Archer : Danger Phone
East Side Games
https://www.archerdangerphone.com/
Mobile
I worked remotely with East Side Games as the Lead UI/UX designer to help them get Archer into a shippable state. I created illustrations, color themes and icons, new UX flows for features they wanted to add, and even helped them out on their website design! I got to implement and animate sequences in the Unity game engine.
Live events
Archer:Danger Phone had a lot of live events going on throughout the week. We wanted to surface some rewards to incentivize players to play in these events. I had to create the polished mockup version alongside a few options for how the flow felt.
Generator upgrades
In the game there are many important ways for the player to progress through each mission. Upgrading the Generators in the game allows the player to do just that! The problem to solve here was figuring out how the game tells you when a room is ready to upgrade, how it looks, and how information is changed. I opted to copy how the normal rooms collected upgrades and experience, fill the circle up with a green to show experience, and to arrange the information about the room in a cleaner way.
Agent upgrades
I used a similar approach for displaying agent upgrades. Re-organizing information, making upgrade stats clear, and adding a few nice things, like showing how to get a certain agent skin, and even an informational popup that informs the player of what skins actually do made for a cleaner experience overall.
Bulletin system
I got the chance to design how a new feature worked called Bulletins. It was an inbox system where the game could send promotions, compensation rewards, and any other patch note or updates the Devs wanted to inform the players of. The feature is meant to allow the players to access their rewards quickly, and attempt to make sure they get them before deleting any messages. This is currently in the live game!
