Ben 10 Alien Strike[Link]
Ben 10 is the shape shifting hero of the eponymous show from the Cartoon Network. Our friends at Skive asked us to think up and develop a fully-featured platform game, we had wanted to make a platformer for ages so this was the opportunity we'd been waiting for!
The game has many of the conventional features of a regular platformer, but adds an extra dimension to showcase Ben's ability to transform into his alien alter-egos. This allowed us to have some fun with level design - transforming into Wild Mutt allows Ben to leap huge distances and cling to walls, whereas Four Arms transforms Ben into a scenery-wrecking juggernaut!
We realised early on in the project that we needed to create a level editor in Flash to streamline the game development process. Using this we could paint in walls and floors, drop in some baddies, assign them behaviours then click "play" to test the level.
The game features end of chapter boss battles with some of the baddies from the TV series, culminating in a showdown with the evil Vilgax. The sound and artwork supplied by Skive makes the whole game feel slick and atmospheric.