Shift Happens is a project close to my heart and the reason we founded our own game dev studio called Klonk Games. It's a co-op platformer, which was prototyped during our time at university. After a successful grant application and Steam Greenlight campaign, the game became our debut title for PC, Playstation 4, Xbox One and later on the Nintendo Switch.
It was nominated for and won multiple awards including the Deutscher Computerspielepreis (German Video Game Awards) in the categories Best Game Design and Best Kid's Game.
My responsibilities included early visual development and stylistic exploration, the designing and creation of modular level assets and unique environment pieces and artistic supervision of the light and color schemes. Proper integration of the assets into Unity, lighting and light baking and overall artistic quality control were also part of my daily tasks as well as coordinating with the other departments.
Showing off the game at expos, planning and building our booths, networking with other devs and publishers and seeing players enjoying our game was one of the most fun and rewarding parts of my time working on Shift Happens.