The CRISPY Hair Salon is a mini-game based on a popular genome editing technology: CRISPR-Cas9 system. The clients will visit the hair salon, asking for a new hairstyle. The player will be asked to control the sgRNA to collect 20 base pairs that are complementary to the target gene in order to “cut” the correct region in the client’s DNA sequence, genetically modifying the client’s hair. The target audience for the game is high school students and above. The game is expected to be played on a laptop/desktop monitor.
Programmer: Aven Jones, Art Director/Asset Developer: Odelia Cheng, Art Director/Asset Developer/Music Engineer: SoYoung Kwon
My Role:
As Art Director and Asset Developer, I worked on concepting visual style through color palette and font choice and wireframed the entire game. This included writing the game instructions and CRISPR-Cas9 explanations. In addition, I also created vector assets including all backgrounds, icons, and buttons in Adobe Illustrator. Finally, I created the 2d animations in After Effects for the instruction and CRISPR-Cas9 explanation pages.
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