Eleanor Harding is a product developer and supergeek who has been called the swiss army knife of tech. She is originally from South Africa and has a background in both development and design, helping her win numerous hackathons including the prestigious TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon and the Skype Codess hack for women in tech.

 

Before arriving in London, she created an indie game which won the Microsoft Imagine Cup and was the design engineer in the winning, all-female team in a competition to design and race scale F1 cars.

 

Eleanor is now the founder of a product development consultancy called Rigby/Rose where she spends her time doing what she loves, helping startups turn their big ideas into elegant products. In her spare time she looks for ways to enable people through technology, listens to a ridiculous number of audiobooks and networks furiously.

 

She’d also quite like to go to the moon.

 

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Orbit Indie Game

7 Apr, 2015
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Orbit is an award winning 2D action-adventure circular platform game set in space.

You play as Atlas, an astronaut who navigates and explores systems of tiny planets, fighting aliens to save humanity.

 

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1st Place at the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2014 SA National Finals

Orbit started out as a final year game design project, but has evolved far from there. This award winning Indie game is a 2D planet platformer, built in Unity. With this game, we competed in the 2014 Microsoft Imagine Cup, winning the SA National Finals and the Worldwide Skype Award for innovation and collaboration.

  • Orbit - GameplayOrbit – Gameplay
  • Orbit - Gameplay - Puzzle Element: climb the mushroom tree to escape the atmosphereOrbit – Gameplay – Puzzle Element: climb the mushroom tree to escape the atmosphere
  • Orbit - Gameplay - Weapon: Laser gun, direct relationship between weapon pickup and factor of funOrbit – Gameplay – Weapon: Laser gun, direct relationship between weapon pickup and factor of fun
  • Orbit - Gameplay - Spacially aware alien beingsOrbit – Gameplay – Spacially aware alien beings
  • Orbit - Gameplay - Enemies: Claspers and Clasper EggsOrbit – Gameplay – Enemies: Claspers and Clasper Eggs
  • Orbit - Gameplay - Art StyleOrbit – Gameplay – Art Style
  • Orbit - Gameplay - Gameplay Element: Navigate the asteroid belt to enter the planetOrbit – Gameplay – Gameplay Element: Navigate the asteroid belt to enter the planet
  • Orbit - Gameplay - Enemy: Igor the slug, toxic slime inflicts damageOrbit – Gameplay – Enemy: Igor the slug, toxic slime inflicts damage
  • Orbit - Gameplay - Weapons: Flamethrower, direct connection between weapon pickup and factor of funOrbit – Gameplay – Weapons: Flamethrower, direct connection between weapon pickup and factor of fun

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Winner of the Skype Award for Innovation and Collaboration

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Winner of the Microsoft Imagine Cup SA

Created by The Super Sea Dragons

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Daniel Esterhuizen

Digital Jedi

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Eleanor Harding

The Craftsmaster

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Emile Hay

Mr Maestro

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Gerhard Janse Van Rensburg

Coding Dynamo

User Journey

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Project Responsibilities

User Experience
& Interface Designer

Business Strategy
& Marketing

Game Design
& Content Art