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Bubblegum Galaxy

Smarto Club • 2022 – 2025 • Lead Producer, Game Designer

Bubblegum Galaxy is a cute building strategy game about rebuilding the galaxy tile by tile. Discover and design new planets, complete missions, explore your office and befriend your co-workers… all while trying to find out who deleted the galaxy!

After developing our first game Teacup, our goal was to develop a casual building game in the vein of ISLANDERS and Dorfromantik with a narrative twist.

As the lead producer of the team:

• I was in charge of coordinating the team, planning the game and securing funding for full development of the game.
• To better facilitate bests practices and collaboration, I migrated our team to Notion, developed progress dashboards and built a list of milestones for the full project.
• I applied the game for multiple government grants and pitched the project to both publishers and platform holders, ultimately securing 5x the funding we had for developing our first game.

As the team’s game designer:

• I was tasked with designing innovative mechanics for the game while figuring out how to balance the narrative elements of the game with the building elements.
• To achieve this, I began by studying and playing many hours of over a dozen games similar to ours while investigating games that integrated narrative in new ways.
• I developed and playtested paper and later digital prototypes in the Unity engine with both other developers and target audience players.
• In 2023, we released our first public demo on Steam to a very positive response, with around four thousand players trying and praising the demo, and with an average playtime of 50 minutes.