Ismael Moyano

Game Developer
Ismael

✨ Hi! I'm Ismael and I like to develop cool games.

📚 These are my past projects, both professional and personal.

✉️ Feel free to get in touch about anything!



  • Project

    Les Mills Bodycombat

    Fitness   VR   Meta Quest   Live Service

    An intense VR fitness game with challenging stages. The coaches will make you sweat!

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    Dani & Evan: Dinosaur Books

    Visual Novel   Mobile   Nintendo Switch   Released

    A dinotastic interactive book, with exploration, minigames and collectables.

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    Broken Echoes

    Action/Adventure   PC   Indie

    An action/adventure game with thrilling combat, cinematic cutscenes and cool music.

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    The Vanishing Hitchhiker

    Visual Novel   Nintendo Switch   Released

    A spooky visual novel with choices and multiple endings, for the Nintendo Switch.

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    Pinzo's Smoothie Stand

    Puzzle   PC   In Development

    A narrative puzzle game with 2.5D graphics, smoothies and talking sea creatures.

    • But just who is this Ismael fellow?

    ✨ Here's a random fact about me! ✨

    Two of my favorite game franchises are Dark Souls and Kirby. Opposites touch.

    Les Mills Bodycombat

    Fitness   VR   Meta Quest   Live Service  

      Les Mills Bodycombat is a Virtual Reality live service fitness game based on the widely acclaimed Bodycombat training program.

    • Formed part of the team working on the transition to the new season pass service model.
    • Implemented new gameplay features, a reworked UI and a new unit testing framework.
    • Worked on the refactoring of the game’s whole codebase, implementing new architecture and design patterns, and applying Scrum to meet target deadlines.

    Dani & Evan: Dinosaur Books

    Visual Novel   Mobile   Nintendo Switch   Released  

      Dani & Evan: Dinosaur Books is an interactive visual novel based on the book series "The Adventures of Dani and Evan".

    • Programmed and designed the game, and also ported it to the Nintendo Switch afterwards.
    • As part of a small team of four, I took responsability for the technical side of the project, ensuring we met the deadlines required by investors.
    • Designed the GDD and the game’s architecture, implementing the necessary design patterns to ensure the project ran optimally on all devices.
    • Also took on the roles of animator, VFX artist, guionist and audio designer.

    Broken Echoes

    Action/Adventure   PC   Indie  

      Broken Echoes is an independent project developed alongside my Master's colleagues. It's an action/adventure game with different combat classes, exploration and motion captured cinematics.

    • Took on the roles of Audio and UI Programmer, and Music Composer.
    • Implemented dynamic SFX and ambience, adaptive music and 3D audio using the FMOD Studio middleware.
    • Designed the game’s SFX and composed the game’s nine music tracks.
      Here's "The Broken Continuum", the battle theme.

    The Vanishing Hitchhiker

    Visual Novel   Nintendo Switch   Released  

      The Vanishing Hitchhiker is a short visual novel for the Nintendo Switch with multiple story paths, different endings and spooky girls.

    • The game features multiple choices during the story. These different paths are interconected, resulting in multiple possible endings.
    • Created a custom markup language to handle the game's events and branching paths.
    • Game created from scratch for the Nintendo Switch.

    Pinzo's Smoothie Stand

    Puzzle   PC   In Development  

      Pinzo's Smoothie Stand is my own personal project, currently in development. It's a narrative puzzle game with a chill story and fruit-rolling mechanics.

    • Pinzo the crab makes smoothies for his clients, but also helps them with their problems along the way!
    • In the game's puzzles, Pinzo has to roll fruits from the beach to his stand under a number of turns, avoiding obstacles and the ever threatening tide.
    • The game features a cool 2.5D artstyle, with cut-out characters on a 3D world.
    • I'm working as a solo developer, with some help for character sprites and models.

    Coming soon...