Games
Musical Mosquitos
My music-based mini game series for kids recently got funded by the initiative “Ein Netz für Kinder” and I´m happy to have gathered a badass team to work with me on the project.
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Voodoo Playtesting
On 24, Feb 2013 | No Comments | In Blog, Games | By KaTi
Opting for some inappropriate moves? Our T-t-touch Me – interface was a super success at last weeks playtesting session. The wiring is a very rough prototype so unfortunately the current flow was unreliable. But what first seemed an annoying bug, surprisingly turned out a boost of interaction and engagement.
Voodoo – Break The Spell
On 22, Feb 2013 | No Comments | In Blog, Games | By KaTi
Having organized the annual Global Game Jam at the Cologne Game Lab for the past three years, I finally broke the spell and managed to participate in the fourth and recent jam for the very first time.
Maya – The Magic Chocolate
On 05, Dec 2012 | No Comments | In Blog, Games | By KaTi
Maya – The Magic Chocolate is an advanced memory game for families and kids age 4+. Your mission is to hide and recollect as many cocoa beans without being caught by infamous Montezuma´s guards. But beware of the bitter and rotten beans – those will keep you from confecting your own magic chocolate.
The game is a handcrafted paper prototype which was originally intended to be played with real cocoa beans and a “cook your own chocolate”-reward session as an extension to the game experience.
Liebeskind – An Interactive Story
On 15, Jul 2012 | No Comments | In Blog, Games | By KaTi
The summer term ended with a real blast, as game designer and academic Eric Zimmerman attended our final presentations and gave feedback to our concepts and prototypes from the “Frankenstein-Adaptation Project”.
“drop (jump and run game)
On 18, Jan 2012 | 6 Comments | In Blog, Games | By KaTi
DOWNLOAD my first (public) videogame “drop here:
PC Windows dropgamepc.zip
MAC OSX dropgamemac.zip
Hi everyone and thanks for downloading, playing and commenting my first digital game “drop.
The game is part of the Rapid Fire Prototyping Project at the Cologne Game Lab where I have startet my studies in Game Development and Research 4 months ago.
Juggeling with minimal flash coding experience and being bound to a very little time frame I decided to realize this game with Game Maker for MAC, where you can work with a mix of drag&drop and code snippets. I startet out with focussing on the basic gameplay elements and then added the different assets, design and music elements in various iterations.
The lovely music was composed by my dear friend Julia Klomfass.
Tools: Game Maker for Mac (Fullversion), Photoshop CS4, Logic 7
Development Time: approx. 24 hours
“drop (Jump&Run Prototyp)
Tools: Game Maker for Mac (Fullversion), Photoshop CS4
Entwicklungszeit: ca. 20 Stunden
Hier ist mein zweites Minigame, das Jump&Run basierte “drop, dass ich Rahmen meines Studiums im Rapid Fire Prototyping Projekt am Cologne Game Lab entwickelt habe.
Für die Entwicklung habe ich zum ersten Mal mit Game Maker for Mac gearbeitet. In einer Mischung aus Drag&Drop und eigenen Code-Schnipseln konnte ich so innerhalb von 4 Stunden schon das Basis-Gameplay umsetzen. Grafiken, Leveldesign, Menüs und Sounds sind dann in verschiedenen Iterationen dazu gekommen.
Mit Musik von der wunderbaren Julia Klomfass.
Das Spiel ist noch work-in-progress und ich schraube noch an ein paar bugs, freue mich aber schon über Euer Feedback.
Download “dropgame.zip (MAC)
Exposure 3 (action card game)
On 02, Oct 2011 | No Comments | In Blog, Games | By KaTi
EXPOSURE is based on a project which I started working on with Claus Daniel Herrmann, Olga Epikhina, Roman Jungblut und Maren Keitel in my first semester at the Cologne Game Lab.
The game is based on lightpainting, so in addition to the cards players will need a DSLR photo camera with manual exposure, LED lights or other fancy light sources.
Playable in 2 teams with 2 players each. In- and outdoor.
Stopover Lisboa (Adventure Game Konzept)
On 26, Nov 2010 | One Comment | In Blog, Games | By KaTi
“Stopover Lisboa“ ist der Arbeitstitel für ein City-Adventure-Game, dass den Spieler in einer mystischen Jagd durch die Straßen des heutigen Lissabon führt. Die erste Idee zum Projekt entstand im Rahmen des Weiterbildungs-Programms “Mobile Animation Content” an der ifs.
“Stopover Lisboa” ist meine erste nicht-lineare Geschichte, deshalb will ich hier erst einmal meine Möglichkeiten im Zusammenspiel von Storytelling, Spielmechanik und Ästhetik ausprobieren, bevor ich mich auf eine Plattform festlege.
Erste Stil- und Charakter-Entwürfe entstanden in Zusammenarbeit mit Ulla Schmidt
Hi, I´m Katharina.
I am a researcher and designer for interactive media based in Cologne / Germany. [learn more]