Games

Chicken Tic-Tac-Toe

I'm currently taking the free Harward CS50 Introduction to Computer Science course and built a chicken tic-tac-toe for the scratch Read more

EXIT 2 - The Trial of the Griffin

A collaboration with publisher United Soft Media. Puzzle adventure for iOS, Android, and Steam, based on the award-winning EXIT – Read more

Medical VR - Search Training

Search Training is a medical VR application that trains hemianopsia patients to compensate for their vision loss with eye movement Read more

The aMAZEing Labyrinth

A mobile adaption of the classic 'Das verrückte Labyrinth' by Ravensburger. Genre: Puzzle Platform: Mobile (android, ios) Artstil: 3D Read more

Craftspeople at the Museum

I'm really happy to announce that the Museum der Alltagskultur (museum of everyday culture) in Waldenbuch added Craftspeople to their Read more

A Jesters Tale

A Jesters Tale is a small rhythm game/RPG prototype that I had the pleasure to contribute to at the first Read more

EXIT 1 – The Curse of Ophir

Won the Pädagogischer Medienpreis 2022 (educational award). Nominated for ‘Best Mobile Game’ at the Deutscher Entwickler Preis 2021. A Read more

Memory®

A mobile adaption of the classic Memory® game by Ravensburger. Genre: Puzzle Platform: Mobile (android, ios) Artstil: 3D Engine: Read more

Ubongo for Nintendo Switch

The digital adaption of the board game Ubongo for Nintendo Switch. Genre: Puzzle Platform: Nintendo Switch - exclusive Read more

Craftspeople

This is the prototype of an interactive learn-app for children created at the cultural hackathon 'Coding da Vinci Süd 2019' Read more

Space Shop VR

Space Shop VR is an multiplayer-VR game for which you just need 1 VR-headset. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygqLtUSmv3k Genre: Puzzle Platform: Read more

Vices

- What Remains of Edith Finch meets 13 Reasons Why. - Vices is the prototype of a story focused adventure Read more

Aeronauts

Aeronauts is the prototype of a settler like strategy game for mobile. Genre: Realtime strategie Platform: Android Artstil: Comic Read more

Demolition Disaster

Demolition disaster is a fast-paced local multiplayer battle arena. Genre: Lokale Multiplayer Battle-Arena Platform: Windows Artstil: 3D Comic Engine: Read more

Mother Earth

Mother Earth is a puzzle-game and an interactive story. Genre: Puzzle adventure Platform: Android (Google Play Store) Artstil: Read more

Chicken Tic-Tac-Toe

I’m currently taking the free Harward CS50 Introduction to Computer Science course and built a chicken tic-tac-toe for the scratch assignment. Tic-Tac-Toe was one of the first things I programmed in university and is now my go-to project when trying out new programming languages and frameworks.

Team: Just me

Art & Sound: Scratch library

Year: 2023

Duration: 2 hours

EXIT 2 – The Trial of the Griffin

A collaboration with publisher United Soft Media. Puzzle adventure for iOS, Android, and Steam, based on the award-winning EXIT – The Game® board game series.

Genre: Puzzle

Platform: Android/iOS and Steam

Artstil: 2D with 3D items

Engine: Unity 3D

Year: 2022-2023

The second digital adaptation of the series invites players to the legendary Greifenstein castle, located deep in the German highlands known as the Harz. A mystery surrounding the countess, which had not been seen for years, awaits.

Various special items can be used to contact the ghosts that haunt the stone halls of Greifenstein. The countess’ secrets must be uncovered by solving logical puzzles with a supernatural touch. Each of the castle’s distinct rooms offers a unique and dense atmosphere for players to immerse themselves in. Keeping in tradition with the board games, everything in and around the game can be part of the puzzles.

The entrance of the castle Greifenstein.
A magic board to communicate with the death.
A shadow puppet.
The castle garden
A strange wooden casket.
The adder stone in action.

Medical VR – Search Training

Search Training is a medical VR application that trains hemianopsia patients to compensate for their vision loss with eye movement and collects training data.

Genre: Medical App

Platform: Google Daydream

Artstil: 2D

Engine: Unity 3D

Year: 2018

Configurable stimuli pairs are displayed on a sphere surrounding the user. Head movement can’t be used to control the viewpoint, forcing the user to use her eyes to compensate. The app tracks response times and error values which are written to the SD card of the device for later analysis.

Multiple difficulty settings and stimuli pairs can be configured in a setup file (JSON Format). Stimuli are provided as TIFF files and are loaded at runtime according to the setup file. A Fibonacci Sphere is used to space the stimuli ‘evenly’ on the sphere surface and minimise visual artefacts. The area and quadrants in which stimuli are displayed can be configured.

The app was used in 2 master’s theses in psychology at LMU Munich.

The aMAZEing Labyrinth

A mobile adaption of the classic ‘Das verrückte Labyrinth’ by Ravensburger.

Genre: Puzzle

Platform: Mobile (android, ios)

Artstil: 3D

Engine: Unity 3D

Year: 2021

Duration: 7 month

My Part:

Artificial intelligence
Pawn movement
General gameplay features

All of the rules – like shifting the labyrinth and collecting treasures and secrets – were transferred to the digital version, in order to provide a faithful experience to players. A fresh breath of air comes with the 3D environment, in which the game table is located. It is decorated like the room of a wizard’s tower and sets the right mood and atmosphere.

Next to the classic Labyrinth and Junior Labyrinth, several other editions with slightly different rules are included in the app to spice things up. The Ocean Labyrinth, Master Labyrinth and country editions all add a new layer to the gameplay and also come with their own handcrafted table decoration, music and visual appearance.

Craftspeople at the Museum

I’m really happy to announce that the Museum der Alltagskultur (museum of everyday culture) in Waldenbuch added Craftspeople to their exhibition. It’s a game I contributed to at the Coding da Vinci Hackathon in 2019.

A Jesters Tale

A Jesters Tale is a small rhythm game/RPG prototype that I had the pleasure to contribute to at the first Nementic Game Jam. The player character is a jester whose goal is to entertain the king. He will play for simple townspeople, at taverns or larger cities on his journey.

I will not upload a web build of the prototype for you because we added copyrighted music. We planned to replace the tracks with free music but the time ran out.

Genre: Rythm Game

Platform: PC

Artstil: Cute 2D

Year: 2022

Development Time: 3 Days

Team:

2 Programmer
2 Artist
1 Game Designer

World map/level selection of the game.
Instructions on how the game is played.
Jester on the left and all NPCs on the right.
Main menu of the game.

EXIT 1 – The Curse of Ophir

Won the Pädagogischer Medienpreis 2022 (educational award).

Nominated for ‘Best Mobile Game’ at the Deutscher Entwickler Preis 2021.

A collaboration with publisher United Soft Media. Puzzle adventure for iOS and Android, based on the award-winning EXIT – The Game® board game series.

Genre: Puzzle

Platform: Mobile – Android/iOS

Artstil: 2D with 3D items

Engine: Unity 3D

Core Team:

Producer
3 Game Designer
Technical Artist
2 Programmer
3 Artist
Sound and Music Designer

Year: 2020-2021

My Part:

Interaction with 3D objects
Painting on 3D objects
Notebook implementation
Implementation of puzzle elements

The app was created as a fully new singleplayer experience. You take the role of a hobby detective, searching for the whereabouts of a famous writer. Your trail leads into an old and mysterious gold rush hotel in the Wichita Mountains.

All items you collect during your journey can be inspected and manipulated as 3D objects in your inventory. The hotel itself offers handcrafted 2D backgrounds for each room the player is exploring. These rooms contain various puzzles, from solving classic number codes to more complex riddles that will have you travel through time or think beyond the game world itself.

The bar of the hotel Ophir in the year 1868.
The lobby of the hotel Ophir in the year 1968.
A guest room of the hotel Ophir in the year 1968.
A strange artifact that can be used to travel in time.
A page of the notebook containing tickets.
The zodiac lock in the lobby.

Memory®

A mobile adaption of the classic Memory® game by Ravensburger.

Genre: Puzzle

Platform: Mobile (android, ios)

Artstil: 3D

Engine: Unity 3D

Year: 2020

Duration: 5 month

My Part:

Complete UI and menus
Device orientation handling
Screen fitting of 3D elements
Card layouts
Music system

The family game memory® has thrilled players of all ages worldwide for over 60 years.

The Ravensburger memory® app offers many new and classic card sets. New sets are regularly added and can be tried out for free.

Variants with sound and images, for example, make you think outside the box and guarantee many hours of fun. And the “digital assistant” opens up new ways of playing.

Whether playing solo or with up to five other players, memory® is a fun brain trainer for everyone.

The main menu with all available card sets.
There a special card sets where you have to match a picture and a sound.
You can use the digital assistant to get a hint in the right direction.
You can play a single-player game or with up to 5 friends on one handy.
Nearly every card set can be tried for free before purchasing it.

Ubongo for Nintendo Switch

The digital adaption of the board game Ubongo for Nintendo Switch.

Genre: Puzzle

Platform: Nintendo Switch – exclusive

Artstil: 2D

Engine: Unity 3D

Core Team:

Producer
2 Game Designer
Technical Artist
2 Programmer
3 Artist
Sound and Music Designer

Year: 2019-2020

Duration: 4 month

My Part:

Ubongo-board generation
UI and menus
Controller selection/handling
Music system

Summary:

Puzzle your way across the Baobab Savanna, the Fang River, and the Canyon of Bones, or get the ultimate Ubongo party started! In this fast-paced game, you’ll need to use your wits to solve a puzzle of various shapes as quickly as possible.

Discover four exotic worlds in the Solo Campaign. Take on hundreds of gripping levels in the Baobab Savanna, on the wild Fang River, in the Whispering Jungle, and in the sandy Canyon of Bones. Join a zebra, a crocodile, a gorilla, and a rattlesnake on a journey through their puzzle worlds, challenging you with increasingly tricky puzzles.

Train your spatial thinking and speed on countless other levels in Free Play for endless fun.

Compete against up to three other players in local multiplayer, or start Party mode and collect all kinds of crazy boosters. Hinder your opponents by mixing up their tiles with the tornado, or use the clone booster to copy your moves across all playing spaces. Get a hint from the magic eye, or protect yourself against your opponents’ boosters with the shield. The difficulty level can be adjusted separately for each player.

This is a part of the world map of the solo player campaign.
Multiplayer selection, get ready for a fast passed multiplayer match!
The elephant Tembo is one of the best Ubongo players in the jungle. Collect enough crystals to challenge him.
A single-player board.
A fast passed multiplayer match.

Craftspeople

This is the prototype of an interactive learn-app for children created at the cultural hackathon ‘Coding da Vinci Süd 2019’ (Link).

It transfers the lithographs of the state museum Würtemberg about craftspeople of the 19. century into an app. The goal of the historic pictures was to explain the crafts and there tools to children. The app remains true to this approach and makes it interactable to reach children in the present.

Demo:

Due to the short duration of the hackathon only the craft of the bookbinder is playable.

The app is open source and available on github.

Space Shop VR

Space Shop VR is an multiplayer-VR game for which you just need 1 VR-headset.

Genre: Puzzle

Platform: Lenovo Mirage Solo (VR-headset) – exclusive

Artstil: 3D – comic

Engine: Unity 3D

Team:

Producer
Game Designer
2 Technical Artists
3 Programmers
2 Additional Programmers (Intern)
Character Moddler
Character Rigger
Character Animator

Year: 2018-2019

Duration: 6 month

My Part:

Original Idea
Programming
- Parts of the gameplay
- Procedural generation of alien behavior patterns
Level Design
Lighting

Summary:

Space Shop VR was a contract work for Media Markt at the Media Design Innovation Hub (MD.I Hub) where I was working as a programmer. Media Markt wanted a VR game that is played in a group of several people with just 1 VR-headset but is enjoyable for all players at the same time.

We did a design workshop at the MD.I Hub, where I came up with the idea that we could do a game where one player is the shop keeper in a sci-fi shop and the other players, must help him to translate the pantomime of the alien clients to sell them the correct items.

The clue is, that the VR-player has to imitate the pantomime of the aliens so the other players can translate it with the help of a handbook. So the handbook players can look at there friend doing quiet silly pantomime and solve the riddle of the translation. While they are solving the translation puzzle the VR-player is interacting with cute aliens and an amazing sci-fi world.

It is essential to the game that the VR player can’t memorize the translation rules and skip the communication with the other players. Because of this fact, we decided to procedurally generate all possible behavior patterns that our aliens can perform. This leads to up to a thousand different behaviors that one alien can perform to tell the player that it wants to buy a burger.

The species of this lady is called 'Wobbler' they are communicating through there great passion - beatboxing.
'Blomer' are not the brightest stars in the universe, but their pantomime language is one of the most difficult to learn. Not many aliens are able to stand on one leg, rotate with an arm while boxing in the air with the other one.
The 'Dumpling' is a kind of pet for intelligent aliens and brings you the shopping list of his master.
'Tansid' arguments are often misunderstood as dance battles.
The 'Gordians' are very polite and arrogant aliens. If you answer one of their formal greeting-questions wrong, they will leave immediately.
The 'Ininin' is a kind of collective lifeform that consists of 16 small 'Inis'. They communicate with color changing formations.
The 'Quaxlers' have a very agile language, where they are doing different poses and facial expressions. 'Quaxler' conversations are highly appreciated as yoga exercises in the rest of the galaxy.
'Tentits' are a deep sea life form and communicate with the help of colorful slime, which they spit on your counter.
It is in the nature of the 'Nihilans' to deny everything including there own existence. They will not tell you, what they want, but everything they not want. They communicate with a flash of there glowing antennas and a blink of their 3 eyes.
The 'Bigbons' have evolved quiet a bit different than other aliens. They can't see or hear you and they have no hands. Even so, they are highly intelligent carnivores that communicate through telepathy.
The 'Bigbon' is often forced to move the mind of his conversational partner in his own mind, so he can show them what he means. He does this with the help of some strangely shaped objects.

Vices

– What Remains of Edith Finch meets 13 Reasons Why. –

Vices is the prototype of a story focused adventure for desktop.

Genre: Adventure with focus on the story

Platform: PC

Artstil: 2D paper look

Engine: Unity 3D, Articy

Team:

2 Coder
(1 Artist)*

*Becase our artist was indisposed, we took a lot of free art from the web and adapted it (2D graphics, 3d models, animations, etc.). I wrote a crumbled-paper-texture generator to make it easier for us to let the assets look like they belong together.

Jear: 2017

Duration: 6 weeks

Experience: 6. semester

Summary:

Vices is the playable biography of Sally Blake, a young woman that sees no way out. While Sally is in hover between life and death her family tries to understand the reasons for her actions. The player will re-experience Sally’s suffering in the shape of 5 fairy tales that Sally wrote down as part of her psychotherapy. The aim of the gameplay is to support the story and give the player the chance to put oneself in Sally’s position and to experience the feeling of catharsis.

Sally's family is waiting in front of the emergency room for news from the doctor. Will she survive?
Sally's diary with the tales of her suffering.
Princess Sally is playing hide and seek with her twin sister at the castle ground.
Sally is eavesdropping a conversation between her parents and the death.
The death has sent his servants to capture and kill Sally and her twin sister.
Sally is dancing in the sunset after a wonderful evening with her family.
Little princess Sally is not in the mood for studying and is trying to sneak away!

Aeronauts

Aeronauts is the prototype of a settler like strategy game for mobile.

Genre: Realtime strategie

Platform: Android

Artstil: Comic 2D isometric

Engine: Unity 3D

Team:

Producer
Game Designer
Level Designer
2 Coder
4 Artist
1 Composer

Year: 2016

Duration: 8 weeks

Experience: 4. semester

Summary:

You are playing the crew of an airship that crashed on a flying island.

Now it’s up to you to help the crew to survive on this in hostile islands and to explore the surrounding islands to collect enough resources to build a new airship and flee! But be aware, the islands are inhabited and guarded by great anthropophagous bugs. No aeronaut that was brave enough to enter the island of the bug queen “Silva, Misstress of Bones” was ever seen again. Nobody would choose to visit this island if the bug shields were not an important part of the new airship.

Part of a green island.
Building menu.
A detailed menu of a tree.
Combat menu.
The zodiac lock in the lobby.
Visiting a snow island by airbaloon.
This is the island of the end boss "Silva Mistress of Bones". She is named after our animator.
This is an dungeon island that you can visit with an airbaloon to collect resources.

Demolition Disaster

Demolition disaster is a fast-paced local multiplayer battle arena.

Genre: Lokale Multiplayer Battle-Arena

Platform: Windows

Artstil: 3D Comic

Engine: Unity 3D

Team:

3 Coder
6 Artist

Year: 2016

Duration: 6 Wochen

Experience: 3. Semester, Projektphase

Download from IndiDB:

http://www.indiedb.com/games/demolition-disaster

Summary:

In Demolition Disaster can fight up to 4 players in an post-apocalyptic arena. You can choose between 4 unique characters and fight explosive 4-minute fights. A death is not tragic, you will instantly respawn and continue the fight! You can shield-dash your opponents and shoot hovercraft projectiles right bevor you finish them off with your ultimate.

In-Game Screenshot des Spieles. — In-Game Screenshot of a fight. Your match will be displayed as splitt-screen.

Mother Earth

Mother Earth is a puzzle-game and an interactive story.

Genre: Puzzle adventure

Platform: Android (Google Play Store)

Artstil: 2D – low poly

Engine: Unity 3D

Team:

Producer/Animator
Game Designer/ Artist
2 Coder
2 Artists
1 Composer

Year: 2015

Duration: 5 weeks

Experience: 2. semester

Summary:

Help your earth to develop from a lifeless rock to a blooming, green planet. Construct the moon and the stars. Watch the eruptions of great vulcanos and create oceans! Witness the first living creatures on your planet, but be aware, not everything is as peaceful as it seems. Explore your wonderful planet and discover interactive puzzles.