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Diablo Immortals

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Overview

Assessing the player experience through the lens of the four video game design pillars to pinpoint areas for enhancement. This project was undertaken as part of ELVTR’s Advanced UX/UI in Gaming course.

Challenges

  • Short timespan
  • Limited knowledge of established game rules
  • Design references were very vast and hard to pin down
  • Limited access to art resources

Solution

                                                             Mobile

Role

UX/UI & Research

Timeline

1 week

Tools

Figma & Photoshop

Highlights

Experience Goals Success Metrics  Cross-Platform

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Console

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Card Sorting

I began with a card sorting exercise, organizing some of the player options in the game into categories: pre-gameplay, gameplay, and post-gameplay.

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UX/UI Goals & Success Metrics

To gain a clearer understanding of the objectives and the desired outcome, I crafted an experience goals and vision chart. 

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Rated each screen based on Usability, Desirability, and Scalability (3 = high score) for each pillar

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Pinned key focus areas with the highest impact

Experience & Production Prioritization

Decided to focus on the Pre-Game: Experience and Gameplay: Skills & Abilities. The next step involved deciding the work needed to achieve the specific goals

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Inspirtations

  • Analyzed RPG conventions: observed common practice of disabling player skills and abilities in town areas - Not primary goal
  • Reviewed other games 'Ultimate mechanics' with Jakob's Law in mind, gaining insights to enhance clarity in the current 'Ultimate mechanics'
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Player Journey Map

Flow Chart

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Wireframes

PRE-GAME EXPERIENCE

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  • Increased the size of the interaction action
  • Removed the potion slot - players can't use potions in town and automatically at full health
  • Disabled and reduced the size (focus) of the skill bars when in town
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  • Implemented Long Press for Ultimate activation in settings to help minimize player error

 just click on the yellow checkmark button on the top right. Have Fun!

GAMEPLAY

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  • Ultimate ability is always visible but disabled until fully charged
  • Aligned Ultimate Meter color with activation border for enhanced clarity
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  • Match Ultimate color glow with activation button for improved discoverability and clarity.
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CONSOLE

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  • Learned how to analyze a video game in depth using the 4 video game experience pillars.
  • Gained a better understanding of the player gameplay flow and how to define the experience goals and success metrics effectively for video games.

Selected Works

Diablo ImmortalsEvaluating the current player experience

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