Darin Hilton Art and Design

FIREBASE MECHA HAMSTER

MECHA HAMSTER

concepts and Game design, 3d modeling, animation, UX design and project management

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I felt a hamster ball would be the perfect vehicle for our space hero Hammy.

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Hammy the hamster, the hero of the game.

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Concepts of the ball with Hammy for scale. The original intent was to be able to see him climb into the ball via cutscenes.

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environment designs, its basically a maze but I wanted to hide this as much as possible given the constraints of mobile.

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Floating islands became a way to limit having to render a large environment.

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Some early tile designs

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The beetle boss. The original intent was to have 'boss battles to provide a challenge before progressing in the game.

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Additional story and gameplay ideas. These haven't made it into the game

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The AI core which becomes damaged and sets Hammy off on his adventure.

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Some early explorations of the story which would be told via animated 'cards' Here the core is hit by a 'zootonium' shower.

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Another boss concept

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Some of the final tile pieces from the game, some of these have not made it in due to time and budget.

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UX flow for the game UI

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3d concept render of what we hoped the final game might look like

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Another 3d concept render

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MechaHamster (2017)

In the depths of space on top secret space station a crazed scientist is genetically engineering hamster super soldiers. When a freak Zootonium shower frys the circuits of the stations security system, turning it on the inhabitants, it's up to Major Hammy 'D' Hamster to save the day in his high tech hamster ball.

MechaHamster is a cross platform (iOS and Android) mobile game built to showcase the Firebase Unity SDKs, a small team consisting of myself and one engineer built the game using my original art and design. I felt the rolling ball mechanic from old wooden labyrinth games would be perfect for a mobile game - utilizing the accelerometer to guide the ball around.

I was also the Project manager for MechaHamster guiding the game through each stage of Google's comprehensive launch process, filing bugs and running performance tests. Unfortunately due to time constraints and the size of the team only about a quarter of the content I built and planned game design found its way into the final game.

You can download MechaHamster for free from the Google Play Store and the App Store