blitz games
These “Blitz” mini-games were in ideation for a long time before I joined the team, and I aided in bringing them to Monty by designing the main interface screens. There are various mini-games developed for different biomes: rainforest, savanna, and ocean. Children playing were tasked with dragging, dropping, and organizing the pictures in their respective crates. Each Blitz game had a sixty-second timer, meant to be a fun and quick way to learn, as opposed to the more reading-heavy passage questions throughout the game. When the picture is dragged into the correct crate, the label and lights flash green, but if incorrect, they flash red.
designed in illustrator
individual assets
temperate vs. tropical concept
Below is a Blitz game screen designed with the intent for the kids to categorize images of plants as either temperate or tropical. However, it was decided by my educational development and children’s psychology co-workers that they would scrap the exercise to be replaced by another. Although this game was scrapped, the individual assets I designed for this game can be used in future elements of the game.
process
I began this project by sketching out some illustrations for the plants and animals that would be sorted into the categories of “Herbivore,” “Carnivore,” “Omnivore,” “Producers,” “Consumers,” and “Decomposers.” These would later have been drawn over in Illustrator; however, photographs were used in place of illustrations for clarity. There was also a concept that these games would have taken place at a café run by Jackson the Chameleon
Left: An early draft of the Blitz games. Differing from the final design which only houses one picture at a time, this design featured a carousel of images that would scroll slowly across the screen. Without a timer in the top right corner, the time it took to finish the mini-game was recorded and shown at the end instead. The goal was to make quicker connections between the images and their correct categories.
Not too different from the final concept that seperated the images between temperate and tropical plants
Another early concept used squares for the different categories instead of crates; however, it was not very visually exciting
Above are some progress screenshots of my workspace in adobe illustrator
