Teddybears with shotguns. And a vampire.

What:	Local multiplayer top-down vampire hunting
How:	Unity Standalone Win
Me:	Game Direction & Design, GUI Programming, 3d Modeling

Bearadise Hotel is a 2-4 player competitive, yet humoristic top-down 2D game with a strong focus on social interaction between its players. It uses Xbox controllers connected to a pc and is a local multiplayer game, i.e. all players play at the same pc at the same time. Its setting is a teddy bear beach resort inhabited by identical teddy bears, bustling with activity at the peak of the season. Unfortunately, one of the resort guests is a vampire.
The game was developed together with Rune Hilbert, Jens Lauridsen, Jacob Ringbo, Peter Papez and Enric LLagostera at Nordic Game Jam 2012, and further developed at Exile Jam 2012, where it was voted third place by the attendees. Woooh!

It's not a bug, it's the future!

What:	First person action puzzle
How:	Unity Webplayer + Standalone
Me:	Project Manager

Politiken review:

This game was made during six weeks as part of the DADIU program in 2012. I was project manager for this duration, managing a team of 16 persons. The game was reviewed by Politiken, and received 5 out of 6 stars.

"In the near future a corporation named The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) have invented a computer system that enables transit to the digital dimension. It was tested in a trial apartment complex, but the experiment malfunctioned and all the residents have disappeared.
You are sent into the quarantined area to gather the experimental computers. To be able to do this you have to go to the digital dimension. Be careful! The former residents still haunt the place like virtual ghosts. Don’t get caught, or you will be stuck in the digital dimension forever."

Touch to Play - Exploring Touch-Based Mobile Interaction with Public Displays

Gregor Broll, Roman Graebsch, Maximilian Scherr, Sebastian Boring, Paul Holleis, Matthias Wagner
In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Near Field Communication (NFC2011), Hagenberg, Austria, February 22, 2011, ISBN 978-0-7695-4327-7

Mobile interactions with public displays are often indirect and not very convenient for multiple users at the same time. In this paper we use the physical, touch-based interaction with Near Field Communication (NFC) to investigate direct mobile interactions with public displays for multiple users. For that purpose, we adopt the Whack-a-Mole game for dynamic NFC-displays, which combine the physical interaction with NFCtagged objects and the visual output capabilities of public displays. We show that a grid of NFC-tags can be used to implement direct mobile interaction with public displays in general and a highly interactive multiplayer game in particular. Our study shows that users appreciate this physical, NFC-based mobile interaction, although technical advances are still necessary in order to improve its recognition rate of about 70%. The study also indicates that users are willing to interact with large displays in public, but prefer private or semi-public places, where their interactions attract less attention.

Dynamic NFC-Displays as a Prototyping Platform for Direct Mobile Interactions with Public Displays

Gregor Broll, Wolfgang Reithmeier, Roman Graebsch, Paul Holleis, Matthias Wagner
UBI Challenge Workshop 2010 at Ubicomp 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 26 - 29, 2010

Mobile interaction with public displays is usually indirect and depends on the limited input features of mobile devices. Dynamic NFC-displays combine the simplicity and directness of mobile interaction with NFC-tagged, physical objects and the visual output capabilities of public displays. In this paper, we explore this technology as a prototyping platform for the development of more direct and personal mobile interactions with public displays for Ubiquitous and Urban Computing. We present use case scenarios, discuss the basic technology and report our experiences with two applications for information exchange and gaming.

Touch to Play - Mobile Gaming with Dynamic, NFC-based Physical User Interfaces

Gregor Broll, Roman Graebsch, Paul Holleis, Matthias Wagner
Design Competition at MobileHCI 2010, Lisboa, Portugal, September 07 - 10, 2010

Mobile devices can take advantage of physical interaction with their environment and its objects to compensate their constrained input and output capabilities. For that purpose, dynamic NFCdisplays combine the physical interaction with NFC-tagged user interfaces and the output capabilities of public displays. We have adopted this technology for the Whack-a-Mole game to show how it can improve the accessibility and usability of mobile games. This paper describes the design of the game and explores how physical interaction with dynamic NFC-displays can compensate the constraints of mobile games and enrich their gameplay.

Our vision is to establish Digital Knights as a Copenhagen-based company with focus on gesture controlled and innovative technology in games. Founded by Agne Gediminskaite and myself, the company grew out of the initial team that developed Joust! in order to continue development after winning the Dare to be Digital 2011 game development competition and getting nominated for a BAFTA "Ones to watch" award in 2012.

The DADIU Greenhouse is an incubator by the danish national academy of digital, interactive entertainment. As most of the initial team on Joust! was part of the DADIU productions 2011, we were able to take part in the Greenhouse with Joust!. Through the Greenhouse we received hands-on consulting and mentoring from multiple industry professionals on business development topics, as well as sponsored trips to Nordic Game and the GDC Europe.

I was part of the Smart and Secure Services Research Group (S3) at DOCOMO Euro-Labs. During my time at DOCOMO, I was solely responsible for evolving the in-house, Java based Near Field Communication (NFC) framework. The framework is mainly employed to build applications which use physical, touch-based interaction to investigate direct mobile interactions with public displays for multiple users. Among other things, I extended the existing framework by its multi-user components, developed and designed a NFC-based Whack-a-Mole game (see Publications) and created an interactive map protoype for the London metropolitan area.

At Holtzbrinck Online Services I was integrated into the team of web-developers at Holtzbrinck Online Services. My tasks consisted of helping to maintain several regional and national newspaper sites (e.g. www.suedkurier.de) using their respective CMS, as well as developing new features and designs using HTML, JavaScript and CSS.

During my internship at gambit marketing & communication I got aquainted with the procedures in an advertising agency and worked with Adobe Creative Suite in order to develop alternative design ideas from sketch to pitch on customer's orders.
An internship certificate and reference can be found here (german).