Some UI responsibilities included: planning, designing, implementing, and aggressively optimising assets for custom menu systems that needed to function flexibly within harsh hardware constraints. 2d sprites and animation sequences were created with Photoshop before being imported into Unity for use in a single UI texture atlas for the entire game.

The multi-platform nature of the game necessitated great care to ensure a unified design across a variety of device resolutions, aspect ratios, and hardware compatible file formats. Finally, the menus were vigorously bug tested and polished with animated elements in a fashion that allowed for independent screen triggering as well as staged scenarios like tutorials.

As we were aiming to support low and mid-range phones, the art style had to be simplistic enough to allow device processing power and memory usage be saved for procedural generation and physics system requirements. This meant models were stylised through shape, smoothing groups, and vertex colours rather than detailed textures, high-poly models, or fancy lighting.

Gameplay assets, environments, props, and character accessories were split into modular meshes designed to batch dynamically inside Unity; reducing draw calls significantly. Every 3D object in the game used a single (and tiny) texture sheet made up of colour swatches, in addition to the optimisation benefits this allowed quick and complete colour palette overhauls.

Content re-colouring, unique environment assets, sounds effects, and visual gameplay modifications were used as additional rewards for unlocking items and characters. Items served as player chosen equipment providing gameplay mechanics and passive bonuses to be experimented with and combined for synergistic results.

Gameplay consisted of navigating procedurally generated levels, dodging enemies, collecting power ups, managing items, and desperately trying to out-climb the fire using a ragdoll physics character.

Levels were generated through a customisable tree generating system that outputted segments based on defined zoning parameters; densities, chances, repeat chances, sizes, locations, proximities, lengths, etc. Countless zones were created as templates, tagged with variable difficulty ranges, and given unique art characteristics; weather, skyboxes, lighting, colours, etc.

As tree assets and every gameplay object could be arranged in any order, a multi-directional modular asset set was crafted to snap together perfectly at angled increments - allowing a vast number of unique arrangements. The entire tree generation was created bespoke to batch draw all it's calls dynamically to remain performant on low-end mobile hardware. The gameplay system layers on top aimed to provide endless but fair layouts that provide emergent gameplay opportunities to compliment the entertaining and sometimes unpredictable player physics.

This website was designed as a 2d representation of gameplay whilst advertising the product and it's development. As the user scrolled down the homepage they would be presented with preset scenes detailing gameplay features. A series of repeatable textures and re-usable assets could be arranged to populate an endless tree for the varying page heights.