Noora Routasuo

Poppy Pets

A classic match 3 game where you collect eggs and hatch pets as you progress through the levels. The buckets at the bottom of the screen give bonuses to pieces falling off the board, making power pieces central to gameplay. Built on the Defold game engine and supports both online and offline play. I joined the development relatively late, focusing on meta features such as tutorial, account management and shop.

• gameplay video 1 @Youtube
• gameplay video 2 @Youtube

Idle Mercenary

A mercenary manager where you hire mercenaries with different specializations and skills and send them on missions around the world. Successful missions grant money and XP which is used to improve, heal, and hire more mercenaries. Both mercenaries and missions are randomly generated. The game is built in Unity. I was the sole programmer on the project.

• gameplay video 1 @Youtube
• gameplay video 2 @Youtube
• gameplay video 3 @Youtube

Go Go Grenade

A casual social game where you throw grenades (and bunnies, and astronauts, and other things) to other players across the world. The receiving player can throw the grenade forward. Built in Unity. Since the team was small I was involved in almost every part of the game's development including UI system, 3D scene setup, tutorial, throwing input and backend communication.

• promotional video @Youtube
• gameplay video @Youtube

Blastlands

Fast-paced multiplayer shooting game released for Android Early Access in July 2018 and iOS soft launch in selected countries in February 2019. The game had several modes, including a continuous hop-on hop-off style free-for-all and a capture-the-flag based team match. Points gained in matches could be spent on unlocking more units and boosters. Players could also compete in seasonal leaderboards and collect dog-tags to display on their profile.

Blastlands was built on the Defold engine. Since the team was small I was involved in almost every part of the game's development including server game logic, UI, visual effects and the tutorial.

• home page
• highlights video 1 @Youtube
• highlights video 2 @Youtube
• gameplay video 1 @Youtube
• gameplay video 2 @Youtube

Level 13

A text-based incremental browser game in the vein of A Dark Room and CivClicker. Set in a post-apocalyptic sci-fi world, in a massive multi-level abandoned city, where the player must rebuild civilization after its mysterious collapse. Features randomly generated maps, exploration, resource management, base-building, item crafting and a technology tree.

The game is currently in alpha, and is built using Ash.js, an entity-component framework for JavaScript.

• play (alpha)
• code @Github
• community @Reddit

A Little Lost

A match-3 puzzle game with collectible friends ("Littles") who help the player completing the puzzle levels. Developed by two parallel teams for web (Flash) and mobile (Unity). I started in the web team and gradually shifted over to the mobile team. I built much of the game's UI, the level map, and a system for levels with multiple game boards.

• trailer @Youtube
• gameplay videos @Youtube

Shadow Kings

A free-to-play MMO game where the player can build a base, attack other players or NPCs, set up defences, and form alliances. Shadow Kings aimed to be a more casual successor to the extremely popular Goodgame Empire. My contributions to the game include much of the UI animations system, the tutorial and the attack and defence screens.

• gameplay video @Youtube

Circle Invaders

A Unity clone of the classic Space Invaders game with a twist: instead of staying in the bottom of the screen, the player is moving on a circle and the invaders are approaching from every direction. Built using Unity as a prototype to explore a more Unity-oriented game architecture.

• source @Github

Palikkapeli (Block Game)

An Experimental User Interfaces course project made together with Kenta Kusumoto and Antti Seppä. Our goal was to create a game that is both cooperative and competetive. Two teams compete by creating simple shapes and "throwing" them to the opposing team's side. The catch is that to create these shapes, often more then two hands are needed. The game is built with Processing.

• gameplay video @ Youtube

Lentorottapeli (Flying Rat Game)

A university course project. A Flappy Bird-style side-scrolling flying game where the aim is to manage to fly from one location to another while avoiding obstacles and fights and collecting power-ups and coins. The resting points contain scripted events and the fighting system is inspired by classic Japanese RPGs.

• executable (jar) (in Finnish)

Placie

A location-based AR social app that lets users decorate and post pictures ("placies") in their location and view them in AR mode.

The project started as a location-based AR game but shifted towards a gamified social app based on early user feedback. As the team was small everyone was involved in all aspects of the project, but I worked especially on the image decoration tools (such as stickers and text), the AR mode, tutorial and various user interface components.

• promotional video @Youtube

Last.fm Visualizations

A collection of interactive visualizations based on a user's Last.fm music listening data, including a tag timeline, an artist timeline and a tag cloud. Built using D3.js and the Last.fm API.

• link
• source @Github

Master's Thesis

Thesis project examining the theoretical and practical process of exploratory information visualization. The project consisted of research into the process of exploratory visualization as well as the iterative development of tailored visualization tools for Aalto University's Institutional Relationships unit.

The resulting thesis is titled Exploratory Visualization of Inter-Organizational Networks. The visualization tools were built with Processing and additional graphs for the thesis were made in R.

• thesis (pdf)