Developer
Billy (William) Katz, he/him, attended NYU from 2009-2013 where he took classes at the NYU Game Center. He worked profesionally as a software engineer in New York City and then Seattle, until 2021 when he quit his job to pursue a career in game design. After completing the University of Washington game design certificate program in 2021 he started working fulltime on Shift Shaft until its release in March 2022.
Recently, he started working on an unannounced project at Hourglass Escapes, an award winning escape room company located in Seattle. In his free time, Billy likes to cook and plays ultimate frisbee where he won the National Championsips in 2019.
Art
Cori Huang
Bailey Zanheiser
Music
Barry Sebastian
Press/buisness contact
wfk.391@gmail.com
Social
Releases
Shift Shaft available now on the iOS App Store
Shift Shaft
Shift Shaft is a strategic match-3 puzzle game that adds a mind-bending spin on a classic genre by allowing players to rotate the board. This simple mechanic creates endless complexity and makes Shift Shaft enjoyable for newcomers and veterans alike. In addition to the rotation mechanic, players control a miner that is in the board itself and can only move by tapping away rocks and rotating the board. Players complete level objectives to unlock the exit and move to attack or avoid monsters.
Most runs end in failure but that’s okay beacuse the Mineral Spirits resurrect the player at Basecamp. At Basecamp, players can upgrade their stats and improve their item pool with new and powerful items.
The game culminates in an intense boss fight with a gem-eating spider. This fight tests the player’s skills, ingenuity and overall mastery of the game, do you have what it takes?
Articles
Touch Arcade Game Of the Week: Shift Shaft
- Jared Nelson
Marketing Material
Gameplay Teaser
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