Illustration | Copyediting | UI | Direction
#HouseHacks is a point-and-click game shares DIY and home improvement tips as you move around the house. This was definitely a team effort. While I did the majority of the creative, illustration, and design work involved in this project, I worked closely with our PR representative and content marketing manager to preserve their vision of the piece. Our video editor did all of the sound design. It also would not exist at all without the web designer on our team who did all of the coding and implementation. Our marketing director also helped so much with debugging and recruiting people around the building to play test the game before its release.
Our PR team started off by reaching out to around 80 companies asking them to participate in our project by contributing "hacks" relevant to their business or industry. Once they chose their favorite hacks out of all of the submissions, I conceptualized how to show them in action inside a house. I storyboarded all of the rooms and how each item and object would interact with the user to show all of the tips (22 total). I illustrated all of the rooms and items (with 15% help of another designer who left one and a half weeks into the project). I also created a PDF printout of all the hacks so players could view all of the hacks listed in one place if they wanted to upon completion of the game. Once all of the illustrations were complete, I worked with the creative director on the UI. I handed all of the design assets over to our web designer, who coded it out, working with him as different tweaks and playability suggestions came up. I'm so proud of this project, and it felt good to lead the charge, coordinating with teammates, organizing small meetings when necessary, maintaining big picture goals, and directing the creative process of the project from conception to completion.
