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Cheese Chase

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Participate in "Weekly Game Jam" created in a group of 4 within 1 week
Platform: PC (Unity Engine)
Game Genre: Turn based platformer

Roles:
  •  UI Design (Background, Logo Design, Menus, HUD)
  •  UX Design (Concepts/Mockup/Wireframing, feedback)
  •  Co-Producer

Elevator Pitch:
Cheese Chase is a multiplayer turn based platformer, where 4 players - 3 hungry mice & 1 cheese run & hop around in a 2D playground to grand chase and tag game.

Things achieved from the Game Jam:
  •  drawing backgrounds
  •  work in a tight schedule
  •  trying out new style & coloring

Playable at itch.io: https://squishyblob.itch.io/cheese-chase

Main Menu & HUD Mockups

With collaborating with the lead artist in the team, we decided to go for a Cuphead style where the color are saturated color and 1930s cartoon. Where I dig deep on the Cuphead's switch advertising to gain some idea on the main menu concept. While the gameplay itself is a 1 vs 3 game, we choose to take an approach of referencing the Smash Brothers for the HUD.

Art Direction: Cuphead Style, Cartoony
Software: illustrator

Color Testing

As we only have one week on creating the whole game, our team's lead artist has to focus on creating the character concept and animating the characters. Therefore, I was assigned to test out some colors for the character and HUD. At first we tried to match the color palette with Smash Brothers as players would be more familiar with. However, when I was doing the color testing, I found out yellow color would blend with the cheese character, so we decided to change it to pink instead.

Software: illustrator

Cheese Chase Color Testing
Cheese Chase Color Testing

Backgrounds Design

As time is limited for game jam, I stepped up to work on some background designs for the main menu and use in the in game menu as well. Here are some background designs that I have done.

Software: illustrator

Final UI Designs

Here are all the final UI designs implemented in Cheese Chase with the help of out programmer/technical artist to flash out the art style using post processing in Unity.

Software: illustrator, Unity

@Created by Daisy Chan 2021