Heistopia

Heistopia is a space shooter game built in 2022 as part of the same exploratory effort that produced Juicy Slices and eventually Alignium. The goal was to test whether shooter mechanics — waves of enemies, escalating difficulty, score multipliers — could be layered onto a product discovery experience.

Developed in Unity as a mobile WebGL demo and published on itch.io. While the genre didn't map as cleanly to commerce as the merge mechanic later used in Alignium, the project contributed to the broader research into what makes gamified shopping feel native rather than gimmicky.