3DGoblinDev

📁 Portfolio

game design · boardgames · videogames · print&play · zines · since 2014

🎲Game Design
50Projects
10+Years
20+Jams
⚙️Game Development
👾 About Me

Hi! I'm Arturo Cáceres. A game designer at heart! I'm a systems nerd, I obsess over mechanics and cool interactions, and I chase new and interesting player experiences across whatever medium fits.

I really like making games.

  • Fully designed and crowdfunded a 1vs1 tarot card game (Ludus Fatidicus).
  • Shipped a commercial title (Mycelium Heaven) to Steam, Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation.
  • Over 10 years of solo and jam development across 20+ published games on itch.io.

Fully ready for my next steps in the industry.

📄 CV — Game Designer 💻 CV — Gameplay Programmer 🐙 GitHub 🎮 itch.io
🧩 Design
Systems Design Tabletop Design Rapid Prototyping Level Design Economy Balancing Gamification
🎨 Art & Layout
Graphic Design Photoshop
🎮 Engines
Unreal Engine 5 Unity Godot Construct Narrat Bitsy
💻 Languages
C++ C# Java Python
🛠️ Tools
Git Jira Notion
📚 Education
BSc Computer Engineering BSc Mathematics MA Game Design
⭐ Featured Projects
🧪 Tech Test
Want to see how I code? Here's a full prototype built in 2 weeks as a technical test.
Another Mobile Fishing Tech Test
Another Mobile Fishing Tech Test
Mobile Prototype Tech Test Done ✓ Unity
A Go Fish!-inspired mobile prototype: 10 decoupled systems, event-driven architecture, object pooling, data-driven fish via ScriptableObjects. Built solo in 15 tracked hours.
📅 May → Jun 2025 · ~15h
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Fishing Tech Test screenshot 1
Fishing Tech Test screenshot 2
Fishing Tech Test screenshot 3
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About
A fully playable mobile fishing loop based on Go Fish! by Kwalee: charge and release to cast, steer the hook, collect fish on ascent, upgrade between dives. Built in 15 tracked hours as a technical test, with full production documentation.
Architecture
  • ⚡ Decoupled event-driven architecture: 10 systems communicate via static C# events — no direct references, each independently testable.
  • 🐟 Object pooling: Dictionary<FishData, Queue<FishController>> — species-keyed pools, depth-filtered per cast, recycled on surface return.
  • 📋 Data-driven design: Fish species defined entirely in ScriptableObjects. New species = new asset, zero code changes.
  • ✨ Polished feel: Staggered catch sequence, escalating pitch, coin fly effects, freeze-frame on cast, hook tilt/sway on velocity.
  • 🔧 Lightweight custom tween (MiniTweenFeel) with 5 ease curves. No external dependencies.
Tech
Unity 2022 LTS · URP 2D · C# · ~15h tracked across 9 sessions
📅 May → Jun 2025→ itch.io → GitHub
🏆 Recognition & Awards
🥇
Multiple Creativity Awards
20+ Completed Game Jams
Consistent track record of delivering innovative prototypes under pressure. Highlighted by recent Best Creativity & Innovation awards for projects like "Echar de menos".
🍄
Finalist: Best Puzzle Game
Mycelium Heaven | Devuego Awards 2025
Recognised among the best Spanish indie puzzle games of the year, competing alongside studio productions.
🥳
Successfully Crowdfunded
Ludus Fatidicus | Verkami 2024
Reached funding goal on Verkami, validating design and community appeal before production.
🗣️
Guest Speaker: Game Design
Multiple Events (NewGaming, Bengala, etc.)
Regularly invited to share insights on game design, rapid prototyping, and systemic mechanics at various industry events and local conventions.
🗂️ All Projects
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▸ 2026
PolterDates
PolterDates
NarrativeExperimentalJam GameDone ✓Godot
📅 Jul 24 → 26, 2026
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1 / 3
About
  • 👻 You play as Dolores Delalma, a matchmaker-medium who must pair up wandering ghosts over three days before the candles burn out.
  • 🔮 Draw the pentagram, dial souls up on the Ouija board, and question them to find their perfect match.
  • 💔 Choose wisely! Every match (or mismatch) shapes whether the afterlife becomes a place full of love or broken hearts.
  • 🃏 Made in ~48h for Jaen Jam II (2026), on the theme "Are we the good guys?"
My Role
  • 🔧 Technical Art: particles, lighting and sound implementation.
  • 💻 Additional coding support and game design. Light production.
  • 👥 Team of 6, alongside illustration, narrative, music and programming collaborators.
Tech
Godot · 48h jam
📅 Jul 24 → 26, 2026→ itch.io
Hamilball
Hamilball
Bullet HellSmall GameDone ✓Unity
📅 Apr 2026 (4 days)
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1 / 2
About
  • 🔴 Bullet hell: dodge relentless projectile patterns while racking up a high score.
  • ⚡ Fast arcade boss battle
  • 🏐 Made solo in 4 days as a quick creative sprint.
My Role
  • 🎮 Game Design: Combat design.
  • 💻 Code: All gameplay systems and bullet patterns.
  • 🎨 Art: Visuals and UI.
Tech
Unity · 4 days
📅 Apr 10 → 14, 2026→ itch.io
Glamrock
So, glamrock freddy, what is a game?
ExperimentalPlatformerSmall GameDone ✓Unity
📅 Jan → Mar 2026
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1 / 2
About
  • 🎭 Experimental platformer that plays with the question "what makes something a game?"
  • 📝 Narrative based on Jesse Schell definition of a game.
  • 🌀 All disguised as fnaf shitpost.
My Role
  • 🎮 Game Design: Conceptual design and level structure.
  • 💻 Code: All gameplay systems and transitions.
  • 🎨 Art: Visuals and UI. Low poly 3D model.
Tech
Unity · ~2.5 months
📅 Jan 12 → Mar 29, 2026→ itch.io
Mycelium Duels
Mycelium Heaven PnP Duels
Board GamePrint & PlayDone ✓Tabletop
📅 Feb → Mar 2026
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1 / 3
About
  • 🍄 1vs1 strategy game set in the Mycelium Heaven universe. Adapt the digital puzzle mechanics to the tabletop.
  • 🧟 Each player controls a mushroom trying to consume all zombies before the other does.
  • 🖨️ Print, draw and play. Designed to be easy to produce at home.
My Role
  • 🧩 Game Design: Rules, balance and card design.
  • 🎨 Layout & Illustration: All print-ready assets.
📅 Feb 23 → Mar 1, 2026→ itch.io
Masc Mask
Masc Mask and Masked 🥇
NarrativeExperimentalJam GameDone ✓Godot
📅 Jan → Feb 2026
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1 / 3
About
  • 🎭 You are a forgotten god trying to reclaim your mask, infiltrating human phone apps to do it.
  • 📱 Each "app" leads to different minigame, playing with the subersion of expectations.
  • 🏆 Triple winner at GGJ Granada 2026 out of ~30 teams: Best Game, Best Narrative, Technical & Artistic Performance.
My Role
  • 💻 Lead Programmer: Core systems, minigame architecture, team coordination.
  • 👥 Worked with 6 others including visual artists and writers.
Tech
Godot · Mixed media · 48h jam
📅 Jan 30 → Feb 1, 2026→ itch.io
Dogs Poker
You are Dogs Playing Poker
Card GameJam GameDone ✓
📅 Jan 8 → 15, 2026
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About
You are dogs. You are playing poker. That's the pitch. A jam card game about bluffing your tail off.
My Role
Game design and layout.
📅 Jan 8 → 15, 2026→ itch.io
▸ 2025
ECCE MORS
ECCE MORS
NarrativeZineJam GameDone ✓
📅 Dec 26 → 27, 2025
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About
  • 💀 Behold Death. A short narrative zine inspired by the Four Horseman.
  • 🧩 Comes with a chess-like puzzle.
My Role
  • 🎨 Graphic Design: Full layout and visual direction.
  • 🧩 Puzzle Design: Designed and integrated the end puzzle.
📅 Dec 26 → 27, 2025→ itch.io
Grateful at the gym
Grateful at the gym
NarrativeExperimentalJam GameDone ✓
📅 Dec 23 → 25, 2025
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About
  • Self-fiction about the things I'm grateful for in my life.
  • Full of reps and kindness.
My Role
    Design, writing and illustrations.
📅 Dec 26 → 27, 2025→ itch.io
Spell Caster
Spell Caster
PuzzleJam GameDone ✓Unity
📅 Nov 15, 2025 (1 day)
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1 / 3
About
A puzzle jam game where every dev had just one day to work on the project with no communication. Cast spells with your voice and solve puzzles.
My Role
Code. Designed the draft of the main puzzle. Some 3d art for the creatures.
Tech
Unity · Voice recognition
📅 Nov 15, 2025→ itch.io
Walls This Summer
Walls This Summer
PuzzleZineDone ✓Godot
📅 Jul → Aug 2025
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1 / 3
About
A zine about cool walls. Comes with a puzzle.
My Role
Puzzle and graphic design.
Tech
Godot
📅 Jul 1 → Aug 25, 2025→ itch.io
Stella Amoris
Stella Amoris
NarrativeJam GameDone ✓Narrat
📅 Jul 4 → 6, 2025
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1 / 3
About
  • ✨ A Cosmic Love Story: Follow Lázaro and Aurora across time—from the Middle Ages and Modern Era to the 20th century, present day, and the deep future of space—after they accidentally trap a demon in their orchard.
  • 📖 Rich Narrative: A multi-era journey of love, devotion, and destiny told across 5 unique chapters and ~6,000 words.
  • 🎨 Period-Accurate Aesthetics: Features distinct visual settings utilizing historical collage art meticulously adapted to reflect the artistic movements of each era.
  • 🌌 Jam Concept: Developed in just 48 hours for the GranadaJam Summer Jam 2025 with a writer, perfectly embracing the theme "Hazlo brillar" (Make it shine) through the constant gaze of the stars.
My Role
  • 💻 Gameplay Programming: Scripting choice-driven structures, branching paths, and core logic using the Narrat engine.
  • 🎨 Art & Background Design: Created the game's environment backgrounds using a mixed-media collage technique inspired by authentic artwork from each corresponding historical period.
  • 🖌️ UI/UX & CSS Styling: Customizing the visual interface, text rendering, and layout to build an atmospheric aesthetic.
Tech
Narrat Engine · CSS · Collage Art · 48h Jam
📅 Jul 4 → 6, 2025→ itch.io
Dream Diary
Dream Diary Bookmark
PnP ToolPrint & PlayDone ✓Tabletop
📅 Jul 2025
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About
A print & play bookmark that doubles as an rpg dream journal.
My Role
Concept, design and layout.
📅 Jul 21 → 29, 2025→ itch.io
Reading with Freddy
Reading with Freddy
PnPPrint & PlayDone ✓Tabletop
📅 Jul 2025
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About
A mini fnaf rpg.
My Role
Design and layout.
📅 Jul 21 → 29, 2025→ itch.io
Blackout
Blackout Blackout
NarrativeZineDone ✓Godot
📅 Jun 13, 2025 (1 day)
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1 / 3
About
A comic zine about the national blackout of 2025. Comes with a puzzle at the end.
My Role
Writing, puzzle and art.
Tech
Godot
📅 Jun 13, 2025→ itch.io
Gola
Gola te hice una cosa
BitsySmall GameDone ✓Bitsy
📅 May → Jun 2025
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About
A tiny Bitsy game made as a gift.
My Role
Design, writing and pixel art.
Tech
Bitsy
📅 May 26 → Jun 4, 2025→ itch.io
Rats zine
Rats and BDSM Autism inspired this zine
ZineDone ✓
📅 Apr 15, 2025 (1 day)
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About
A personal zine made in a single day about creativity and art inspiring art.
My Role
Writing, design and layout.
📅 Apr 15, 2025→ itch.io
Echar de menos
Echar de menos 🥇
NarrativeExperimentalJam GameDone ✓Godot
📅 Jan 24 → 26, 2025
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About
  • 🎵 A playable song: the music is the interface, your choices shape the story of a recently deceased witch.
  • 🌿 Poetic, short-form narrative with branching emotional beats — playable in browser.
  • 🏆 Triple winner at GGJ Granada 2025 out of ~30 teams: Best Narrative, Best Music, Best Creativity & Innovation.
My Role
  • 💻 Lead Programmer: Core systems, music-driven interaction, team coordination.
  • 👥 Team of 5 with musicians, writers and visual artists.
Tech
Godot · 48h jam
📅 Jan 24 → 26, 2025 (2 days)→ itch.io
Sisyphus
Sisyphus is Happy
ExperimentalSmall GameDone ✓Godot
📅 Jan 11 → 12, 2025
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About
One must imagine Sisyphus happy. A poetic experimental game made in a single day. Featured in Indiepocalypse Issue #64.
My Role
Design, development and art.
Tech
Godot
📅 Jan 11 → 12, 2025 (1 day)→ itch.io
Let's Make a Monster
Let's Make a Monster
PnP ToolPrint & PlayDone ✓Tabletop
📅 Jan 30, 2025 (1 day)
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About
A creative PnP tool for building monsters from scratch. Roll a D6 and bring abominations to life.
My Role
Game and graphic design.
📅 Jan 30, 2025→ itch.io
Corre que vuelan
Corre que vuelan
Card GamePrint & PlayDone ✓Tabletop
📅 Jan 2025
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About
A quick PnP card game about getting tickets for a jam. Fast to set up, fun to play.
My Role
Game design and layout.
📅 Jan 22, 2025 (1 day)→ itch.io
Mycelium Mini
Mycelium Heaven Mini Puzzle Book
PuzzlePrint & PlayDone ✓Tabletop
📅 Jan → Feb 2025
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1 / 3
About
A printable mini puzzle book in the Mycelium Heaven universe.
My Role
Puzzle amd graphic design.
📅 Jan 1 → Feb 28, 2025→ itch.io
Para Mamá
Para Mamá
NarrativeSmall GameDone ✓Bitsy
📅 Dec 2024 → Jan 2025
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About
A small narrative game made as a gift for my mom.
My Role
Design and development.
Tech
Bitsy
📅 Dec 28, 2024 → Jan 2, 2025→ itch.io
▸ 2024
Party at the Den
Party at the Den
TTRPGSmall GameDone ✓Tabletop
📅 Oct 2024
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About
A tiny 2 player TTRPG about throwing a Halloween party in a cozy den.
My Role
Game design and writing.
📅 Oct 1 → 30, 2024→ itch.io
To Ham
To Ham
BitsyExperimentalSmall GameDone ✓Bitsy
📅 Jul 2024
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About
A small Bitsy game I made beacause I was sad when my frog died. Featured in Indiepocalypse Issue #64.
My Role
Design, writing and pixel art.
Tech
Bitsy
📅 Jul 28 → Jul 29, 2024→ itch.io
Bug Party
Bug Party
BitsySmall GameDone ✓Bitsy
📅 Jun 1, 2024 (1 day)
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About
A one-day Bitsy game. The bugs are having a party and you're invited.
My Role
Design, writing and pixel art.
Tech
Bitsy · 1 day
📅 Jun 1, 2024→ itch.io
Bugs This Semester
Bugs This Semester
BitsySmall GameDone ✓Bitsy
📅 May 2024
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About
A collection of bugs that have been with me this semester — drawn in class or found in the street. Pick up a rock to reveal a little buddy.
My Role
Design, writing and pixel art.
Tech
Bitsy
📅 May 15, 2024→ itch.io
Dumb Goblin DS
Dumb Goblin DS
Dating SimExperimentalSmall GameDone ✓Godot
📅 May 2024
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1 / 3
About
  • 💚 Experimental dating sim starring a cast of goblins doing their absolute best at romance.
  • 🪨 Core mechanic: paint a rock to gift to your chosen lover. The painting mini-game IS the confession.
  • 🎨 Absurdist tone with genuine emotional beats. Surprisingly wholesome.
My Role
  • 💻 Code: All gameplay systems, painting mechanic, dialogue flow.
  • 🧩 Narrative Design: Characters, branching dialogue and endings.
Tech
Godot · ~10 days
📅 May 10 → 20, 2024→ itch.io
One with Tentacles
The One with Tentacles
Board GamePrint & PlayDone ✓Tabletop
📅 Mar 22 → 23, 2024
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About
A 2 player strategy PnP board game made in 2 days.
My Role
Design, art and layout.
📅 Mar 22 → 23, 2024→ itch.io
Hoppity Jesters
Hoppity Jesters
ArcadeMultiplayerJam GameDone ✓Unity
📅 Jan 26 → 28, 2024
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1 / 3
About
  • 🐸 Local co-op (or vs): two frog jesters chained together must perform tricks to amuse their king.
  • ⛓️ The chain mechanic forces coordination (or chaos) depending on your partner.
  • 👑 The king's patience is finite. Fail to entertain and it's off with your heads.
My Role
  • 🎨 3D & Tech Art: Character models, rigs, environments and visual polish.
Tech
Unity · 48h jam
📅 Jan 26 → 28, 2024→ itch.io
▸ 2023
Happy Seal
Happy Seal
ArcadeFull ReleaseDone ✓Unreal Engine
📅 Feb 2021 → Mar 2023
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1 / 4
About
  • 🦭 Score-attack arcade: slingshot a plump seal through icy tundras, tropical islands and pirate coves.
  • 🐟 Eat fish, dodge obstacles, chain combos.
  • 🌎 Multiple worlds, each with unique mechanics and visual themes.
  • 🔁 Complete progression loop with unlockables and a final puzzle level.
My Role
  • 🎮 Game Design: Full systems design, level layout and progression.
  • 💻 Code: Core gameplay loop, physics slingshot mechanic, UI.
  • 🎨 Art: All 2D and 3D assets, animation, VFX.
Tech
  • ⚙️ Unreal Engine 4 · ~2 years of solo development.
📅 Feb 9, 2021 → Mar 31, 2023→ itch.io
Sowin Goblin
Sowin' Goblin
ArcadeMultiplayerJam GameDone ✓Unity
📅 Feb 3 → 5, 2023
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1 / 3
About
  • 🌱 Local multiplayer: goblins compete to sow the most chaos across a shared farm-turned-battlefield.
  • 💥 Plant and grow your crops to gain points. Stomp on the enemy plants to claim their crops.
  • 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Best experienced with 3–4 people on the same couch.
My Role
  • 🎨 3D & Tech Art: Character models, environments and visual integration.
Tech
Unity · 48h jam
📅 Feb 3 → 5, 2023→ itch.io
NewsPapers Please
NewsPapers Please
NarrativeJam GameDone ✓Unity
📅 Jul 28 → 31, 2022
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About
  • 📰 Papers Please-inspired jam game: decide which news stories to publish, knowing some are fake.
  • 🔀 Multiple endings shaped by your editorial choices over the course of a working day.
  • 🎖️ Special mention for Best Female Representation by Femdevs at MálagaJam.
My Role
  • 🎨 Graphic Design & Tech Art: UI, layout and visual identity of the game.
Tech
Unity · 2 days
📅 Jul 28 → 31, 2022→ itch.io
▸ earlier work
Kunimiri
Kunimiri
ArcadeMultiplayerFull ReleaseDone ✓Unreal Engine
📅 Sep 2019 → Nov 2020
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Kunimiri screenshot 1
Kunimiri screenshot 2
Kunimiri screenshot 3
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About
  • 🪨 Local multiplayer: goblins shoot giant boulders taking turns.
  • 🏰 Build your base to protect your king while lobbing projectiles at the enemy.
  • 🎯 Sabotage the enemy boulders sticking chickens and nails to it.
  • 👑 First to destroy the enemy king wins.
My Role
  • 🎮 Game Design: Full mechanics and level design.
  • 💻 Code: Core gameplay systems, physics interactions, UI.
  • 🎨 Art: All 3D models, environments and animations.
Tech
  • ⚙️ Unreal Engine 4 · ~14 months of solo development.
📅 Sep 30, 2019 → Nov 10, 2020→ GameJolt
Pizzabot
Pizzabot
PlatformerPuzzleFull ReleaseDone ✓Unreal Engine
📅 Nov 2016 → Oct 2018
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Pizzabot screenshot 1
Pizzabot screenshot 2
Pizzabot screenshot 3
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About
  • 🍕 Platformer-puzzle hybrid: navigate a delivery robot through obstacle-filled levels to get the pizza there on time.
  • 🤖 Use your robot speed and jet to clear platforming levels.
  • 📦 Multiple worlds with progressively harder puzzle layouts.
  • ⭐ One of my first full releases. 2~ years of solo development from prototype to published game.
My Role
  • 🎮 Game Design: All levels, mechanics and progression design.
  • 💻 Code: Full gameplay systems in Unreal Engine.
  • 🎨 Art: All 3D models, environments and UI.
Tech
  • ⚙️ Unreal Engine 4 · ~2 years of solo development.
📅 Nov 24, 2016 → Oct 29, 2018→ itch.io
Shooting Star
Shooting Star: No Return
Space ShooterJam GameDone ✓Unreal Engine
📅 Jul 10 → 12, 2020
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Shooting Star screenshot 1
Shooting Star screenshot 2
Shooting Star screenshot 3
1 / 3
About
A jam space shooter about a spaceship with a tendency to break down.
My Role
Design and development.
Tech
Unreal Engine · 2 days
📅 Jul 10 → 12, 2020→ itch.io
Plato's Winged Chariot
Plato's Winged Charriot
ArcadeSmall GameDone ✓Construct
📅 Sep 12 → 17, 2019
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About
Arcade game inspired my platos soul myth.
My Role
Design and development.
Tech
Construct
📅 Sep 12 → 17, 2019
Bus Surfer
Bus Surfer
ArcadeSmall GameDone ✓Construct
📅 May 2018
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About
Arcade about dodging grandmas in a bus.
My Role
Design and development.
Tech
Construct
📅 May 18 → 25, 2018
Bottomfly
Bottomfly
ArcadeSmall GameDone ✓Construct
📅 Apr → Nov 2016
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About
A 2016 arcade small game. Fly down. Don't stop. See how far you can go.
My Role
Design and development.
Tech
Construct
📅 Apr 1 → Nov 23, 2016
Baby Chtuluh
The Call of Baby Chtuluh
ArcadeSmall GameDone ✓Unity
📅 Apr → Jun 2016
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About
Baby Cthulhu is calling. An early arcade experiment with cosmic horror aesthetics.
My Role
Design and development.
Tech
Unity
📅 Apr 1 → Jun 25, 2016
God of Sandbox
The God of Sandbox's Adventure
PuzzleSmall GameDone ✓Construct
📅 Jun → Jul 2016
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God of Sandbox screenshot 1
God of Sandbox screenshot 2
God of Sandbox screenshot 3
1 / 3
About
A 2016 puzzle adventure. You are the god of a sandbox and use elemental powers to solve situations. Inspired by Scirbblenauts.
My Role
Design and development.
Tech
Construct
📅 Jun 25 → Jul 4, 2016
Destroy the Earth
Destroy the Earth like a Boss
ArcadeSmall GameDone ✓Construct
📅 Jun 2014 → Sep 2015
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About
Arcade game where ancient gods play football with the earth.
My Role
Design and development.
Tech
Construct
📅 Jun 1, 2014 → Sep 2, 2015
Crazy Car
Crazy Car
ArcadeDrivingSmall GameDone ✓Unity
📅 2015
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Crazy Car screenshot 1
Crazy Car screenshot 2
Crazy Car screenshot 3
1 / 3
About
Where it all started. A 2015 driving arcade where you race a baby, destroy eggs, among other things.
My Role
Design and code. The origin story.
Tech
Unity · 2015
📅 2015