Crystallia

Real time strategy game with tower-defense features and an offensive component.

Crystallia was developed for the courses of “Game Design” and “Game Technology” with the focus on design, on a group of 2 to 4 people, can be played by two players on a tablet.

Featured on an academic conference, an international game exhibition and national television, gathering hundreds of play-testing matches. The game high concept is available here.

Details

• Developed with Java and the Android SDK.
• Custom built 2D engine featuring:
  • Frame-based sprite animation.
  • Render layers.
  • 2D Collisions.
  • Asset Management.
  • State Management.
  • Multi-resolution and aspect-ratio support.
  • Custom UI widgets.
• My contributions were:
  • Initial game concept.
  • Game design, concept refinement and design document production.
  • Engine and game programming.
  • Music and sound effects.