Selected project
Frozen Frontier
Built an Alaskan survival game with connected learning systems and a Blender pipeline supporting 35 building families.
Purpose
Frozen Frontier explores how learning can feel like part of an adventure rather than a separate assignment. Players survive, explore, build a settlement, and complete educational challenges inside one Alaskan world, with every activity contributing to the same sense of progress for players and their families.
Technical implementation
The playable world uses Canvas and Firebase to connect construction, crafting, missions, combat, residents, and learning progress. A deterministic Blender pipeline generates consistent isometric sprites across 35 building families and 14 upgrade levels, while asset-review tools and Godot parity work keep a growing production library organized and testable.
- Canvas
- Firebase
- Blender
- Godot
One building recipe, many frozen worlds.
- Define the family
- Apply a theme
- Bake the set
- Lock the footprint
- Review as a system
Four families at levels 1, 5, 10, and 14 expose progression gaps before the full library is promoted.
The same store, explored through six themes.
Alaska
Arctic Salvage
Steampunk
Fairy Tale
Nordic Rune-Warden
Junkyard Clockwork
Selected screens
Build a working settlement One playable settlement shows exploration, resources, construction, and residents sharing the same progression loop.
Scale the character system Directional previews catch inconsistent resident variants before a skin is promoted into the game.
Review assets as a system A shared review grid exposes alignment and progression differences across a complete building family.
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