Island Bender

Island Bender is a physics-based couch-fighting earthbending game with up to 6 players. Throw rocks at each other, collect power-ups and master your bending style to beat your opponents.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEH-bcE7oGA

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Development

General Information

Personal Project 2020 - PRESENT

Platforms: WebGL, Itch.io

Assets: Art by Sima and Anh-Thu Sound/Music by Florian

Tools: Unity, C#, Notion, Miro, Rider, GitHub, GitKraken

Team

Sima Spielmann - Art

Anh-Thu Nguyen - Art

Florian Simon - Sound&Music

Inês Reis - PR

Felix Voigtländer (me) - Development & Design

General Tasks

• Gameplay: Concept, Prototyping, Testing, and further iteration. (See: Gameplay)
• UI: Using feedback from playtests the UI design has been iterated multiple times throughout development. DoTween is used for animation and to save on performance.
• Automation: Using GameCI for deployment to Steam,
• Polish: Be it saving settings, improving animations, adding SFX/VFX, Refactoring, etc.
• Coordination:
  • Giving out tasks, maintaining the Kanban boards, removing unnecessary tasks
  • Follow work packages from concepts to final implementations into the game
  • Game tests
• Marketing: Island Bender features a GIF-Recording tool, that saves the last kill as a gif. This and additional content is uploaded to social media such as Reddit, Tiktok, Twitter,…
• Exhibitions
  • Preparing merch such as Post Cards, Rollout Posters, etc.
  • Setting up the booth. (Feel free to check out Island Bender at GC23 Hall 10.2)