Haven’s Toll: Doomslay
Game Design | Art Direction | UI/UX | 2D Art | UI Art
Haven’s Toll: Doomslay is a 2.5D side-scrolling dress-up mystery game where players analyze styles of cult members to build relationships and get information. Players take on the role of ‘Jackie’ and try to solve the mystery of their twin sister’s disappearance by infiltrating a doomsday cult annd, realizing that the doomsday that the cult predicts is real, the player has the choice to continue investigating the mystery, or to enjoy dressing up and making friends until the world ends.
Genre: 2.5D Narrative Dress-up game
Platform: PC, Mac, Browser
Engine/ Tools: Unity, Procreate, Adobe Photoshop
Team: 4 people, all game designers. Myself, a lead programmer/producer, a writer, and a technical artist/writer .
My Roles
Game Design
The main challenge when making this game was the time constraint against the amount of clothing options that had to be varied enough to keep the dress-up engaging. I used my experience as an art director to design how the clothes and accessories should be categorized in a way that both makes the game enjoyable as a dress up game (endless possibilities of combinations & unlockable choices), but also realistic with the timeline that we had.
UI/UX & UI Art
The dress-up UI took inspirations from 2000s-2010s dress-up games, but with more diegesis to place the interface itself into the game’s narrative.
The challenge was how to present the items options without using rows of buttons like a character customization page – hence the closet and mannequin interface.
See more details of my UI design for Haven’s Toll: Doomslay here.
I also did the art direction for Our Vanishing Summer - See more here.
I also did all of the 2D art for Our Vanishing Summer - See more here.
