Spooklands is a survival one-finger shooter for mobile devices. In Spooklands, you must master the control scheme and survive the nightmare hordes in three scenarios: Amazonia, Spider’s Nest and Necropolis. It’s a recoil based control, where you tap to shoot in the direction you want, and that also sends you moving backwards.

A step up from Luderia’s previous title, Spooklands used the much more robust cocos2d-x framework on top of Marmalade SDK. The project was also much more data-driven – waves of monsters were put together by our game designer in a simple Python tool that serialized all the data to protobuf files. The game also had achievements and high score boards integrated through Game Center and Google Play.

Company: Luderia
Languages: C++ (Game), Python (Tools)
Technology used: Marmalade SDK, cocos2d-x, Box2D
Platforms: iOS, Android
Released in: 2014