Author name: Jesper Brun Halfter

Frypan Fight Club was created at Nordic Game Jam 2023 at Aalborg University in Copenhagen.We were a team of four that worked together for the duration of the 48 game jam to create this local multiplayer brawler for PC. Frypan Fight Club is a fast paced local multiplayer brawler where each player controls a garlic

Introduction This article presents the core level design guidelines for the Exploration game mode for Glyph. The Exploration game mode is the primary game mode of Glyph. This article outlines the rules of the game mode and delves into the level design guidelines for the mode. This article is made publicly available for those who

Harpoon FRVR is a simple mobile game where you play as a fisherman equipped with a variety of harpoon weapons and is tasked with catching as many fish as possible before the time runs out. Play it in your browser here:https://harpoon.frvr.com/ Or find it on Google Play Store:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.frvr.harpoon&hl=en_US&gl=US I was the game designer on this

Trigon is a fast paced reaction based game where you spin a triangle in order to hit incoming lines with the correct color. The speed of the lines increases as you go and the goal is to get as high a score as possible before failing by matching colors incorrectly. Trigon is available on Facebook,

Star Suckers is a local multiplayer game where up to four players compete at being the last one standing in a rapidly collapsing solar system. In this fast paced physics simulation a procedurally generated solar system containing one star and several orbiting planets quickly collapses as a result of gravity.You and the other players can

Dick Wilde is a VR shooter released in 2017 on Steam and the Oculus Store. It won two CopenX awards in 2017 for Best Nordic VR and Best Global VR game. Dick Wilde was the first major project I took on as a game designer at Bolverk Games. An early prototype of the game was

Picoban is a maze puzzle game with very simple controls. As you take the role of the imprisoned Picoban you must find a way to escape from the cursed and illusive castle. The trick is that you cannot stop moving once you have started in a direction before you hit a wall or something else that stops you.

HELLSTAR is a fast-paced shoot ’em up set in outer space that puts the player up against an adapting enemy. The game is a prototype for PC designed as a part of a project where the goal was to experiment with character progression in a shoot ’em up game.     Shoot your way through the

SPACE BUTTS is the product of Mark Olsen and I having a blast at Nordic Game Jam 2016. We created a cooperative game featuring two space engineers struggling to save their spaceship which is under heavy fire from alien aggressors. The trick is to apply hammer to everything that breaks on the ship. However, each of

Purge The Land is my submission for Global Game Jam 2016. It was created in under 48 hours at ITU Copenhagen using Game Maker Studio, Photoshop CS5 and FL Studio 11. The theme of the game jam was Ritual. I decided to design a game where the player has to control a group of disciples as they

Wan Yama is a prototype I developed in order to test a concept for a lightweight turn-based strategy game. The prototype was created as a part of a business course where I had to develop a game concept, game prototype and a business plan to follow. I was heavily inspired by an old browser game BBC – Walking

Protega was my entry for the 48 hour KADK Fall Jam 2015 at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Design School.The game won an award at the event but I forgot which one (there were about as many awards as there were participants so it probably doesn’t matter that much). That said, this was the

DDX49 is a shoot-em-up prototype I worked on part time during my summer holiday in 2015. It served as practice for using Game Maker Studio. The project served well as an opportunity to experiment with game feel and top-down controls with mouse and keyboard. You can download it for PC on Itch.io here: https://jehal.itch.io/ddx49  

As a part of an open pledge challenge every participant had to do something every day and upload the result in our group. I took on the challenge of creating and uploading a game every day after work. DAY 1 Trevor versus Pigeons The first game is called Trevor versus Pigeons. The challenge is to hit as

Polsefest was the result of Joachim Gerber, Frederik Bager and I, working together at the KADK Local Jam in the spring of 2015. In the game, each of four players controls a viking and must battle in a free-for-all by throwing sausages at one another until the last viking stands. While the game is somewhat ridiculous, it was

Tortharious is a two player platform racing game where the goal is to survive longer than the other player. The players will play the exact same obstacle course, only mirrored. Occasionally, a dimension sphere will appear, which when reached, will invert all platforms, turning safe platforms into spike platforms and vice versa. The game was made

SCOUTS! is a mobile game about three scouts on an adventurous quest in the wild. As your group runs through the forest they encounter different obstacles that a specific one of the scouts is able to handle. It is up to the player to stay prepared and arrange the order of the scouts before each obstacle. This

This is a learning game project I worked on for a 5 week course where I developed a concept for a game called ISOMATH. The goal of ISOMATH is to help 3rd. graders learn and practice math by completing small puzzles on a tablet. In ISOMATH, the player is presented with a room in which the goal is to move blocks

Sheep Tag – Print and play A print and play board game project from a 5 week board game course during my second year of my bachelor’s course. Sheep tag is a print and play game that you could play simply by printing out the board and use bottlecaps as pawns. As the player, you must use your