TEAM UP AND FIGHT YOKAI

You (and ideally a friend) get thrown into steampunk-inspired japan, that got overrun by yokai - japanese spirits. By passing a deadly disk between each other, you can blaze through any enemy or obstacle that shows up in your way. Thanks to our entire world being sculpted with voxels in a custom engine, you can achieve mayhem the likes of which you've never seen before!

General AI Design

Within this project I've designed and balanced most enemies. The proces we've used was research japanese Yokai, see if the gameplay mechanics support this enemy and from there on build enemy designs using flowcharts & feature breakdown later on balancing the variables and we did that by doing a ton of playtests. We focussed on a specific types of enemies, so we could provide a lot of variety.

Spider Enemy

The focus on the spider enemy for example was on range. I needed to make sure that the player always had time to react after the spider shoots her web, because the player didn't always have the projectile; it should feel a bit more fair than usual to avoid the enemy.

Spider Enemy (GIF):

Making a Single-player mode for a co-op focussed game

This game was initially only meant to be played with two players, but this limited the amount of potential players we needed on Itch.io to get useful and plentyful feedback. I wanted to show my team that implementing single player with all the mechanics we currently have isn't a risk; So, to make a simple playtest, I've hid the second player at the same place as the first player and made the controls the same. This faked a singe-player mode and the players found it fun; proving that it is an asset to have in the game. After that I discussed it with a programmer to make it more organized and he fixed it.

Single-player mode (GIF):

UI/UX Design

My job was to create the UI in the pre-production fase of the project, with a lot of unknowns still being present. This proved to be quite difficult in terms of working on UI/UX, since the first part was mostly concepting. Later on, based on the just created concept, I've started the UI/UX process explained below.

• Created menu flow through flowcharts with multiple iterations
• Explored and designed the Taste and Satisfaction Maps for our game.


Designed mockups with interaction to playout the flow and see what is missing from said flow. I've used the program Axure XP, which is made for interactive designs.


Created a Journey Map with persona to see who the target audience is based on previously done research and research on how to make a journey map. This process, like many tasks related to UI/UX were new to me, but following GDC talks and a lot of iterations made sure that it worked out well.