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Client: Ownit Games

Date: October 2022 - April 2023

Duration: 74 man-days

In this turn-based trading card game prototype, players engage in battles using weapons, armor, and various gadgets to upgrade their robots. This allowed playtesting various mechanics, fine-tune game balance, and ultimately assemble a comprehensive base card set. In addition, we designed a visual experience for the opening of booster packs, imitating the use of NFTs and cryptocurrency.

Cartes

Client: Yale University - Department of Mathematics

Date: September 2016

Duration: 35 man-days

This prototype, based on an idea of our client, is designed for use in a class setting and reinforces basic knowledge of math functions for incoming undergraduate students at Yale. In an artillery-style game, two people battle each other using function graphs. First, both players place traps on a grid. Second, they take turns to combine playing cards and form a function. Then they unleash it to destroy the other player’s traps.

Famine Ties

Client: Quinnipiac University's Irish Great Hunger Museum

Date: Jan - July 2016

Duration: 13 man-days

This game prototype about the hardships of the Irish Great Hunger resulted from a brainstorm session organized by PreviewLabs, and was developed collaboratively with Quinnipiac University students. In the game, the player takes turns feeding a child living in 1845 and their present-day descendant. Both characters are dealt cards with food items and cures that were present during the famine.

Incarnate prototype

Client: Skeleton Hand

Date: March 2014

Duration: 19 man-days

A tactical strategy board game combined with a competitive card game including characters with battlefield augmentation abilities. Prototyped in two iterations, the prototype included 12 out of the concept’s 100+ unique cards, a dynamic music creation system, and was used by our client for pitching at the Game Developers Conference.

The Device prototype

Client: Dwarven Designs

Date: June 2013

Duration: 38 man-days

Prototype for a dungeon based, up to 9 players co-op multiplayer RPG where any player can create a dungeon as a challenge for the other players.

Card based puzzle game

Client: Cartamundi

Date: November 2012

Duration: 17 man-days

Brainstorm, concept and prototyping for a game in which printed playing cards can be used on the iPad’s screen to introduce animals into the game world and solve puzzles.