Features

Button Mashing Action Game • Urban Super Hero Setting • 8-Bit Retro-Style • Social Intergration (Facebook & Twitter) • High Scores • Web & Mobile • Free to play

Technologies

Team

Development: myself
Graphics: Christophe
Sound: rolemusic

Background

Towel Defence started out as a prototype at a Game Jam. After that it continued as a spare time project. The main goal was to have a finished game.

References

1. The Android robot is reproduced or modified from work created and shared by Google and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License.

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Features

Economic Simulation and Point-and-Click Adventure Game • Nature, Jungle and Garden Setting • Semi Realistic Comic Style • Social Integration (Facebook & Twitter) • High Scores • Achievements • Browser Game seamlessly integrated into Websites • Freemium Pricing Strategy • Virtual Currency • Shop • Own Game Engine

Technologies

Team

Development: myself + 3 developers
Graphics: 3 artists

Background

The Playotope GmbH game studio created this game for Greenpeace Argentina. I worked for Playotope GmbH as a freelancing developer.

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Features

Easy to use Game Editor • Platform Game (aka Jump ’n’ Run) • Different Settings: Pirates, Politics, X-Mas • Comic Style • Social Integration (Facebook & Twitter) • High Scores • Browser Game seamlessly integrated into Websites • Own Social Cosmos: Share Games, Comment on Games or Users, etc. • Own Game Engine

Technologies

Team

Development: myself + 1 developers
Graphics: 1 artists

Background

This was the first Game of the Startup game studio Playotope GmbH. I worked for Playotope GmbH as a freelancing developer.

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Background

The Playotope GmbH game studio created this game for Generali insurance company. I worked for Playotope GmbH as a freelancing developer. This game was a stripped down version with changed graphics of the more complex game Chaos Cats.

Features

Side-Scrolling Game • Super Hero Setting • Comic Style • Social Integration (Facebook & Twitter) • High Scores • Browser Game seamlessly integrated into Websites • Own Game Engine

Technologies

• Languages: UML • Java (Backend) • html5 (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) • ActionScript
• Libraries & Frameworks: Facebook • Twitter • Flash • Own Game Engine • Google App Engine
• Automated Testing: Custom Test Framework
• Version Control: SVN
• IDE: Eclipse • Flash

Team

Development: myself + 1 developer
Graphics: 2 artists

Details

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Features

Side-Scrolling Shooter Game • Cats vs. Dogs Setting • Comic Style • Social Integration (Facebook & Twitter) • High Scores • Browser Game seamlessly integrated into Websites • Freemium Pricing Strategy • Virtual Currency • Shop • Own Game Engine

Technologies

• Languages: UML • Java (Backend) • html5 (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) • ActionScript
• Libraries & Frameworks: Facebook • Twitter • Google Analytics • Flash • Own Game Engine • Google App Engine
• Automated Testing: Custom Test Framework
• Version Control: SVN
• IDE: Eclipse • Flash

Team

Development: myself + 1 developer
Graphics: 2 artists

Background

This was Playotope GmbH game studio’s second game. I worked for Playotope GmbH as a freelancing developer. I also worked on their first project before.

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Games

Each of these games deserves it’s own page and will get it sooner or later. For now here’s an overview of my prototypes and mini games.

ZapRat

• Play: 
• With: me, Julia, Anastasia, Markus
• Context: 8 hour mini game jam
• Technology: Construct 2
• About: Teleporting Rat + Cyborg Cats with Lasers. Read more here.

Direct & Conquer

• Play:  (Use the mouse to play)
• With: me, Birgit, Daniel, Alexander
• Context: 8 hour mini game jam
• Technology: Plain JS spaghetti code
• About: Realtime Strategy/Tactics game in a medieval setting.

Viking Boat Simulator 2014

• Play:  (Use the ‘A’ and the ‘K’ buttons)
• With: me, Huel, Roman
• Context: 8 hour mini game jam
• Technology: Panda.js
• About: 2 player local multiplayer game. Rescue the castaway before the shark catches it.

Grannies vs. Zombie-Orge

• Play:  (Click to hit the ogre with your granny – Server down, i.e. Single Player)
• With: me, Simon, Mirco
• Context: 8 hour mini game jam
• Technology: Construct 2, HTML5 and python backend
• About: MMO where hordes of grannies fight the cat throwing zombie ogre who trampled down their roses.

Alien Shield Brothers

• Play: 
• With: me, Laura, Hector
• Context: 8 hour mini game jam
• Technology: TypeScript + html5 + Phaser
• About: Local coop 2 player game

The Guy With The Green Towel

Button Mashing Game created on an 8 hour mini game jam with

• Play: 
• With: me, Sam, Stefano, Christophe
• Context: 8 hour mini game jam
• Technology: Construct 2 and html5
• About: Button Mashing Game in an urban setting. This game was improved to the much cooler Towel Defence.

Further Prototypes and Minigames

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Context

This project is currently under development. A multiplayer Asteroids game isn’t that exciting by itself, but we use it as a case study for experimenting. Our experiments include:

• GitHub best practices
• browser-to-browser communication with WebRTC
• Best practices for structuring TypeScript projects
• Automated Testing of TypeScript projects
• Exaggerated use of the Law of Demeter to minimize the coupling and maximize the scalability
• Automated Builds and Continious Integration for TypeScript projects

Features

Asteroid Game • Realtime Multiplayer Action • No Server Required • Browser and Mobile

Technologies

• Languages: TypeScript • html5 (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) • UML • JSON
• Web Libraries: WebRTC • phaser • peerJS • requireJS
• Automated Builds: tsd • yo • yeoman • npm • grunt • bower
• Automated Testing: Karma • TeddyMocks • Custom Framework • mocha • chai
• Continuous Integration: GitHub • Travis CI
• IDE: Eclipse

Team

Me and my room mate, who also is a professional software developers with different background.

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Context

This spare time project was aborted at prototype stage since the game play didn’t “feel good”. Nevertheless it’s concepts, graphics and themes may be reused in another upcoming game.

Features

Top Down Action Game • Real-time Action • Mobile

Technologies

• Language: C#
• Tools: Unity
• Version Control: GitHub
• IDEs: Unity • MonoDevelop • Visual Studio

Team

Me and a friend with a background in who’s a beginner in graphics and design. Concept and Animations where done by both of us.

Details

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Context

One Idea of Augmented Reality is the mirror below. This mirror shows an altered version of you. Thus it allows you to select your clothing in a menu. You don’t need to change it in reality.

One component of this augmented mirror is an algorithm to analyse the real clothing.

I developed an algorithm which analyses the structure of clothing and fabric to find patterns.

Idea

The algorithm takes an image of the clothing as input and extracts the structure (mesh) and texture seen in the image.

Extract the Structure (Mesh) of  an Image

Extract the Texture of an Image

Using this structure new textures could be applied to the structure to complete the mirror.

Details

I published the complete student research paper  (in german).

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