When Ski Lifts Go Wrong

Three months of Unity migration and mobile adaptation, preparing Hugecalf Studios' physics puzzler for the Epic Games Store on Windows, Android and iOS.

Puzzle / Physics
PC & Mobile
Engine Migration

Duration: 3 months
Engine Upgrade: Unity 2018 to Unity 6 LTS
Target Releases: Epic Games Store: Windows, Android, iOS

Steam Nintendo Switch

Unity

Epic Games

Apple

Android

After Epic Games approached Hugecalf Studios about bringing When Ski Lifts Go Wrong to its store, we spent three months upgrading the physics puzzler and preparing Windows, Android and iOS versions together. The Epic Games Store releases are planned for October. Ocean View Games handled the engine migration, mobile gameplay and interface adaptation, optimisation and store integration. QA was handled separately by the Hugecalf team. The existing Steam and Nintendo Switch releases provided the starting point; this engagement did not produce new builds for those stores. Read the full case study for the dependency updates, shared platform architecture and side-by-side gameplay checks behind the port.

Gallery

When Ski Lifts Go Wrong gameplay - low-poly snowboarder character outside an alpine log cabin lodge

When Ski Lifts Go Wrong build mode - blueprint construction grid with a structural truss connecting two gondola stations and a planned cable path

When Ski Lifts Go Wrong gameplay - Drag Bridge level fail state with a snowboarder ragdoll thrown against a cliff face

When Ski Lifts Go Wrong gameplay - Round Island level showing twin gondola stations on a floating cliff connected by player-built truss bridges

When Ski Lifts Go Wrong gameplay - The Cannon level showing a low-poly alpine setting with skier ragdoll physics and on-screen control HUD

When Ski Lifts Go Wrong gameplay - The Grand Gondola level showing a large wooden truss tower with gondolas on a cable across a snowy mountain

Our Contributions

Unity 2018 to Unity 6

Updated deprecated code, Odin Inspector and custom shaders. Side-by-side play comparisons with the original confirmed gameplay consistency without physics retuning.

Adapted for Phones and Tablets

Added tap-and-drop construction, on-screen controls and a mobile tutorial in every supported language. Mobile builds reached 150MB and 60fps on target hardware.

Three Epic Games Store Versions

Prepared Windows, Android and iOS versions from one shared repository, using preprocessor directives and assembly definitions to separate platform-specific code.