Constance Lim

Game Design | UIUX | Art

ABOUT

Constance Lim

Game Design | UIUX | Art

ABOUT

GAMES

UIUX

GAMES

UIUX

ALTERNATIVE

INTELLIGENCE

INFO

Visual Novel Game Interface Design

ROLE

UIUX Designer



DESCRIPTION

For this Game Design and User Interface project, we were tasked to either create a new concept or to improve on an existing game’s design in terms of the user interface. Based on the visual novel genre, the game prototype ‘Alternative Intelligence’ was created. Alternative Intelligence is a visual novel game where players teach an Artificial Intelligence about human emotions such as how to identify the emotions and how to handle them. This is so that the AI can become a counsellor capable of serving humanity.



BACKGROUND

TASK

In this project, I did the initial research, personas interviews, user testing and programming of the prototype on a game engine. This project dives deeper into game designing and user interface in games. From this project, I understood the idea of creating UIUX that can be both unique and familiar to players.



PROCESS

I have always been intrigued by the creativity of visual novels from many games. While I find the base reading of the game to be a bit boring, a lot of games have shown their ability to make the game fun by tying in either interesting options, variety to game events or pairing the visual novel with other game elements. Because of this, I wanted to try my hand on this visual novel, where the highlight of Alternative Intelligence is less reading and more options choosing as well as the unique
story.


CONCEPT

  • Initial research into the genre of visual novel.

  • Persona research into the the target audience for visual novel genre.

  • High-fidelity of the prototype, created inside Ren'py game engine.

  • Initial design for the character with Live2D physics (Done using Emofuri)

  • Initial research into the genre of visual novel.

  • Persona research into the the target audience for visual novel genre.

  • High-fidelity of the prototype, created inside Ren'py game engine.

  • Initial design for the character with Live2D physics (Done using Emofuri)

Full Documentation

Game Demo

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