Mobile App & Video Game • User Interface • Prototyping • Illustration
Prickles' Patrol
Project Overview
Fall 2023
Prickles' Patrol is a video game, accompanied by a mobile app, aimed to educate users on the effects of forest fires, their increased activity, and severity over the past two decades, and forest fire safety & prevention. The companion app serves as an educational hub, while the game provides players with a more interactive and hands on experience. Users play as Prickles, a friendly hedgehog & nature scout, who must collect & extinguish all potential fire starting items in order to save his forest!
The project was featured, during SIGGRAPH 2024, in the 13th Annual Faculty Submitted Student Work Exhibit.
My Roles
UI/UX Lead • Brand Identity & Design • Modeling
For this project, I designed & implemented assets for the companion app & game's user interface, created wireframes & a functional prototype for the companion app, and collaborated on the physical computing for the game's user interface.
Contributions
Project Manager : Marlowe Martensen
Game Development : Ryan Kuo
Visual & Audio Effects : Ryan Kuo, Gabriella Moreno, Marlowe Martensen
3D Asset Design & World Building : Gabriella Moreno, Kosi Udeh, Ryan Kuo, Marlowe Martensen
Concept Sketches
These are my initial design ideas for the companion app & game assets as well as an early iteration of the game's logo.
I was very interested in a stylized hand-drawn art style and incorporating a camping & scout theme, using badges, maps, and wood planks. The assets displayed in the companion app served as an early iteration of the final game's UI.
Mobile App Prototyping Process
The design process for the app began with researching safety manuals and camping handbooks to design an informational app, structured like a physical handbook/safety guide. Having created various low fidelity wireframes to determine the most successful UI/UX design, I used our results to create the final prototype.
Mobile App Walk-Through
Providing data on recent forest fire activity, examples of affected areas, and a summary of the game's objective, the app educates users on the causes & effects of wildfires, simultaneously providing them with methods regarding fire prevention.
Users can find a map of the game's camp grounds and corresponding tasks to be completed in each area.
Game UI Assets
Refining the mobile app's UI, adding detailed illustrative qualities, resulted in the finalized game's UI.
Game Trailer/Demo
The following video, created by another project member, demonstrates the functionality of the game, user interface, and displays the game's environment & other assets.