Level Design

• Hand drew multiple top down layouts for selection.

• Whiteboxed the level flow and encounters, then developed the greybox to establish the initial atmosphere.

• Selected an asset pack and integrated the premade assets to build out the world.

• Adjusted the directional and sky lighting to create a red-themed environment.

UI Design

• Designed multiple iterations of the health and mana bars and implemented their widget functionality.

• Created noise-based drain effects for the health and mana bars using  the material graph. 

• Designed multiple iterations of the ability icons.

• Implemented UI visibility changes that revealed abilities as the player unlocked them.

• Designed and built a new boss bar with fade, expansion, and glow animations.

• Added a noise based drain effect to the boss bar.

• Created a keyboard input material that fills a progress bar while the player holds the button to consume the blood ball.

Tutorial

• Added a new tutorial area at the beginning of the map.

• Designed the tutorial’s level flow and determined when information should be introduced to the player.

• Helped create trigger boxes that advanced the tutorial prompts and unlocked HUD elements.