Invaders Isolation

Inspiration Our inspiration came from games like Bogos Binted, Buckshot Roulette, and several other high-pressure card games. We wanted to take that intense, risk-based decision style and transform it into a battle against a scammer trying to steal your data and identity.

What We Learned This project pushed us to learn completely new tools in a very short time. We learned the basics of Unity, Blender, card-game logic, UI design, animations, and collaborative development. Working under pressure taught us problem-solving, time management, and how to stay calm when things break.

How We Built It We built Invaders Isolation as a team, dividing tasks such as card design, 3D modeling, scripting, UI work, and mechanics balancing. None of us had used Unity or Blender before, so we learned everything from scratch within 24 hours. We used GitHub for version control, which helped us collaborate — until we experienced a rollback that erased several hours of progress. Even though we lost work, we rebuilt it together and kept going.

Challenges We Faced The toughest part of the project was staying awake all night and continuously fixing issues while learning two major tools for the first time.

Other challenges included: Recovering from a GitHub rollback that deleted hours of work Re-building lost features quickly Understanding Unity’s object system, prefabs, and UI Creating usable assets in Blender with almost no prior experience Despite all of this, we pushed through and finished a playable game.

What’s Next

We want to continue expanding Invaders Isolation by improving the features we lost during the rollback and adding: More cards and decision paths Better visuals and animations New scammer behaviors and endings Possibly a continuation or “next chapter” version of the game

We’re proud of what we accomplished, and if we hadn’t been limited to only 24 hours, we never would have learned Unity and Blender this quickly.