Illustrated menus over a live cell shaded background set a comic tone.

• Menu animations and transitions are dynamic.

Yaiba's HUD is always animated, alive and reactive to gameplay.

• A complex expandable health bar has multiple states and power meters.
• Bespoke boss health bars with unique animation.
• Animated scoreboards and personal record displays.
• A combo counter with input history and trainer.
• Comic styled 2D flip book video comms.
• Full screen combat feedback.
• Dynamic overlays for character introduction and cinematics.
• Custom color grading and post process fx combine to make Cyber Vision.

We created a tiered hint system to ease players into Yaiba's complex combat mechanics.

• Modal popups explain new mechanics to beginner players.
• Spatial prompts remind experienced players of important actions.
• HUD prompts reintroduce rarely used abilities that may be useful.
• Video and audio feeds give unintrusive time sensetive hints.

Animated comic interfaces were created to display progression, collectible and high scores systems.

• Every level ends by racking up combined area scores in an ramping display.
• Upgrades can be purchased through a unique tiered skill tree.
• Looted items and powers can be inspected in the equipment screen.
• Interactive collectibles are stored in the database screen.

Beat the game to play a unique side-scroller mode inspired by the classic Ninja Gaiden on NES.

• I designed, animated and scripted original retro-inspired titles, cinematics and the animated HUD.