Hell Paso
diciembre 2014

I was hired by a company that was looking for someone to create a HTML5 slot game from just a comic in 2 months time.

This was my first slot machine game and no game design doc, guidelines, or specifications.
I had the server responses, the comic and a basic slot machine HTML5 template in Javascript.

TASKS

  • Sound Design: Sounds effects design, creation and specific adaptation for the game purpose.
  • Audio Programing: Audio logic design and implementation for the game in HTML5 (Javascript).
  • Game Programming: Game client development in Javascript.
  • Narrative design: Game narrative adapting the comic story to the game design and mechanics.
  • Image & Video: Assets extraction and generation from the comic in PDF (a lot of Photoshop), video edition and video effects (After Effects).
  • Animation: 2D animations (After Effects).
  • UI/UX Design: Design and development of the whole UX and UI of the game.

So first thing I did was read the comic like 4 or 5 times, analyzing not just the story with good detail but also characters and key scenes.

Then I designed the narrative for the slot mechanics to be something visually related with the comic and for, later, create the sprite animations, videos, sounds, look for proper music…

Last I developed the whole game in accordance with the mechanics designed and assets created.

It was pretty intense but also an amazing experience that allowed me to go along the whole game production pipeline by myself.
A very good chance to proof myself by using all my skills and talents in the same project.

I also had a lot of fun, specially with the bonuses intro and outro videos, animating a comic, I mean bringing life from still images is one of the best experiences I’ve ever had.

Skills used in this project

Sound Design

Game Programming

Audio Programming

Image & Video

Animation

Narrative Design

UI/UX Design

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