Interfaces That Feel Alive

A pixel 2D top-down RPG set inside the mind of a soul at its lowest. You play as the self, venturing deep into your own mind to face guilt, misery, and everything in between, in search of eternal freedom. The themes draw from the Ashtavakra Gita. I designed and built it on my own as my BFA design thesis at USC. You can play it on itch.io.

Redesign and improve the pre-existing UI for Turtle Town, a 2D PC base-building defense game. The old interface was cluttered, and a lot of the tasks players needed to perform to really experience the game were hard to complete. My aim was to cut player confusion and frustration around those tasks, and make the interface feel far more elegant.

I ran three rounds of playtests and turned each round's friction into a concrete fix.

Rocket League is Psyonix's high-octane mashup of arcade soccer and vehicular mayhem. It launched in 2015 and went free-to-play in 2020, which only grew its community.

A self-initiated concept to grow community interest in Rocket League through Rocket Labs, giving players full control over the design of their cars: custom-designing their own decals or editing the ones the game provides. Rocket Labs merges the Item Shop and the Garage with community features built in, plus pre-launch in-game events and a new character introduced alongside it to add a layer of personification.