Matchmaker Millie is an iOS game, the core game mechanic is to guide characters to bump into each other, therefore 'matchmaking' them based on matching the colours of their clothes. We decided on 5 sets of couples, and each were to be dressed in 5 different colours, making it a total of 25 different sprites to be generated (this is just in-game characters, I also had to worry about cutscene character sprites). I had severe time constraints working on this game and so I designed the characters to fit into the same template and easily interchangeable. This also gave the game a very distinct character and consistent style.

 

I had to reign myself in and keep each character quite minimal once I realised that any tweaks would take me considerable time updating through all the different coloured sprites. But I definitely wanted to give each type of character very distinct personalities so they could be easily recognised as they would behave differently in-game. I managed to achieve a happy balance between the level of detail and still keeping the minimalists look.