Gavin Shrader

My Work

Infinite Islands

While I was learning iOS development several years ago I published a SpriteKit game called "Infinite Islands", the style of the game is simple pixel art and the game features collisions, sound, in-game progression, a global leaderboard built with the GameCenter API, settings, and a day/night and weather system to create ambience.

Infinite Islands is available on the App Store.

Rebound

Rebound was the first iOS game I ever created. This game featured infinite waves of enemies, a custom physics simulator that allowed the player to bounce on trampolines to move around the world, and a handful of other cool features like leaderboards, retro graphics, and background music composed by my friend.

I built this project 5 years ago, before I started using Git version control. Unfortunately I've since lost the codebase and cannot upload new builds to the app store, lesson learned!

Miscellaneous Prototypes

Over the last few years I've experimented with a few iOS prototypes including UIKit productivity and fitness apps, and a SpriteKit based Tilemap rendering system.

As of now I haven't landed on a specific project to focus on, but I plan on taking the best ideas from these various prototypes and combining them into one useful project to focus on building and shipping.

JavaScript Tilemap Simulator

Last year when I was learning JavaScript I built this simple tilemap project to test 60fps rendering on web, mouse and touch input, and basic web graphics. This tilemap is a prototype project that serves to test and demonstrate rendering smooth graphics in a browser, but it could be expanded into a full game in the future.

Here is an interactive demo.