Sebastian Schoibesberger

These projects were created as part of the FH Hagenberg Game Jams across multiple years. They showcase fast ideation, teamwork, and the ability to build playable prototypes under strong time constraints.

Across these jams, I contributed to different teams and projects with changing themes, mechanics, and scopes. For the 2025 entry, Knight and Squire, I contributed as a helping hand rather than as a main developer.

Included Entries

• 2023 – Cognitive Conflict
• 2024 – Pipe.exe
• 2025 – Knight and Squire — supporting contribution

An Amorphous Tale is a metroidvania platformer where the player controls a slime creature and traverses the environment using a physics-based rope mechanic. The project focuses on fluid movement and expressive traversal through dynamic interaction with the world.

My main focus in the project was the movement system, especially the slime rope swing mechanic, which allows the player to attach to objects and move through the world using momentum.

My Contributions

• Designed and implemented the slime rope swing mechanic using Unity’s 2D physics system
• Developed responsive movement controls focused on momentum and player feel

Technical Focus

• Physics-based rope simulation and constraint handling
• Momentum transfer and control during swinging
• Player input integration with physics-driven movement

Geospatial Ocultist was created as part of my university studies as both a practical prototype and a “recipe” for building spatial applications. The goal was to document a process for creating a Unity-based geospatial experience and to demonstrate that process with a small interactive prototype.

The concept focuses on motivating people to walk more by placing interactive objects and a lightweight minigame onto a digital map. The project combines map rendering, player position, and world interaction into a small but structured spatial app workflow.

Core Features

• Location-based prototype built in Unity
• Map-driven interaction using Niantic Lightship Maps SDK
• Use of ARDK within the overall
• Prototype structure designed as a reusable recipe for similar projects

Technical Focus

• Map setup and geospatial scene configuration in Unity
• Integration of position-aware content into a map-based environment
• Prefab spawning and object placement workflows
• Documentation of repeatable steps for future spatial app development

Fishbound is a retro-inspired 2D top-down adventure created for the Retro Game Jam 2026 held by Spelkollektivet. The game follows Dunk, who falls into the ocean and must explore, discover secrets, and find a way back to their boat.

The project was built around the theme Secrets and uses hidden abilities, exploration, and unusual encounters to drive progression through a compact but memorable game jam experience.

My personal focus in this project was on general features like the save system, progression system, inputs, simple enemy system and animation system through state machines and contributed to the tile logic system that is used by most of the abilities.

Core Features

• 2D top-down exploration with retro-inspired presentation
• Progression through discovering hidden abilities
• Short-form game jam design focused on curiosity and experimentation
• Pixel art visuals and SNES-inspired direction

Project Context

• Created for Retro Game Jam 2026 by Spelkollektivet
• Built around the jam theme Secrets
• Designed with retro console inspiration in mind

Somnium is a puzzle game using non-euclidean geometry to trap the player in dream worlds filled with mind-bending spatial challenges. The game takes the player through surreal environments on a journey connected to a lost artist’s soul.

From a technical perspective, this semester project is built around seamless portals and forced perspective, allowing spaces to behave in unexpected ways and creating puzzles that challenge perception, scale, and reality. My focus in this project was the seamless portals and various viewpoint based mechanics, done partly in blueprints and C++. Performance proved to be a challenge as multiple required scene renders are hard to make performative, especially when under time pressure.

Core Features

• Dream-like puzzle spaces built around impossible geometry
• Seamless portal transitions between connected areas
• Forced perspective mechanics that alter how objects and space are perceived
• Exploration and puzzle progression driven by spatial illusion