Platforms: Android, iOS, FireTV, AppleTV
Tech Stack: C#, Unity
Role: Senior Unity Engineer
Amazon App Store: Ouch! Couch

Ouch! Couch was a 2D runner capitalizing on the popularity of Flappy Bird at the time.  Working in collaboration with an Australian boy band (The Janoskians), I led the development of this game from prototype to launch.

Contributions

• Working closely with our artists and designers, I was able to understand their workflow, and build tools allowing us to iterate rapidly on the prototypes. 
• It was crucial to nail down the physics-based controls.  To that end, I made the input controls tunable so our lead game designer could dial in the “game feel”.  
• The next step was to make a randomized obstacle generator and expose a set of controls that made iterating on the ramping difficulty a fun endeavor.
• I designed and implemented a 2D ragdoll that could be randomly generated from a set of sprite sheets containing character segments.  This significantly cut the time needed to build the various iterations of the characters that would stick to the couch.
• Once we were getting close to launch, my focus pivoted to performance optimization through device profiling, texture atlassing, and object pooling in order to deliver a responsive experience to low-end devices.