Chick N' Wars

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Free-To-Play | Tower Defense | MOBA

High Concept

Unit Designer

UI/UX Designer

Art Director

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Completed

November 2022 - December 2022

First project of my Second Year this time the guidelines were this time rather centered around the business model. The Free-To-Play model, our game was to be intended for mobile and developped in Unity.

Having heard of this project's nature prior I had thought of a high concept ahead of time. However as I would later in the year with Arkames, despite coming up with the original concept, I wanted to try and set myself back from the ship's helm in order to learn how to follow. While still assuming leadership positions in others exercices outside the big projects.

Manifesto

The concept was rather simple: drag and drop Units/Animals on three separate lanes connecting the three structures of each player's Farm. With each having a different strategic value pushing the player to make choices.

A architecture similar to Clash Royale, but with an added layer when it came to ressources management. The Windmill producing Weat to purchase Units and the Watermill being used to upgrade said Units during a match.

Those Units would reside within the Barn set on the middle lane and occupy limited slots taking the form of pens. As such that the players would have to establislish a stategy beforehand through the picking of their Animals.

You Animals

What would be a MOBA without its cannonfodder. In the case of Chick N' Wars that would be the Animals themselves.

Having taken over during a worldwide agrarian revolution they now wage war between Farms.

The Chicken was the first to appear alongside the high concept and thus quickly became a mascot of sorts. After it I set off to expand the roster designing each Animal in both form and function.

Each would have a signature move ranging from somewhat based on reality to relative fantasy. Each meant to fill a certain role: Chicken as our archer, Ram as our footsoldier, Cow as our tank and Rooster as our glasscanon.

Animals

Chicken

Ram

Rooster

Cow

In addition to the Animals the environment would have to be defined. So alongside the Units themselves I made sure to provide the necessary buildings linked to the Player's Farm/Base that included the Windmill, the Barn, the Watermill as well as the Pens holding the Animals. Finally a tileset so I could quickly build the Arena when the time came.

Buildings & Environment

Windmill

Barn

Watermill

Cattle Pens

Tiles Set

UI Farm

Having experienced with the F2P model previously during a workshop I started on a strong foot when it came to the UI. Ending the matter in the engine to make it at least functional. The goal being to display an intention rather than a finished system.

In terms of layout I followed some basic principles of mobile games, keeping ergonomics and ease of use at the top of my head such as the main tabs at the bottom Nudges Pops Ups

Menu Tabs

Main Menu

Tech Tree

Inventory

Store

Arena & Pop-ups

Arena

Victory Screen

Defeat Screen

Quit Screen

Aftermath

As per the exercice requirement, we were to imagine what would be our Post-Release strategy and to expand our vision if Chick N' Wars was to be pursued, a reflexion I happily took part in.

Apart from natural core features that we would add to compete with other F2P on the market, there was also the life service to consider.

PvE Campaign & Events
Ranked Matches
New Animals
The ability to form Syndicates (clans).
Syndicate Wars
A Common Market to trade animals (separate from the aesthetics Shop)
Seasonal events & content