Fantasy Racing Sim ⚡ Apple Arcade 2023

Available on Apple Arcade!
Website｜GREZZO’s Website

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Genre: Simulation Racing Game
Platforms: iOS, macOS, Apple TV
My Timeline: About 1.2 years
Team: About 45 people
My Role: UI UX Designer
Tools: Unity, Illustrator, After Effects, Photoshop, C#

Highlights:
•Beyond design I also did development and implementation of UI and effects
• Wrote shaders and got to work with 3D lighting and materials
• Supervised English version

Overview

JET DRAGON is a unique fantasy racing simulation game where you raise, breed, and race dragons while managing a team of dragon riders and upgrade your flying Towership base and aim for the top of the racing world!

The floating fantasy world of Venerusa is composed of many descending layers of islands bathed in an otherworldly light called Spiritus. You play as a young dragon racer named Eleanor, the daughter of a legendary rider who mysteriously disappeared many years ago. Following in your father’s footsteps, you train dragons and riders of your own and take to the skies to fight for sponsors, supporters, and racing glory!

My Contributions

My main tasks were improving the existing UI of the game with new effects and animations as well as creating new interfaces for updates to the game.

Rankup: UI Design, Animation, Effects, Shader, Implementation
Stage & Character Select: Effects, Icon Design, Layout, Implementation
Story Heart Unlock: Icon Design, Effects, Animation, Implementation
New Time Record: Icon Design, Effects, Animation, Implementation
Skill Unlock: Icon Design, Effects, Animation, Implementation
Festival Event: Icon and Asset Creation, Effects, Animation, Implementation
Sponsor Contract Agreement: Effects, Animation
Championship Award: 3D Trophy 3D Lighting and Material Design, Effects
[SPOILERS] Final Stage: UI and Icon Design, Layout, Effects, Implementation

Retrospective

While I joined fairly late in development, I was very happy to get to work with the many talented and wonderful people at GREZZO!

This was my first experience working at a major game company in a fully Japanese environment. I learned a lot about working in Japanese both in language and business culture and also expanded my skills in making and implementing UI, particularly in effects and animation.

I am happy that the UI very much has the fantasy feel of the world in it and hope that everyone enjoys the game! The dragons are also really cool and I love the baby and world design as well!