Games & Projects
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Bubble Woods
Match-3
Crashday
Arcade Racing
Hero Zero
Casual RPG
Charm King
Match-3
King of Castles
Casual Action
Smarty Bubbles
Match-3
Paper Chase
Flight Game
K&K Jungle Run
Endless Runner
Happy Treasure
Social Game
Mr. Nik's Crazy Kart
Arcade Racing
Car Visualization
Tech Demo
Evoker
Trading Card Game
Bubble Woods
Client: Moonbyte GamesGenre: Match-3 (F2P)
Platform: Facebook
Services: All design & development
Tech: Adobe Flash (Haxe), PHP
Launch: 2012
Bubble Woods is a 60-seconds bubble shooter, developed in-house. Our original ambition was to create one of best playable bubble shooters on Facebook. After launch in 2012, Bubble Woods quickly gained popularity and grew virally to an all-time high of 750,000 monthly players in mid 2013.
Screenshots Play (Fb)Hero Zero
Client: PlayataGenre: Casual RPG (F2P)
Platform: Web
Services: Conception, design & producing
Tech: Flash (AS3), PHP
Launch: 2011
Hero Zero is a free-to-play casual RPG by Playata in which everyday people can become a hero. In cooperation with Playata, Moonbyte created the game's initial concept, designed the core features, and led the production team up to first launch of the game. Today, Hero Zero has over 14 million players across the globe.
Screenshots Play (Web)Charm King
Client: PlayQ Inc.Genre: Match-3 (F2P)
Platform: Facebook
Services: Porting mobile version to Facebook
Tech: Adobe Flash (Haxe)
Launch: 2014
Charm King is a beautiful level-based match-3 game by US publisher PlayQ. Moonbyte was responsible for porting the existing mobile version to Facebook. The game client was fully rewritten for Facebook. One of the key goals was to achieve an identical game feel like on mobile, combined with fast performance in Adobe Flash. Charm King Facebook currently reaches over 100,000 daily players.
Screenshots Play (Fb)Crashday
Publisher: AtariGenre: Arcade Racing
Platform: PC
Services: All design & development
Tech: C++, DirectX
Release: 2006
Crashday is the arcade racing game that brought Moonbyte to life. Starting as our hobby project at the age of 14, Crashday grew bigger and eventually —after 7 years in development— was released by publisher Atari in 2006. Until today, this game has a very special meaning for us. Crashday sold more than 250,000 retail copies world-wide.
Screenshots Watch TrailerSmarty Bubbles
Client: KaisergamesGenre: Match-3 (F2P)
Platform: iOs / Android / Web
Services: All design & development
Tech: Flash/Adobe Air (AS3)
Launch: 2012, 2014
Smarty Bubbles is our take on the classic bubble shooter. It was created together with our friends at Kaisergames. We tried to create a simple, elegant and well-polished match-3 classic. The web version has been played more than 50 million times. Moreover, the HTML5 port of the game is ranked #1 from 300+ games on Kaisergames' HTML5 portal sites.
Screenshots Play (iOs)King of Castles
Client: coreX GroupGenre: Casual Action (F2P)
Platform: iOs / Android
Services: Additional producing and design
Tech: Unity3D (C#), Java
Launch: 2014
King of Castles is a mobile casual action game by core X, published by Gameforge and DeNA. The game combines Angry Birds-style shooting gameplay with construction mechanics from strategy games. Moonbyte supported the external development team with additional producing and design.
Screenshots Play (iOs) Play (Android)Paper Chase
Client: Nurdy Muny Inc.Genre: Casual Flight Game
Platform: iOs
Services: Prototype development
Tech: Unity3D (C#)
Launch: 2013
Paper Chase is a casual flight game in which you steer a paper plane through the streets of New York. Nurdy Muny hired us to create a first fully playable prototype for the game, including all gameplay and graphics. The prototype was later extended into a full version by Nurdy Muny themselves. The full game has seen several million downloads on Google Play since its release in 2013.
Screenshots Play (Android)Kiba & Kumba Jungle Run
Client: KaisergamesGenre: Endless Runner
Platform: Web
Services: Design & development
Tech: Flash (AS3)
Launch: 2012
Kiba & Kumba Jungle Run is a joyful endless runner game, created for Kaisergames and featuring Kaisergame's mascot characters Kiba and Kumba. We tried to design colorful Mario-like environment and combine it with smooth, well-playing 60 FPS gameplay.
Screenshots Play (Web)Happy Treasure
Client: -Genre: Social Game (F2P)
Platform: Facebook
Services: All design & development
Tech: Flash (AS3), PHP
Launch: 2010 (closed Beta)
Happy Treasure is a social game for Facebook that we created internally. You are traveling the world to dig for treasures, which you can then decorate in your mansion. Unfortunately, the game was never released to the public, due to a lack of funding back in 2010.
ScreenshotsMr. Nik's Crazy Kart
Client: PlaynikGenre: Arcade Racing Game
Platform: Facebook
Services: All design & development
Tech: Unity3D (C#), PHP
Release: 2010
Mr. Nik's Crazy Kart is a small Mario Kart-like racing game for Facebook. It combines colorful graphics with accessible gameplay, fun characters and highscore competition through Facebook. It was created in cooperation with SnapDragon Games and publisher Playnik.
ScreenshotsCar Visualization
Client: -Genre: Tech demo
Platform: Web
Services: All design & development
Tech: Unity3D (C#)
Release: 2009
We created this real-time graphics demo in cooperation with SnapDragon Games. Our goals was to showcase which level of visual fidelity is possible in the browser in 2009. The demo is using Unity3D with custom "fake HDR" shaders for more realistic car reflections.
Screenshots Play (Web)Evoker
Client: FlaregamesGenre: Trading Card Game
Platform: iOs / Android
Services: Design & UX optimization
Release: 2013
Evoker is a fantasy-themed trading card game by Flaregames. Moonbyte was working with Flaregames to improve the game's Day 1 retention. It was possible to achieve this goal through various measures such as UX optimizations, balancing changes, and improvements on the game entry flow.
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Smaller contracts and projects under NDA are currently not listed.
(including clients, amongst others: Innogames, European Games Group, Mueller Ventures, MBL Development, Rumble Media, core X Group)