Finish Line Labs · 2026 – Present
Tinikling
A rhythm game of the Philippine bamboo dance: your fingers are the feet, stepping in and out of the clapping poles to Filipino folk songs.
Tinikling is a rhythm game of the Philippine bamboo dance, for iPhone. Two poles clap together and tap apart on the beat, and your fingers are the feet: tap outside the poles on the clap, step into the gap on two and three, then out the other side, and be anywhere but the gap when the poles snap shut. The steps are the tinikling step as Philippine schools teach it, set to five folk songs arranged for rondalla. A Journey runs from your lola's yard to the town fiesta, with a rival dancing each song first; Versus puts two players at either end of one phone, and online rooms let up to eight friends dance the same song with live scores.
The game was built in Unity with Claude Code. The paper collage look, the places and the store art came out of a concept lab I built alongside it, and the songs were arranged and rendered from the same tempo map the steps are charted on, so every step lands on its note.
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