Projects

2025

Fishing Friends 3D

Google Play | App Store | Steam (coming soon) | Web (coming soon)

After several years in development, Robot Riot has just released Fishing Friends 3D into soft launch on Android and iOS! It’s the sequel to our long-running success The Fishing Club 3D, which we launched in 2013 and developed into a profitable games-as-a-service title with over 4 million players worldwide and a strong, loyal community.

Fishing Friends 3D builds on everything we’ve learned over the years, transforming that experience into a new game powered by the same “secret sauce” that made its predecessor successful.

We’re currently working on additional fishing locations and multiplayer features, and we’re preparing to bring the game to Steam and make it playable in web browsers.

It’s a huge effort for our small team at Robot Riot—building a new server backend from scratch while reusing as much client code as possible, all developed in Unity 6.

My contributions to Fishing Friends 3D include:

  1. Initial idea and concept
  2. Location design in Unity 6
  3. System design and balancing
  4. Monetization design
  5. Content design (quests, characters, storylines, etc.)
  6. Tool programming in Python and Google Apps Script
  7. Data analysis using Google BigQuery, GameAnalytics, SQL, and Python/Pandas
  8. Live Ops

Straßenfuchs

“Straßenfuchs” is an interactive 3D software developed by Crushed Eyes and used by the Berlin Police Department for traffic education in primary schools.

As the story goes, the traffic teachers realized that their 40-year-old magnetic vehicles and traffic signs no longer stick to modern interactive whiteboards. They wanted a digital solution that incorporates training videos, worksheets, and—most importantly—the ability to create interactive traffic scenes that can be modified in real time. This offers a far better way to simulate real-life traffic situations than the outdated 2D paper-and-blackboard approach.

I designed the entire software with a 3D scene editor at its core. The challenge was to keep the interface as intuitive as possible—both for use on a PC with mouse and keyboard input, and for interaction via touchscreen.

 

2024

Viking Raiders (Google Play | App Store)

We released Viking Raiders on Google Play and the App Store. Viking Raiders is a rogue-like, reverse-bullet-hell-action RPG commissioned by FDG Entertainment and developed by Robot Riot.

I handled the entire game design—concept, level, system, and monetization design—from the initial idea to launch. We had only a few months to develop the MVP in Unity. Instead of building our own server backend, we made extensive use of Firebase Remote Config for everything from storing and deploying levels, characters, items, and shop data, to balancing.

This was the first project where I heavily relied on ChatGPT to speed up scripting my own tools in Python and Google Apps Script, saving me countless days of research and development.

Gamification: DappRadar

DappRadar asked me to help them design and balance Season 2 of their popular Rewards feature (Quests, Airdrops, etc.). Season 2 is now live.

Season 2

Other projects I worked on in 2024:

  • Gamification: I am advising a web3 Fintech start-up on their user engagement and gamification strategy.
  • Preparing the soft-launch for Robot Riot’s new cross-platform free-to-play fishing game “Fishing Friends”.

2023

Quintana Quest

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Having started my career in Game Design by designing and producing Point & Click adventures back in the 90’s, Quintana Quest was quite a back-to-the-roots project for me.  This browser-based Visual Novel/Point & Click Adventure is set in 173 CE, at the frontier of the Roman Empire along the Danube River in Bavaria.

Commissioned by the Museum Quintana in Künzing, “Quintana Quest” was developed by crushed eyes media. Game art was created by Sasanpix.

My role involved developing the game’s concept and narrative, turning the archaeologists’ input into a storyline that brings historical characters, events, and places to life.

The game is designed for use in secondary school history curriculums, offering a new way for students to engage with history.

As a history nerd, working on this project with archaeologists and diving deep into research was an incredible opportunity and great fun. I learned a lot. History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes. Many thanks to Roman Weindl for making “Quintana Quest” a reality!

Other projects I worked on in 2023:

  • Work on “Fishing Friends” the successor to Robot Riot’s “The Fishing Club 3D”.
  • I advised dappradar.com on their gamification strategy.
  • Ongoing support for The Fishing Club 3D.

2022

2013 – 2024

Games-as-a-Service / f2p

  • The Fishing Club 3D. This is the main project I have been working on since 2013. TFC is a free-to-play 3D fishing game that we developed at Robot Riot and launched in 2013 on Facebook Canvas. I worked on all aspects of the game design – from initial concept, system design, level/location design in Unity3D to creative writing/content creation and balancing. Robot Riot is a very small team, so after launch I not only continued to design new features and content but also took care of user acquisition (starting with a $40 Facebook Ads voucher), analytics and customer support. Making more right than wrong decisions we were able to grow The Fishing Club 3D into a profitable business and cross-platform game experience that is now available on Facebook Gameroom, Steam, Windows 10 Store, iOS and Android – and soon again on Facebook Canvas (WebGL).
  • eRepublik

Second Screen / Social TV / Gamification

Virtual Worlds

Nintendo DS

Mobile (J2ME)

  • Marble Galaxy (Pinball/Billard/Minigolf Genremix)
  • MTV – Pimp My Ride (Casual Mini Games Collection)
  • Gem Jam Fever (Puzzle)
  • Master of Maya (Online Trading Card Game)
  • The X-Files – Lion’s Den (Action-Adventure)
  • John Sinclair (First Person Shooter)
  • Elkware’s Solitair (Cards)
  • Elkware’s Backgammon (Board game)
  • The Fall: Last Days of Gaia (Turn Based Tactic)
  • Port Royale 2 (Explore, Exploit, Exterminate)
  • Das Schwarze Auge Arena (RPG-Fighting)
  • Dirk Nowitzki Shootout (Basketball casual game)
  • Miami Vice (GTA style racer)
  • Sacred (RPG)
  • Dodge the Doo (Uli Stein) (Casual)
  • MTV Robobouncer (Casual)
  • BMW Williams F1 Racing Team (Top View Racer)
  • Speed Chaser 3D (3D Racer)
  • Dirk Nowitzki 2 on 2 (Basketball game)
  • Armageddon Agents (Action-Adventure, Siemens pre-installed)
  • Bubble Boost (Jump & Run, Siemens pre-installed)
  • Crystal Hunters (Puzzle)
  • BMW 1’er Racer (Racing Game)

PC

  • Gothic
  • Codename: Panzers – Phase One Historion
  • Historion – Babylons Fluch
  • Der Schatz im Silbersee
  • Durch die Wüste
iDVD
  • Wetten Dass…? Das DVD Spiel

New Media

  • Weblin Client
  • Bom Chicka Wah Wah Flirt Game