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Los Aliens

A space puzzler: recruit alien crewmates with special powers to beat move-limited levels before the fuel runs out.

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You recruit a crew of aliens, each with a special ability, and use them to solve move- and time-limited levels while you manage your fuel. There are 170 handcrafted levels, 6 aliens and 18 kinds of pads and creatures, with saves that follow you across devices.

My role

Solo developerSolo developer: built the whole game end to end

Team

Shadow Masters · 2014 — 2016

Platforms

  • iOS
  • Android
  • Windows

Stack

  • Unity
  • C#

Solo developer

What I did

  1. 01UI/UX programming across the game.
  2. 02Integrated the third-party libraries and plugins: in-app purchases, analytics, Facebook.
  3. 03A client/server layer for remote settings, in-app purchases and ads.
  4. 04Debugging and optimisation.
  5. 05Ported the game to Windows 8.1/10 PC and Windows Phone 8.1, and published it on the Microsoft Store.

What stands out

  1. 01170 handcrafted levels and cross-device saves.
  2. 02Free to play, with in-app purchases.
  3. 03Full painted key art: alien-crew cockpit splash screen, mascot app icon, and wordmark logo
  4. 04Broad resolution coverage for splash screens (7 device sizes from 640x960 to 1536x2048)
  5. 05Separately ported/maintained Windows Phone and Windows Store builds of the project.

See it in action

Los Aliens · Game Troopers (publisher)
Los Aliens screenshot 1
Los Aliens screenshot 2
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Los Aliens for Windows screenshot 1
Los Aliens for Windows screenshot 2
Los Aliens for Windows screenshot 3
Los Aliens app icon of a one-eyed green alien in a spacesuit helmet
App icon
Painted key art of the alien crew sitting in their spaceship cockpit looking out at a moon
Main menu key art
Los Aliens game logo wordmark with a UFO
Logo
Minimalist low-poly planet splash screen graphic
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