Published Games and Projects
Pet Monsters
2016, Rovio / SideKick Games
Android, iOS
Server Lead, Additional Programming
Midcore mobile action game – a westernized adaptation of the popular Monster Strike.
Developed multiplayer and server features such as clans, leader boards, gifting and raids. Additionally supported client development on various systems integration, performance optimizations and bug fixes.
Check it out:
Google Play
App Store
YouTube Video
Globo
2016, Globo Kids Games / SideKick Games
PC, Android, iOS
Tech Lead
Globo is an Israeli virtual world (MMO) for kids. The game features avatar customization, chat rooms, quests, mini-games, customizable rooms and more.
Lead the client development, oversaw server development and supported the art-tech pipeline.
Check it out:
Official Site
YouTube Video
Virtual Reality Rides
2015, Astral Vision
Android, GearVR
Tech Lead
Astral Vision is a start up aiming to bring VR to real world amusement park rides. I’ve worked with an algorithms team to create the initial proof of concept, and later to push it into development and turn it into a product.
Check it out:
Overview Video
Other VR Experiments
Age of Diamonds
2015, SideKick Games
Android, GearVR, Google Cardboard, MergeVR
Lead Developer
A VR interpretation of the classic breakout formula. Developed for any mobile VR platform you can think of (and some you probably never heard of before!)
Check it out:
Google Cardboard Version
YouTube Video
Romans From Mars VR
2015, SideKick Games
Android, GearVR, Google Cardboard, MergeVR
Lead Developer
Launch title for the GearVR. This is a VR adaptation of “Romans From Mars” and one of my first experiences with VR development.
Check it out:
Google Cardboard Version
YouTube Video
Warrior Wave
2015, Intel / SideKick Games
PC, Intel RealSense
Additional Programming
Warrior wave is a puzzle game for Intel’s RealSense camera.
I worked mostly on optimization, bug fixes and creating multiple “kiosk” versions of the game for showroom demos and store demos.
Check it out:
Download Page
YouTube Video in Czech!
Agro
2014, DeNA / SideKick Games
Android, iOS
Additional Programming
Agro is a cool mash up of Peggle with RPG elements. Sadly it never made it out of soft launch, and it is no longer available publicly.
You can still check out this short video though.
Jungle Jumper
2013, SideKick Games
PC, Mac, LEAP Motion
Developer
An action platformer game using the LEAP motion controller. Not being a Mac user, this project taught me first hand the pains of developing games for Mac.
Check it out:
Download Page
YouTube Video
Kizi Run!
2013, Funtomic / SideKick Games
Android, iOS
Lead Developer
A level based runner game. This game too is no longer available.
You can check out some videos of it though!
Romans From Mars
2013, SideKick Games
Android, iOS
Lead Developer
A mobile castle defense game. Developed most of the core game systems and gameplay – it was a pretty exciting and interesting learning experience. The most complex single problem here was developing a pathfinding solution with dynamic avoidance for agents with varying clearance size. Other cool features include scriptable enemy behaviors and AI director which handles level generation and progression (although not in the most elegant manner – learning experience as I mentioned!)
Check it out:
Google Play
App Store
Dr. Jolt
2013, SideKick Games
Android, iOS, Windows 8
Additional Programming
Dr. Jolt is a mobile puzzle game developed by SideKick Games.
I ported the game to Windows 8 and the Microsoft Store.
Check it out:
Microsoft Store
Google Play
App Store
Top Smash Tennis
2013, XTR3D, SideKick Games
Windows 8
Integration & Additional Programming
Top Smash Tennis is a motion controlled tennis game for devices running Windows 8. Using XTR3Ds solution which provides skeletal tracking using normal 2D cameras, the game is playable on any compatible PC with just a regular webcam.
I supported the integration of the tracking middleware and the addition of Windows 8 features.
Check it out:
CES2013 Demo
Super Collapse II For Smart TVs
2012, TransGaming
Multiple Smart TV OSes
Developer
This project involved writing from scratch the game using JavaScript and a subset of HTML5 for the game to run on TransGaming’s platform which is delivered to multiple SmartTV OSes.
The only reference was a functional design document and the C source files from an older set top box version of the game 🙂
Global Game Jam
LD38 – Crumble Crust
A difficult game for the sake of being difficult with the theme of “Small World”.
Amazing art by Oded Bengigi, awesome design by Hen Matshulski, music by the talented Alon Kaplan and production work by Tzahi Wolkowicz
Check it out:
LD38 Entry
GGJ16 – Late To Work Simulator 2016
A “Twitch Plays” experience. LTWS16 is a collection of mini games controlled by Twitch chat.
The most important thing we learned with this project was that Twitch has insane latency even under the most optimal settings, making reflex based gameplay pretty useless. The only scenario in which this type of gameplay is possible is when there are so many players and inputs that it is not possible to make a connection between the input and the result action thus masking the latency.
Check it out:
GGJ Entry
GGJ15 – Voices In My Head
A democratic rogue-like dungeon crawler. Multiple players control the same character by voting on actions. This game was developed while both me and Elad were sick and with fever during the entire duration of the game jam. In the end, we managed to run a session with tens of concurrent players and surprisingly everything worked!
Check it out:
GGJ Entry