Set out on a Tiny Adventure!

A happy couple finds their egg stolen by a T-Ruckus! You play as one of the dino-parents trying to chase the thief through a magical realm. 

This might be one of the smallest RPG games you’ll ever play! After choosing your hero in the tiny character creator you will pick your path through perilous lands. Level up and learn new moves to defeat your foes and gather treasure. It will come in handy once you find the tiny evil end-boss T-Ruckus.  

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Development

TinyRPG was created in Pico-8, a retro game-engine that uses the LUA coding language. It is Emiel’s second game in Pico-8 after having created Hope Squadron a year earlier.

Emiel’s goal with the project was to create a proto-type so he could find out what the appeal (or lack-) of the game is. The project will be re-created for release on different platforms due to the positive response.

Play now on itch.io!

Right in your browser, or as a download localy on your machine. Let Emiel know what you think of TinyRPG by tweeting @Prrrpl or send a line to emiel [at] prrr [dot] pl

This game was made as an artistic expression for meditation-games.com. Please check out their daily game-publications. 

What if you could play a new very small, unique game every day? That’s what Rami Ismail of Vlambeer thought when he was enchanted by a small game. As a result he set up ‘Meditation Games’ for which he invited 365 game-designers to create a small game in 6 hours.

When Rami asked me to participate, I was honored and delighted. Each developer could choose a day upon which they wanted their game to be released. I chose February 22nd, the day after my birthday. Each game comes with a small note from the developer, sharing more information about the game and it’s relation to the day of its release.

It was the first time I made a game as a personal artistic expression. I loved focussing on the player-experience and the impression I wanted to have with my meditation game. And like everything one does for the first time, this felt a bit scary and challenging. I was really happy when players, friends and other people from the industry let me know it really hit home for them.

Development

This meditation was created in Unity 2019 and C# in approximately 8 hours.

Emiel’s goal with the project was to convey his own existential thoughts as an experience for others.

Play now on itch.io!

You can download and play the game through the link below. Let Emiel know what you think of it by tweeting @Prrrpl or send a line to emiel [at] prrr [dot] pl

An innocent exploration game

Still Here is an innocent exploration game for iOS and Android, released worldwide in March 2018.

The game was born from ‘Pipworld‘ an iteration of a worldbuilding project by Emiel’s Utrecht University of Arts (HKU) former classmate David Smit.

After creating Should Shoot, Emiel started exploring different monetisation strategies like free to play in his new prototypes. When David and Emiel met in Berlin , they decided to have 2-weekly meetings over Skype to share ideas and progress on their projects.

Ready for a new learning experience, Emiel decided to learn how to use Unity and C# to create his next game. During this proces Emiel got more and more involved with Pipworld, which slowly evolved into ‘Still Here’. Emiel was eventually responsible for game,- and level-design, developing an extra competative mode and building tools to create levels.  He was also responsible for marketing and promotion of the game outside of the China territories. 

Still here is was met with a lot of positive reactions upon it’s release as outlined by a wonderful mention on TouchArcade. It was featured by Apple as ‘New Game we Love’ and users scored it a 4/5 stars. It has been received even better on Android where it gathered 4.6 stars from user reviews and alot of positive feedback.

To learn more about the game and it’s development please visit the blog or the official website.

Adorable Co-op Shmup!

Hope Squadron was made by me in 2 weeks on my 2017-2018 holiday break. It’s my first project in Pico-8 using the LUA language. It’s a local multiplayer Shoot’m Up with a touching narrative.

 

As a child I loved Shoot ‘m ups like Major Stryke, Raptor, R-Type and Gradius. I’ve always wanted to make a Shmup. I also thought: why not make one that you can play with a friend?

The protagonist of the game is a little girl who has one wish: to see her mother recover from a strange illness. Since doctor’s don’t know how to cure mom, the little girl uses her super secret hide-out and a shrink ray provided by Dr. Teddy to take out her mother’s invaders herself.

The inspiration for this project also came from a seminar I organized at the Utrecht University of Arts where the assignment was for students to make a game within 2 weeks and self-publish it on Itch.io. I wanted to see if I could do it myself and as soon as I had time started on this project.

Two players: one screen

Should Shoot is a competitive ‘two-players-on-one-screen’ game for mobile devices. It’s released on iOS 29th of januari in the BENELUX and will be released internationally on 24th of February 2016. It will come to Android devices sometime in 2016.

In Should Shoot: your character IS your finger, where the player taps on the screen is where its character is in the game world. There are different game modes. All of them obviously, involve player’s having to shoot something: each other (Vs. Simple Mode), a rocket (Vs. Rocket Mode) or a ball (Vs. Ball). Player’s aim their shot by pulling back their finger, opposite of where they want to shoot. Releasing your finger from the screen fires a shot. The feeling of control and accuracy allow fierce battles to take place! The single-player modes also have a competitive vibe: it mainly involves shooting either rockets (1P Rocket Mode) or balls (1P Ball Mode).

As a fan of (local) multiplayer games, I often wondered why there is nothing on a mobile phone that fuels the competitive spirit like the games we play on consoles. Most people around us carry a mobile device around with more horsepower then those that housed the games that gave us bragging rights as a teenage gamer. With Should Shoot, my mission was to create a game that allows people to compete and thus: scream, yell, laugh and smirk whenever they feel the impact of winning or losing.

     

Should Shoot is available for download in the BENELUX! For updates and more information about Should Shoot and it’s release on other platforms, follow: @Prrrpl on twitter and/or like facebook.com/prrrpl.