EcoGnomix
EcoGnomix (Irox Games) is a combination of roguelite and city builder where players gather resources using a team of gnomes in dangerous caves and then use those resources to construct a town and process those resources into items that will help them further explore the caves and gather more resources.
Game Engine: Unity
Role: Technical Game Designer (Mar 2024 – Nov 2024)
- Designed and implemented new features and sequences for the game (including boss fights, enemies, player-controlled characters, and buildings) using the Unity Engine
- Conducted playtests and identified issues with features, game balance, or mismatches between the intended player experience and actual gameplay experience
- Implementing fixes for technical issues and tuning game balance based on collected player feedback to improve player experience and to meet creative vision
Cyberspace Liberation
Apr 2021 – Jul 2021 (12 weeks, University Project)
Cyberspace Liberation is a top-down, roguelite game with procedurally generated levels. Shoot and dodge through Cyberspace to stop the entity Triankolos from taking over.
Team size: 10
Game Engine: Unity
Tasks: Design, Programming, Writing
- Did a lot of work on initial design for large parts of the game and ensured overall vision was kept throughout the project
- Implemented all player-related gameplay features using Unity
- Conducted playtesting sessions
- Wrote documentation on, i.e., game design, implementation details, playtesting
- Did a lot of work on initial design for large parts of the game
Code samples and more information here
The Price of Opportunity
Jan 2023 (~5 Days, University Project)
The Price of Opportunity is a management game in which players manage a farm in South America. The game was developed during the Science, Technology, and Society game jam at Technical University Munich. The goal of was to highlight the issues faced by coca farmers in South America, who often have no real alternative but to cultivate coca if they want to survive, using a game
Team size: 2
Game Engine: Unity
Tasks: Game Design, Programming
- Implemented a player controller to allow players to move the camera, build buildings, hire workers, or buy and sell resources
- Implemented a simple worker and resource simulation where workers work in buildings and provide labor to create resources
- Implemented an event system that allowed us to trigger narrative events depending on player actions. Events in turn would also influence workers and resources
- UI Implementation
Code samples and more information here
Steam Scourge
Feb 2022 – May 2022 (14 weeks, University Project)
Steam Scourge is a first-person narrative exploration game. You are trapped in a disease-ridden walled-off district trying to make a quick buck when it all goes south.
Team size: 6
Game Engine: Unity
Tasks: Narrative, Scripting
- Wrote story and dialogues
- Implemented dialogues using narrative scripting language
- Scripted narrative events triggered from dialogue using C#
Greg’s Garbage Garage
Sep 2019 (48 hours, Gamejam)
In this game, you are tasked with managing and expanding Greg’s waste management facility. His Garbage Garage. Sort trash and earn money. Comply with the local recycling regulations and deal with Greg.
Team size: 5
Game Engine: Unity
Tasks: Design, UI Programming, Writing
- Design work on different types of machines, how trash should behave and needs to be sorted, and how players are rewarded for sorting trash
- Programmed and designed most of the in-game UI
- Determined level and narrative progression and wrote corresponding texts
Bite Delight
Apr 2019 (72 hours, Gamejam)
Bite Delight is a roguelike game about a hemophiliac vampire. Try to replenish your blood reserves by beating up patients and staff at the local hospital before draining them of their blood. Survive as long as you can.
Team Size: 4
Game Engine: Unity
Tasks: Design
- Designed player and enemy mechanics
- Built level fragments that were used for procedural generation of levels
- Balancing of mechanics
- Game turned out way harder than intended
Hotel Nero
Dec 2017 (72 hours, Gamejam)
In Hotel Nero, you take control of firefight Gustav and charge into a burning building set ablaze by local pyromaniac and hotel owner Nero. Save as many civilians from the inferno as you can without succumbing to the flames yourself.
Team size: 4
Game Engine: Unity
Tasks: Game and Level Design
- Designed and balanced gameplay mechanics of the game
- Built levels in Unity Editor
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