Dang Tuan Anh

Core Concept

Bombs create both opportunity and danger. Every placement changes the player’s available space, possible routes, and exposure to enemies.

Core Loop

↻ loops back to “Read the Arena”

Design Pillars

Systems

Bomb Capacity

How many bombs the player can drop at once. More bombs, more pressure — but a smaller safe grid.

Blast Range

How far one explosion reaches. Longer range clears more, but leaves the player more exposed.

Movement Speed

How fast the player can get out of their own blast, or reposition when an enemy closes in.

Destructible Blocks

Crates that block a path until the player blows them up. Breaking one is a choice, not an accident.

Enemy Pressure

Enemies, mini-bosses, and bosses that force the player to keep moving instead of camping a safe tile.

Keys and Gates

Exit keys the player must find before the level lets them out — ties movement to a clear goal.

Equipment and Abilities

Forge upgrades and active abilities the player picks between runs, changing how they solve the same grid.

Player Progression

Campaign worlds, skill points, and unlocks that give short runs a reason to add up to something.

Bomb Variants

The bomb itself comes in different elements. Each one changes what the blast does, not just how it looks.

Default

Fire

Frost

Thunder

Toxic

Nature

Water

Holy

Shadow

Void

Magma

Clockwork

Level Design

Levels are designed around route planning, blast timing, limited safe space, and increasing spatial pressure.

1Player spawn

2Enemy spawn

3Safe area

4Destructible route

5Choke point

6Potential trap

7Level objective

Built from BlastFuse's real tile art — floor, crates, lava, bush, exit gate. A layout example, not a specific shipped level.

• 1Player spawn
• 2Enemy spawn
• 3Safe area
• 4Destructible route
• 5Choke point
• 6Potential trap
• 7Level objective

Same layout, reskinned for the Frost and Space campaign worlds — the grid logic stays identical, only the tile set changes.

Asset Gallery

A closer look at the art and UI system behind BlastFuse — enemies, world NPCs, and the button component reused across every menu.

Enemies

16 enemy types across the campaign, each reading differently at a glance so players can tell threats apart mid-run.

Ash Stalker

Bomb Slime

Bush Lurker

Clockwork Bomber

Crystal Beetle

Ember Sprite

Flying Hex Mask

Forest Trickster

Frost Totem

Fuse Bandit

Iron Brute

Mole Digger

Molten Warden

Phase Wisp

Shield Knight

Void Caster

World NPCs

Menu and hub characters players talk to between runs — shop, upgrades, skill tree, quests, and world portals.

Shop

Upgrade Forge

Skill Tree

Quest Giver

Boss Fight

Adventure Portal

Boss Portal

World Map Portal

UI Button States

One button component, reused everywhere, with distinct normal, hover, select, and disabled states so it always reads correctly on a touch screen.

Base

Menu

Normal

Menu

Hover

Menu

Select

Menu

Focus

Menu

Disabled

Primary

Play

Normal

Play

Hover

Play

Select

Play

Disabled

Danger

Delete

Normal

Delete

Hover

Delete

Select

Delete

Disabled

Production and Release

“Growing Up” follows a boy who avoids housework and disappoints his mother, until he recognizes his own mistake and decides to change — a short story about responsibility as the first sign of growing up.

Production Pipeline

This wasn't a game, but it built skills I use in game production anyway: explaining ideas visually, telling a story, managing how assets depend on each other, working inside a team, iterating, and keeping scope under control.