Weekly Game Prototypes
Welcome to my weekly prototype project. Each week, based on a given theme, I started by asking what kind of experience I wanted to deliver to players — and what mechanic and art direction would create it.
Then: sketches, prototyping, playtesting, yelling, and iterating. Glad I survived and made 13 games I genuinely like. It's exhilarating to build a game every week :)
Rotate the water to save the cat and the fish — keep each of them in its own safe zone.
After story: playtesters loved it, so I kept going — it became a worldwide Apple-featured mobile game, Spin Cycle. All the best things start with a prototype.
A game about doing two things at once: control Robin Hood as he runs from the pursuing Sheriff, while solving color puzzles to earn special powers.
Solving a barely-visible maze built from near-identical colors — a deliberate compromise between hard-but-comfortable and easy-to-see-but-glaring.
A multiplayer game about keeping all players in the correct order. A cooperation game heavy on verbal communication — and, of course, tons of chaos and fun.
Explore the environment to discover the outline of a hidden shape. Once you know the boundaries, you have to find the one disfigured part.
A "toy" rather than a game — play the keyboard to generate unique, hypnotic patterns of color and shape.
A game about following the rules — but being brave enough to break them can take you further, and give you an abnormal life.
Control the size of a moving ball: keep it on the white to speed up, and avoid the colored walls that slow you down.
An honor duel between two players. Agree on a countdown, then try to shoot first once it ends — fire too early and you're dishonorable, and you lose.
Using a single button, change the sequence of colors to match the raindrops falling toward you. Precise control only — no mistakes allowed.
Push your opponent off the stage through clever movement and positioning. Each player constantly rotates; every quadrant pushes with a different strength — the darker the tone, the stronger the shove.
An abstract take on my experience filing taxes in the US: match subtly different tones to the correct boxes while trying to eat junk food and entertain yourself.
In another world, the rules of life are different — traditionally dangerous things are harmless now, and harmless things can suddenly kill you.
13 weeks. 13 games. One very tired, very happy designer.