Christopher Atallah

Super Code Strike is a multiplayer mobile game in which players build and defend their own Islands while going out and raiding other players Islands. The building and defending is done using a top-down interaction system and visual scripting to “program” your robots and traps. You can then take your character and raid other players Islands using a third-person touch-based controller.

I worked as the Lead Game Designer on this project focusing mainly on the core-gameplay mechanics and player interactions.

Net Kicks is a game I designed and developed while working at TimePlay and runs on the TimePlay platform. TimePlay games have multiple players using their phones to interact with a single shared screen (Big Screen). The games ran across Canada in Cineplex movie Theaters and at events, conferences and on cruise ships.

On this project I worked as the Game Designer for the initial design and maintaining the Game Design Document through the length of the project. I also worked as the mobile and game developer on this project where I developed the mobile controller (Unity iOS and Android) and the Big Screen (Unity PC).

Working with our concept artist we put together concepts for how we wanted the game to look and play. The environment was made to be completely destructible to make it more entertaining when players miss the net. If a ball hits the fridge, the door pops off. If the door is off and a ball hits a bottle it explodes. This increased the interaction with the game.

Because TimePlay games are designed to be 60 second experiences, we had an interesting time designing the controls to make sure that players quickly understood how to play the game. We added instructions to the Big Screen and eventually changed the controller to a slingshot to make the controls more intuitive to players.

Goldfish Race is a game I designed and developed while working at TimePlay and runs on the TimePlay platform. TimePlay games have multiple players using their phones to interact with a single shared screen (Big Screen). The games ran across Canada in Cineplex movie Theaters and at events, conferences and on cruise ships.

For this project I acted as the Game Designer and assisted with Development. I designed the original concept and maintained the Game Design Document through the length of the project.

The Goldfish Race game has players shake their phones as hard as they can to move their teams Goldfish forward on the Big Screen. Teams that cross the finish line first wins the race.

Development of this game was great for learning ways to optimize performance when scaling up the number of players. We spent a lot of time working on network message optimization to make sure that this game could work for 10 to 100’s of players. The Big Screen would receive the shakes from players phones and move their teams Goldfish up the screen the more their team shakes their phones.

Lindor Truffle Shuffle is a game I designed and developed while working at TimePlay and runs on the TimePlay platform. TimePlay games have multiple players using their phones to interact with a single shared screen (Big Screen). The games ran across Canada in Cineplex movie Theaters and at events, conferences and on cruise ships.

I worked as the Game Designer and Unity Mobile Developer (iOS and Android) on this project. This game played nationally at Cineplex theaters across Canada.

In Lindor Truffle Shuffle, players use their phones to toss chocolates into Lindor bags on the Big Screen. Players need to look at their device and determine which color chocolate they will need to sort. They then need to look at the Big Screen to see the position of the bag they are looking for. They then swipe on their phones to toss the chocolate onto the Big Screen where it flies into the bag they were aiming for.

The Puck Stops Here is a game I designed and developed while working at TimePlay and runs on the TimePlay platform and my first attempt at a hockey game! TimePlay games have multiple players using their phones to interact with a single shared screen (Big Screen). The games ran across Canada in Cineplex movie Theaters and at events, conferences and on cruise ships.

The Puck Stops Here was designed to work in hockey stadiums. Players use their device to act as the goalie and try to stop shots from the Big Screen. Players choose their team based on where they are sitting in the stadium. Hockey players skate onto the Big Screen and take shots towards different corners of the screen. Players use their devices to move their goalie into different positions to make the save. Players goalies on their devices move with the players fingers as they drag across the device.

Home Run Derby is a baseball game I designed and developed while working at TimePlay and runs on the TimePlay platform. TimePlay games have multiple players using their phones to interact with a single shared screen (Big Screen). The games ran across Canada in Cineplex movie Theaters and at events, conferences and on cruise ships.

I acted as the Game Designer and Mobile Game Developer (iOS and Android) for this project.

Players are all acting as batters with the pitcher on the Big Screen. The pitcher winds up and throws the ball towards the audience. The ball then appears on all of the players phones and they need to tap the screen to hit the ball. The better the timing, the better the hit.

Players are scored based on the number of home runs they hit and the total distance the balls were hit.

Interac Concession or Not is a whack-a-mole game I designed and developed while working at TimePlay and runs on the TimePlay platform. TimePlay games have multiple players using their phones to interact with a single shared screen (Big Screen). The games ran across Canada in Cineplex movie Theaters and at events, conferences and on cruise ships.

I acted as the Game Designer for this project. I oversaw development to ensure the game felt right and matched the design and desires of the client. I also maintained the Game Design Document through the length of the project.

This game asks players to tap their phones when they see an item that can be purchased from the concession stand in the Cineplex theater. Items pop up from under the counter and players need to decide if they are concession items or not. Players would then need to tap their phones, in a motion of tapping their Interac card. The game is similar to a whack-a-mole game where players need to time their tap with the appropriate items.

This game played nationally at Cineplex theaters across Canada. I worked as the Game Designer for this project.

Chevy Cruise Finger Race is a racing game I designed and developed while working at TimePlay and runs on the TimePlay platform. TimePlay games have multiple players using their phones to interact with a single shared screen (Big Screen). The games ran across Canada in Cineplex movie Theaters and at events, conferences and on cruise ships.

I worked as a Game Developer for both the Big Screen (Standalone Unity) and controller (Mobile Unity Developer) for this project.

This is a TimePlay game where players would draw a path for their car using their device. When the race would start, players cars would race around the track at the same time based on the speed that the players traced their fingers.

This game played nationally at Cineplex theaters across Canada.

Quiz-it is a trivia game I developed while working at TimePlay and runs on the TimePlay platform. TimePlay games have multiple players using their phones to interact with a single shared screen (Big Screen). The games ran across Canada in Cineplex movie Theaters and at events, conferences and on cruise ships.

Quiz-It is one of the flagship games that I developed while working at TimePlay. It is one of the most used and sold TimePlay games. It is developed to be fully customization multiple-choice trivia game. Users can customize the background video, question, answers, large image, timer colours and leaderboard look.

Questions appear on the Big Screen and players use their devices to answer the questions as quickly as they can. The quicker they correctly answer the question the higher their score.

Quiz-It is currently running in many venues including regularly at Cineplex theaters during the pre-show before movies begin.

Soundscape is a multiplayer music game I developed while working at TimePlay and runs on the TimePlay platform. TimePlay games have multiple players using their phones to interact with a single shared screen (Big Screen). The games ran across Canada in Cineplex movie Theaters and at events, conferences and on cruise ships.

I worked as a Game Designer on this project maintaining the Game Design Document and assisted with some mobile development (Unity iOS and Android).

Players all play at the same time. There are two buttons on the Big Screen and two buttons on players devices. Players need to time their button presses with the notes hitting the buttons on the Big Screen.

Horse is a basketball game I designed and developed while working at TimePlay and runs on the TimePlay platform. TimePlay games have multiple players using their phones to interact with a single shared screen (Big Screen). The games ran across Canada in Cineplex movie Theaters and at events, conferences and on cruise ships.

I worked as the Mobile Game Developer (Unity iOS and Android) while another developer developed the Big Screen.

Horse was designed to be played in a large stadium during a basketball game. Players are shown a basketball player shooting a ball on the Big Screen. Players then need to drag their finger on their devices to match the arc from the Big Screen. When they release the ball, it flies following the path of their arc.

This controller was developed using Playmaker.

Poll Em is a polling game I developed while working at TimePlay. TimePlay games have multiple players using their phones to interact with a shared Big Screen, such as the movie theater screen at Cineplex. I worked as the Game Developer (Unity PC) and Mobile Game Developer (Unity iOS and Android).

Using their devices, players can vote for an option that answers a question.

This game was made to be fully customizable, from the colours, images, backgrounds, questions and answers. As well as the layout, from 2 options up to 5 and with different options of whether to include images or not.

Bot Runner is a racing game I developed while working at TimePlay. TimePlay games have multiple players using their phones to interact with a shared Big Screen, such as the movie theater screen at Cineplex. I acted as the Mobile Game Developer (Unity iOS and Android) on this project.

Players tap the left and right buttons on their device to make their bot run faster. While the bot is running on the Big Screen it is being chased by a mouse. If the mouse hits the bot, it explodes and you need to start again. The player to tap quickest reaches the end of the race and earns the most points.

The Line Drawing Prototype is a multiplayer capture-the-flag game I designed and developed while working at TimePlay. TimePlay games have multiple players using their phones to interact with a shared Big Screen, such as the movie theater screen at Cineplex. This was a side project at TimePlay in which I acted as the Game Designer, Big Screen Game Developer (Unity PC) and Mobile Game Developer (Unity iOS and Android).

This prototype was made while working at TimePlay. This prototype was made to test the idea of drawing a line around a map, like drawing through a classic line maze on a cereal box, and having your avatar follow that path on the Big Screen. Players would need to navigate their avatar from their end of the map to the other, pickup a flag, and get it back to their base to score points.

While your character ran around the maze, you could also use your device to attack other players, put up a shield or drop a bomb.

Monkey from Beyond is a hide-and-seek game I designed while working at TimePlay. TimePlay games have multiple players using their phones to interact with a shared Big Screen, such as the movie theater screen at Cineplex. I worked as the Game Designer on this project and maintained a Game Design Document to track changes.

The Monkey from Beyond was a test of our platforms ability to put a large number of avatars on screen at the same time. We usually chose not to add a lot of avatars because it quickly became difficult to find yourself. This game worked well for this because it wasn’t as important to know specifically which avatar was yours so much as where your avatar was hiding.

The Monkey from Beyond is a play on the whack-a-mole game mechanic. Players pick a building for their monkey avatar to run into to hide while an alien is hovering over buildings. The alien moved from building to building until attacking a random building. If your avatar was in the building when it is hit, you lose points. If your avatar is safe in another building, you gain points.

Arctic Divide was a Senior project for the Interactive Multimedia and Design program at Carleton University. I worked on Game Development (Unity PC), level design, programming (C#), modeling and set building for this project.

I worked in a team of 4 over a period of a year on this project. We designed and developed a 360 degree projector screen setup, a steering wheel with pedals, a 360 degree rotating and vibrating turret gun and a set piece designed game.

Players would play in a group of 2. One player would drive the vehicle while the second player would shoot from the turret on the vehicle.

Hats was a game developed in a group over a 48 hours period for a Global Game Jam. All of the audio, levels and assets were done by the team and inside the allocated time window. Hats was developed using Flash and I worked as a Game Developer and Programmer on this project.

Hats was a basic side-scrolling game with a twist. Players could switch the hat that the player wore to give him special abilities. Players would need to learn how to use the abilities to beat the different levels challenges.

Hats can be played here

PocketShip was a game designed and developed as part of the Interactive Multimedia and Design program at Carleton University. I worked as a Mobile Developer (Unity web iOS and Android) and Game Developer (Unity PC).

PocketShip was designed to work at a conference where people would come and go from the booth. Players could connect to the game using their phones browsers. They could then customize their ships and, using the gyroscope by tilting their phones, steer their ship on the computer screen.

Players would compete in mini-games that would be triggered every 30 seconds.

Tile Tank was a game developed in the Interactive Multimedia and Design program at Carleton University. I worked as a Game Developer (C++) on this project. The game was released for the Windows Phone store.

Tile Tank is a WP8 puzzle game. Players would tap on spaces ahead of their tank to move it forward. If moving off of a red space, the space would fall and the player could no longer move that direction. Players would need to strategically navigate the puzzles to pickup all the gears and reach the exit.

We also developed a level editor tool so that players could create and publish their own maps and an online rankings/leaderboard system.

BitBox is a group project done for a class in the Interactive Multimedia and Design program at Carleton University. I worked as a Game Designer, Game Developer (Flash) and set builder.

Working in a team of 4, we designed and built the entire touch surface box (this was before touch screens existed…) and a suite of games that people could play together on the multi-touch surface.

We used infrared light emitted onto a translucent sheet and a modified PS3 camera to capture fingerprints from the top of the screen.