JACK H. PILZ

Over the years I've worked on a lot of small projects for university or game jams or just because I want to. They're not all good, but they've all been valuable in their own way. You can see most of them in more details on my old portfolio/blog.

Two major parts of an English early learning ecosystem. Classroom allows teachers from all around the world to effectively teach entire courses in English, regardless of their own English proficiency. World then allows their students to continue engaging with their learning content at home in a fun, vibrant, and interactive environment.

Kindergo 2.0 is a near complete technical reconstruction of Like A Photon Creative's legacy project: Kindergo. Kindergo is an interactive book library that offers classroom quality, interactive picture books and kids learning games in an immersive education world. Kindergo 2.0 is that, but with far more robust and flexible systems for improving and expanding the game.

A prototype I smashed together in ~2.5 days to pitch a new WarioWare inspired minigame for RoyalABC World. The intent was to have older students engage with the curriculum by interpreting the meaining of words in specific contexts, not just by assosciating a single word with an image. While a whole suite of additional microgrames were designed, unfortunately production was never completed and the game is not available to the public.

A business espionage game full of hidden identities and suspicious briefcases. Deceive your opponents and acquire your target with up to 8 players online; just hope that's not gun in their pocket...

(Currently still in development.)

Two players find themselves trapped in ancient ruins after discovering a rare and priceless artifact. Both of you want to be the one to escape ruins with the artifact, but you don’t necessarily have enough equipment to do it on your own. Will both of you work together to try and solve the perilous puzzles that stand in your path? Or will you forsake each other to try and keep the treasure for yourselves? There’s only one way to find out…

Now also available on Nintendo Switch!

An incremental game about managing a demonic cult. Convert unsuspecting victims into devout cultists, then sacrifice them and offer their blood (and other assorted viscera) to summon an infernal demon! Just make sure you pick the right one to optimise your cult's economy...

(Currently still in development.)

A mobile match-3/city building game, created as a tie-in for the animated film series Tales From Sanctuary City. Collect resources by clearing quests for your citizens, then use those resources to build bigger and better houses for new adorable citizens to move into!

I run a couple of tabletop RPG campaigns for the game Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy. Unfortunately, this game doesn't have any sort of companion app for character sheets. So I made one. It's still a bit rough around the edges, but I've got big plans for version 2.0 actively implementing all of the games content and rules dynamically, instead of just acting mostly as a digital sheet of paper.

(Currently still in development.)

Wrong Turn At Fleebux 9 is a VR showcase/experiment in creating different and interesting ways for a player to interact with the world using their hands and a Leap Motion.

Arms Race puts two players in the shoes of rival diplomats – one from Russia, the other: America – and pits them against each other in a diplomatic battle of focus and determination. When only one of them can walk away victorious from this frantic political free-for-all, who will reign supreme?

Emakimono is an infinite runner (or flier, more so) that has you take control of a small, paper swallow, desperately fleeing from the collapse of its world – a collapse triggered by its own desire of a simple ribbon. Gracefully guide the swallow to glide above and swoop beneath the countless obstacles that stand in its way, and soar as far as you can!

Four explorers find themselves dragged across the universe to a mysterious and unknown planet. Their only guide (and the reason they’ve ended up here) is a cute and friendly robot named E.H.U. The four players must work together to navigate this strange new world, and its many puzzles and mysteries. Maybe then they’ll be able to find their way back home once more.

Winner of SAE Qantm's Creative Achievement Award 2017

Over the years I've worked on a lot of small projects for university or game jams or just because I want to. They're not all good, but they've all been valuable in their own way. You can see most of them in more details on my old portfolio/blog.