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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.

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Teacup

Smarto Club • 2020 – 2021 • Lead Producer, Main Programmer

Teacup is a short and wholesome narrative adventure game with a focus on exploration and non-linear progression. Help a small and shy frog on her journey to find the ingredients she needs for her tea party!
Available now on Switch, Xbox, Playstation, Steam, iOS and Android!

Teacup was Smarto Club’s first game as a team and our first experience releasing a commercial indie game. It was challenging (especially since I was still a full-time student during development!) but thanks to smart planning and a minimal scope we managed to create a game we’re proud of and that players enjoyed.

As the lead producer of the team:

• I was responsible for studio administration, which included consulting with a lawyer and accountant to legally form our studio.
• I handled pitching and signing the game with publisher Whitethorn Games.
• I was in charge of coordinating the team and communicating with our publisher, planning milestones and keeping track of tasks, besides searching for and hiring contractors.
• While we initially used Codecks for task management, I advocated for a change to simpler, to-do list based application to improve team effectiveness.
• I was responsible for handling the Smarto Club Twitter account and coordinating our participation in a variety of virtual events such as LudoNarraCon, The Big Adventure Event and Wholesome Direct.

As the game’s main programmer:

• I was in charge of programming the game’s main systems, such as movement, dialogue and quest scripting.
• I used Construct 3 to develop the prototype used to pitch to publishers, and then handled migrating the game to the Unity engine.
• I worked alongside the publisher’s porting team to ensure the game worked smoothly on all platforms.

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a fragile reminiscence

2019 • Main Developer

a fragile reminiscence is a first person alternative controller puzzle game about exploring the labyrinth of a dying patient’s mind to recover a precious memory.

It was my first attempt at an alternative game, and was developed for alt.ctrl.GDC 2020. It ultimately wasn’t selected, but I’m looking forward to trying again some year!

As the main developer I:

• Developed a custom 3D engine inside Construct 3 using the Javascript scripting feature
• Designed, programed and soldered a custom alternative controller using components such as an Arduino Nano, a Neopixel LED Ring, and the BT05 Bluetooth Module
• Used a Aeon VEGA10 Laser Cutting Machine to create the enclosure for the controller
• Programmed 2-way communication between the game and the controller via a Bluetooth module and the Web Bluetooth API
• Prototyped and designed a simple level inspired by the puzzles in games like The Witness

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Dreams and Reality

2015 – 2016 • Main Developer

Dreams and Reality is a short and personal hand drawn platformer about climbing your dreams. Play it on Newgrounds. Listen to the soundtrack on Youtube or Bandcamp.

Dreams and Reality was developed between 2015 and 2016, my senior year at high school and my first year at college. It was a project born from my frustration after having failed at developing a bigger and more ambitious game. I wanted to make something small, but as polished as possible, and am super happy with the results!

As the main developer I:

• Prototyped and designed the entire level and narrative
• Created hand drawn art for the game using charcoal and watercolor pencils, which was later scanned and cleaned up digitally
• Programmed the game’s mechanics and events in the Construct 2 engine
• Worked with a remote composer for the game’s soundtrack and SFX under revenue share
• Handled marketing for the game’s release and later licensing to web game portals