Icarus Run

Icarus Run: Your baby centaur will follow assist you on your journey.
Icarus Run: Run, jump, and fly to the top of the leaderboards!
Icarus Run: Collect treasures to increase your score and upgrade your items along the way.

Icarus Run is a side-scrolling endless runner developed by Atlantika Interactive inspired by other great mobile runners, such as CookieRun: OvenBreak, Subway Surfers, and Alto's Adventure.

Run, jump, and fly through the ruins of long forgotten places inspired by ancient Greek mythology.

Collect fragments of stars, coins, gems, and other valuable treasures along the way.

Test your skill to survive by avoiding dangerous obstacles, and test your mastery of the levels by hitting Star Pots along the way with your bow and arrows to up your score.

Use the various resources you collect to upgrade your wings, weapons, and pets to run even farther on your journey to the sun!

Gen AI

GenAI was able to get us quickly up and running with prototype assets for our levels, pick ups, and items for the player's avatar. Additionally, a number of our world's sound effects were created using GenAI.

How We Grew as Horizon Worlds Developers

Since this was our first project with more two developers on it, we had to manage periodically cloning the main world for the artists that weren't frequently writing scripts for the game. We were really surprised with how effective that ended up being to keep us all productive.

Once or twice a week we could make a new copy of the main world for the artists. They in turn could develop and review their assets in the clone and then save that work to a shared folder. Then those assets could be placed in the main world and would continue to receive updates as the artists would iterate and polish over time.

It was a remarkably straightforward process that worked out great for us!