Factsheet
Developer:
Uppon Hill
Based in Sydney, Australia
Founding date:
April 3, 2017
Website:
http://www.upponhill.com
Press / Business contact:
adam@upponhill.com
Social:
twitter.com/upponhill
twitter.com/adamcyounis
insigniagame.tumblr.com
Skype
Releases:
Insignia
Phone:
Description
Uppon Hill is an independent studio based in Western Sydney consisting of solo-developer, Adam Younis.
History
Early historyDuring his early years in secondary education, Adam fantasized about working in various game development roles. Concept Artist, Animator, Writer, Designer. Aside from appropriating assignments to fit some game-related subject where possible, Adam usually spent time filling the backs of workbooks with fanart from his favourite Squaresoft titles. He took an interest in software development during his later high-school years, learning Visual Basic through school and Action Script in his free time, which he used to create and sell characters for the Flash based online community, Whirled.
After thatAdam graduated from the University of Sydney with a bachelors degree in Design Computing, dedicating this time to understanding IX/UX practice and its application to games. Adam continued to enjoy 2D animation and programming whenever possible, experimenting with C#, Java, HTML5, CSS, JS and PHP. In the four years of undergraduate study, Adam developed a number of entries to the Ludum Dare online game jam contest, as well as a variety of Java based Android games, following the mobile boom trends of infinite runner and puzzle titles.
Now...In 2014, while taking the 90 minute bus ride home one night, Adam sketched the first portrait of Armin. Over the following three years, spent working as a User Experience designer in Sydney, Adam found himself returning to Armin, drip-feeding the world around the character with an hour or two of designs every few weeks between other hobbies. In 2016, Adam committed more of his free time to making the game a reality, finally settling on Unity as a development platform. Adam left his role as a UX designer in February 2017 to work full-time on the "smith syllabus" project, soon dubbed Insignia.
Projects
Videos
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Awards & Recognition
- "Crowd Favourite - Insignia" - AIT Game Day, 13 October 2017
Team & Repeating Collaborator
Adam Younis
Developer, Proprietor
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