We are very happy about this honor for our work by the german kids media award golden sparrow. An article can be found on the festival website:
https://www.goldenerspatz.de/preistraeger-2021 (DE)
A video recording of the ceremony of the digital category can be viewed below.
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Golden Sparrow Award 2021
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German Videogame Awards
Our game is honored with the award for the best family game at the german videogame awards on April 13, 2021.
We are very pleased about this honor for our work. An article article on the website of the German Computer Game Award can be found here: (DE)
https://deutscher-computerspielpreis.de/gewinner/el-hijo-a-wild-west-tale/
A video recording of the award show in the category best family game can be viewed below. There the nominees will be presented and the winner got presented. -
Interview @ Life After SAE
For the german Podcast Life After SAE, I was interviewed about my way into the games industry. It was a very pleasant chat.
The podcast is operated by 2 former university students and is an interesting platform for information on starting a career after completing a creative degree.
The podcast is available on common platforms such as Spotify, Google Podcasts, Overcast or RadioPublic.
Please find below the link to my episode (30min duration):
https://anchor.fm/lifeaftersae/episodes/24-Stephan-Schritz–Jobangebot-beim-zocken-esn6tk -
Review of 2020
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It was a different and strange year. The pandemic, starting from March, changed things and put some challenges in our way. Work in the office transformed to home office, direct communication transits to Voice/Video-Chats.
Our team at Honig Studios focused this year on the last tasks and polishing of our stelth game El Hijo.
Wrapping up our most ambitious and complex project and making it ready for the players was the main task for this year and an exciting process.
To master the new decentralized work environment, called home office, a constant and easy connection and adaptation of our schedules was needed. All desks need to be working perfect and been optimized for the day by day tasks. The Builds where running on a remote server that needed fast and easy access to compile and run the games. All that was successfully achieved in our team together.
Personally this new environment made it possible to see the day by day work from another perspective. Regular exercise on the fresh air and breaks, are important, not only for the creative jobs. The human cycle benefits a lot and the mind get energy for new ideas. This is super imported.
Since the 4th of December El Hijo is available on PC and Google Stadia. After a short celebration, we are already working on wrapping up the console versions of the game for the upcoming release. At the same time we are also working full power on the production of our rhythm game Impossible Bottles.
The upcoming year will be exciting, the wheel of innovation runs continuously. Beside of holographic displays and new AR Modules, I wish that we use our power for a healthier planet. Only by that, we will have the time to enjoy our most loved things.
Have a successful and good new year!
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El Hijo – Advent Calendar
This calender was made for “El Hijo” to give players hints and gameplay. The campaign was visible on a daily via social media Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Navigation:
01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12,
13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24Day 1 – Two days until Release Day 2 – One day until Release Day 3 – Release Day Day 4 – The Beginning Day 5 – Inspire Children Day 6 – Discovered is not Caught
If you get seen, it doesn’t mean you are lost.
Take your chance and try to escape. But be aware, encounters will checkout near Hideouts.Day 7 – The Environment is your Friend.
Use your Bird to discover Hiding and Interaction Spaces that help you to solve the levels.Day 8 – Catch the right Attention
Make sure encounters will hear the noise, that should distract them. But be careful Noise can also guide them the way to you.Day 9 – The Slingshot isn’t always an option.
What about a Windup-Toy?Day 10 – Kids help each other Day 11 – Unlock some nice Concept Art in the Gallery by facing the shown challenges. Day 12 – Coffins, your movable hideout Day 13 – Boss Encounters will use their minions to search for you. Day 14 – The Power of Chickens Day 15 -Unbreakable Day 16 – I have you in my Target Day 17 – A Sandstorm is coming Day 18 – Full speed ahead! Day 19 – Cacti are your useful helper in the desert. Day 20 – Coyotes use there sense to find El Hijo Day 21 – Mother is the best Day 22 – Let’s bring some colorful explosions to the desert Day 23 – The sombrero. Day 24 – Merry Christmas Thank you for watching the videos.
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El Hijo – A Wild West Tale
Dezember 2016 – Dezember 2020
El Hijo is a sealth game that is set in a western setting.El Hijo is a sealth game that is set in a western setting. You play a little boy who experienced a great adventure in the search for his mother. The task of the game is to have good timings and a personal approach in order to find and then belong back to the father in the city through the great desert.
Implementation: Unity3D, C#
Key Facts:
- Actor behaviours for a huge amount of skills that the player and the NPCs
- Target Detection and NPC behaviours depending on the gameplay
- Highly optimized addaptive music system and SFX managment
- Tool Development for Animation, Sound and Level Design
- Platform and Controller specific Feature implementation (Platform APIs, UserManagment, Controller functionality)
- Localisation for 28 languages incl. region specific typography
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Showreel (05/2020)
A short video that highlights some projects I was working on the last few years. Please find a full list of projects on the subpage ‘projects’ on this website.
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Masters Vision VR
In 2018, I worked for a few months on the projects “Monk by the Sea” (Casper David Friedrich) and “The Sun” (Edward Munch) as a programmer.
In April 2019 the installation based around the painting of Casper David Friedrich war released. It gives you a deep inside the meaning and process of making. From April up to and including June 2019, the project and installation was visible in the old National Gallery in Berlin.
In the project, I worked with volumetric film material and worked with brush shaders, among other things.
In the Sun you experience a psychedelic experience as part of the vision of Edward Munch’s painting.
A 360° video version is available in English, German and French on the ARTE website and via the ARTE360 app.
Links:
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Impossible Bottles
Juni 2017 – Heute
In this rhythm game you help a scientist to solve the energy problems of the earth with his invention. The task of the player is to move the robot to the music in order to create a cycle and thus energy for the people.
Features:
- Rhythm game
- Take control of a robot
- Generate electricity to the beat of the music
Own Contribution
- Programming of the Prototype
- Co-Programming the Production
- MIDI / music based gameplay with the highest timing precision on input and feedback
- Music- and SFX-Manager
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War on Prehis
The game is an ’80s style topdown stop motion shooter. All figures and the playing surface were physically produced and digitized as image sequences. The game pays homage to action figures and the worlds we imagined as children.
It was created as a leisure production over the last few years and is based on the action figure series of the same name from the independent toy manufacturer Goodleg Toys from Berlin. The coordination of the project, music and SFX was created by the dubbing studio OddOne Audio.
It’s available for free on the App Store and Google Play and does not contain any microtransactions or advertising. It’s all about the fun of the game.
Have fun playing.
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Place VR
A VR experience in which you can digitally visit the destroyed large synagogue of Aleppo.
The reconstruction of the synagogue was carried out in cooperation with developers from Syria and based on photographs of the building by locals.
In this project I was involved in programming camera functions, NPC behavior and small retouching of the image material.
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A Storks Journey
In the flight levels you fly with friends through tricky parkour. As an experience for the animated film of the same name, an extensive app was created for the mobile platforms. In ‘A Storks Journey’ the player takes part in the journey of the little sparrow Richard, who is going on his great adventure, the travel from Europe to Africa.
Kiki is made to dance to groovy beats. In a total of 16 levels, you make your way through varied levels with Richard, his friends Olga, Kiki and the pigeons. Thereby you contest challenges in 4 different game principles, which may require different things.
In the fish games you have to catch the right food for the birds. 
In the pigeon game you have to get the right messages from the pigeons. In the levels you can also find items with which the player can decorate his avatar. Synchronized with high score tables for each level and a total high score you can compete with players from all over the world.
There are numerous items for customization in the Avatar Editor. As a share feature, you can share images of an avatar with your friends. You can also watch teaser clips from the film in your own pigeon cinema.
The game is available free of charge for IOS and Android.
Clips from the film can be viewed in the cinema
