2D PLATFORM SHOOTER
POPCORN PROJECTION
Turn falling kernels into flavoured popcorn inside a runaway projector.
// PLAY
PLAY IN BROWSER
Collect tickets, switch flavours and keep the projector full. The browser build opens directly inside the portfolio.
// SPINE
SPINE ANIMATION
The character is painted, split into parts, then boned and animated in Spine. Step 02 runs the real Spine runtime in your browser — hit the buttons to play her animations.
LOADING RIG ♥
// 3D → 2D
3D → 2D COVER PROCESS
The cover art was made in one day as a cel-shaded 3D-to-2D piece — a tiny film set built in Blender, rendered once from a locked camera, then finished as a 2D image. Notes below are condensed from the original TapTap devlog.
Decide what the cover must say and gather references: the game is Popcorn Projection, so the core elements are popcorn, movies and film reels — a reference board collects the in-game props.
No time for full hand-painting, so simple geometry is laid out in Blender. Key trick for 3D-to-2D: lock the camera view FIRST, then arrange the blocks — only that one angle has to look good, overlaps and clipping don't matter.
Going for a retro-cinema mood with red as the main colour: block in flat colours to place the values, then build the toon shader.
Swap the blockout for low-poly models on the same composition — quick to build: no engine import, no poly budget, no UVs to unwrap.
Same shader on every model, but the light/dark colours are tuned per object to separate foreground from background; a depth-of-field camera keeps the popcorn in focus.
Title and text are set in Figma — and since the render is now a flat 2D image, the lighting can be retouched directly. The start screen is born!
// ABOUT
ABOUT THE GAME
Popcorn Projection is a fast-paced 2D platform shooter set inside a movie projector. Strike the falling corn kernels with lightning to pop them into different flavours and fill up the projector — it rewards you with a movie ticket. Rich-flavoured popcorn calls for an emotional film, so finish tuning the projector and earn a movie of your own!
Made with Unity for the TapTap Game Jam.
// TEAM