Messenger Kids Games
Scare-port (AKA Lost Luggage) Matching Game. Art and design by Matt Harrison. TA setup, procedural animation, and gameplay scripting by Hoa Nguyen.
Swing Higher. Art by Niccolo Balce. TA setup, procedural animation, gameplay scripting by Hoa Nguyen.
Bear Cakes. Art by Matt Harrison and Goose Manriquez. Additional gameplay design by Adam Simpson and Hoa Nguyen. TA setup and gameplay programming by Hoa Nguyen.
I was a technical artist on the art team for the Messenger Kids mobile app. We designed and made games, filters, and AR effects released weekly. I was responsible for optimizing geometry and textures, making sure assets got into the Spark AR engine, scripting interactions, programming gameplay, and contributing to game design and brainstorming sessions.
Our lead designer Adam Simpson guided the gameplay strategy for our games and we'd collaborate and iterate on the game mechanics, interaction, feedback loops, micro-animations, and gameplay through the TA, initial prototype, and post dog-fooding/QA stages.