Readable combat
Threat, action, and result have to be legible at speed on a small screen.
Selected work
HAPZ CASE STUDY / HAPZ original — live on Google Play
Starborne Wings
An arcade space shooter built and published by HAPZ. Fast runs, readable combat, and touch controls designed for one-handed play.
Project At A Glance
- Genre
- Arcade space shooter
- Platform
- Android
- IP
- HAPZ original
The Experience
Arcade combat needs every movement, target, and impact to read in a fraction of a second.
A focused shooter needs simple controls, a readable combat space, and missions that continuously give players a clear reason to improve their ship and try again.
This is a HAPZ original. We own the IP, and the build is live on Google Play — design, code, art pipeline, store submission and updates all in-house.
PROJECT BRIEF
What the project needed, and what we owned.
- The problem
- A HAPZ original: an arcade space shooter designed for short, replayable one-handed sessions on mobile.
- HAPZ responsibility
- Everything. HAPZ owns the IP — design, code, art pipeline, store submission and updates.
- Technical challenges solved
- Touch flight handling tuned for immediate response; enemy waves, fuel and thruster pickups, scoring and mission pacing that reward a replay.
- Platform & technology
- Unreal Engine · Android
- Project status
- Released — live on Google Play
- Verified result
- Published on Google Play and maintained by HAPZ.
WHAT HAPZ DELIVERED
The work we owned on this build.
End-to-end delivery
Built and published by HAPZ from concept through to the Google Play listing, including art, gameplay, optimisation and store submission.
Arcade flight controls
Touch handling tuned for immediate readability rather than simulation fidelity, so the ship responds the moment a thumb moves.
Combat and progression
Enemy waves, fuel and thruster pickups, scoring, and mission pacing that give a reason to replay a run.
Unreal EngineAndroidHAPZ original IP
FROM THE GAME
Screens from the live build.
Production Conversation
What this kind of game asks of a production team.
Touch-first controls
The control scheme was designed for the device rather than ported onto it.
Session pacing
Short runs with visible progression, so a session ends wanting another.
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