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Mercury Gilbert
LAUNCH!
Launch! is a 2.5D endless platformer developed for mobile. The player must use their cannon to shoot themselves to higher platforms and climb up and out of the mineshaft. However, time is an important factor as a swelling tide of lava is rising from beneath them!
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Launch! challenges the player's precision, quick thinking, and reflex skills in an intense escape experience.
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DEVELOPING FOR MOBILE
I created Launch! over the course of 11 weeks as my project for a mobile game design class at LCV. I had a lot of fun learning to develop for a platform other than PC, and it was a great challenge to develop and ship a game on my own in such a short time.
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From creating Launch!, I learned the ins and outs of publishing for mobile, including: using analytics tools such as App Annie to find the optimal genre of game to make, running Live Ops, and integrating google play into a Unity project.
PLAYER RETENTION
Endless games can get old and repetitive quickly, so a challenge we had in this course was to include features that would keep players returning to the game to accomplish some long term goals.
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For this, I included an in-game shop where the player can use soft currency (earned by playing the game) to purchase cosmetics for their cannon.
CHECK IT OUT!
If you want to check out Launch!, it is available for free on the Google Play Store!
LAUNCH!
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