Ismael Moyano

Game Developer


Ismael

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

📚 These are my past projects, click on them for more details.

✉️ Feel free to get in touch about anything!



  • Project

    Les Mills Bodycombat

    Fitness   VR   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   Master's

    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! ✨

    Someone threw a duck over our fence once, so we adopted it for a couple of months. Its name was Colorines.

    Les Mills Bodycombat

    Fitness   VR   Nintendo Switch   Live Service  

      Les Mills Bodycombat is a Virtual Reality live service fitness game based on the world-renowned Bodycombat training program.

    • I worked mainly as part of the team delivering new content, developing the new features and reworking outdated ones.
    • Developed in partnership with Les Mills, the original creators of the Bodycombat program.
    • The game enjoys regular content updates with new stages, features and paid DLC expansions.
    • We worked in tandem with the other departments to meet the scheduled content release deadlines.

    Dani & Evan: Dinosaur Books

    Visual Novel   Mobile   Nintendo Switch   Released  

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

    • I worked as the programmer and designer of the game, but also did animations, writing and sound design.
    • The game was developed in collaboration with the book publisher "Grupo Planeta".
    • It adapts the book's story, and includes environment exploration, minigames and collectables.
    • Some of the challenges during development were the Japanese localization, the creation of a modular chapter system and the port to Nintendo Switch.

    Broken Echoes

    Action/Adventure   PC   Master's  

      Broken Echoes was my Master's final project. It's an action/adventure game with different combat classes, exploration and motion captured cinematics.

    • My main roles were as an Audio Programmer, UI Programmer and Music Composer.
    • Our team was comprised of 6 people, and it took us almost a full year to develop.
    • I used FMOD Studio to implement dynamic sound effects and ambience, adaptive music and 3D audio.
    • Yes I composed the music too! 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 and endings; and spooky girls.

    • The game features multiple choices during the story. These different paths are interconected, resulting in 5 possible endings.
    • I created a custom markup language to handle the game's events and branching paths.
    • The game was released for the Nintendo Switch, and I implemented the Nintendo SDK.

    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...