SONGPOP 2

FreshPlanet 2014 - 2016
Lead Designer

A sequel to FreshPlanet's original SongPop, a music trivia game. Available on mobile and Facebook.

BRANDING EXPLORATION

SongPop is about connecting people of all generatins with music. When looking at what symbolizes music throughout all generations, the record always appealed to me as very iconic. While records are representative of the 1950-70's, they are still largely used and cherished today.

The original SongPop logo was hovering over a barely recognizeable record. I wanted to bring that record to the centerpoint of the logo to really grasp it's appeal and strength.

UI DESIGN

I worked with Nichole Sokoloff on finalizing the look and feel of the brand and applying it to the UI of the game. We needed to find a fine line between updating the look of the game while not turning away users with the redesign. When looking at the original SongPop, the blue color was very prominent across the core gameplay. We wanted to keep that same feeling and connection people had to the game and simply brighten and clean it up to give it bright and consistent look.

For the homescreen, we asked the very talented, Richard Perez, to illustrate characters that would serve as main buttons to take users to different parts of the game. I enjoy working with illustrators when doing UX/UI design work for games. It allows for more time to focus on usability and the final look of the product.

STYLE GUIDES

When working in a team I find having a style guide to be extremely helpful in making the product look consistent. People may come and go on a project and it’s always good to keep documentation for the design process.

Here is a sample of a style guide for SongPop 2.

CHARACTER ILLUSTRATIONS

Here are a few characters I desinged based off of Richard Perez’s original style. These were used in various marketing materials for FreshPlanet.

CHARACTER ANIMATION FOR SONGPOP PARTY

The gameplay of SongPop 2 was adapted to SongPop Party - an Apple TV game. I created the ‘correct’ and ‘incorrect’ answer animations for various character along with an idle animation for the character select screen. The assets for the characters were exported from Sketch and animated in Core Animator.

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