"NO SHAKE!"

"NO SHAKE!"

The core experience of No Shake comes from acting out a familiar but usually forbidden impulse: trying to make a vending or gacha machine give you what you want by moving the whole machine. In this game, that impulse becomes the control scheme. Instead of using a joystick or keyboard, players carefully tilt the entire cabinet in four directions to guide a gacha ball toward its target. The motions is full-bodied, clumsy, and strangely delicate. The player is rewarded only through careful balance and controlled movement; shake too hard, lose control, or treat the machine too aggressively, and the ball dies in the game. This tension between temptation and restraint is the point of the interaction. The game would lose much of its meaning with a conventional controller, because the experience depends on the weight, scale, and absurd physicality of the vending-machine interface.

Once the physical machine existed, it still needed a digital interior, because despite all appearances, we were not actually building furniture! I began by sketching the level layout, then created the 3D models, UV maps, and visual assets for the game world. I textured the models in Substance Painter with realistic but pixel-art-inspired PBR materials, then developed the playable scene in Unity using the HDRP. The result was a tiny, moody miniatur dungeon hidden inside the body of a vending machine. By tilting and rocking the cabinet, players could watch the gacha ball they were trying to "purchase" travel through a trap-filled miniature environment on its way to the goal. In other words, the machine did not simply dispense a prize! It made the prize go on a dangerous little journey first. :D