a fully featured 2D/3D top down action game made over 6 months with a team of 11 people, featuring 4 unique environments and 2 bosses. Players collect unique upgrades that modify their hack and slash capabilities.

Made in Unity and C#.

Notable Features:

  • Feature complete game
  • Blends 2D and 3D art style, similar to Paper Mario
  • Assets made for this game have been stolen by Twitter accounts, we made it big.

MannyGame 2, 2023

MannyGame 2 is a multiplayer version of MannyGame, it is a top down version of the game where players are wizards with unique ability upgrades. Enemies have unique behaviors that have to be overcome.

Made in Godot 2D

Notable Features:

  • Feature complete game
  • Contains Peer to Peer Multiplayer
  • Features extensive use of polymorphism and Object Oriented Principles

Freelance Work


Brain Computer Interface

A program made for the YouTuber Dom. This program interacts with the Emotiv BCI hardware, which then translates thoughts, such as push or pull, into keystrokes.
Dom used this software to create a YouTube video where he completes Minecraft only using his brain.


Toal Engineering Spreadsheet Software

Python program that was made for the company Toal Engineering. It takes in a CSV file and outputs a formatted spreadsheet. This program was custom designed and reduces non-billable hours.

Research Contribution

This was a study comparing different methods of prompting chatGPT 3.5, and measuring how it effected its accuracy. Methods tested included: prompting, person, and chain of thought.