COFFEE WITH CRYPTIDS
ROLE
UI Designer
DESCRIPTION
A relaxed game about managing a café for creatures of urban myth and legend, Coffee with Cryptids is a light management/simulation game focussed on customisation and story, with the player growing closer to the various cryptids and learning their stories as the game goes on.
YEAR
2022 (To be released)
GENRE
Management/Simulation Game
PLATFORM
PC
UI DESIGN
On this project I was tasked with User Interface Design. I began by first assessing the needs of our UI, what information needed to be displayed, how much needed to be displayed at once, etc., then I made a mock-up of the main HUD. I deemed this the most important part to create since it would act as the 'root' from which all the other menu's would branch off, so if it wasn't fit for purpose it would compromise the usability of the rest of the UI. After making this mock-up (using an image taken from our moodboard from the game Manor Café by GAMEGOS with asset work done by RetroStyle Games) I worked in implementing it in-engine, as can be seen in the above gallery. After getting the Main HUD implemented (at least from a technical standpoint) I moved onto the submenus, where I am still currently progressing.
