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Playtesting
People picking up the game for the first time: opening the journal, flipping through the bookmarks and finding their way back to the forest.
Aniventure Comic Con 2024 · Sofia
Yunache
Yunache (Little Hero) is a 3D adventure game set in a magical forest full of creatures from Bulgarian folklore. As you explore, you collect lost memories, and each one fills in a page of an old journal. I designed the interface around that journal, and painted concept art based on real places in Bulgaria.
- My role
- UI designer & 2D concept artist — start menu, HUD, journal
- Game
- 3D adventure · Unreal Engine
- Team
- Students at ARC Academy, class of 2024
- Shown at
- Aniventure Comic Con, Inter Expo Center, Sofia — 6–7 July 2024
Case study
Project description
Start menu, HUD, the journal and concept art.
Watch
Game trailer
The finished world, with sound.
Behind the scenes
Out in the world
Playtests, the pitch and a special edition.
Case study
Game trailer
Out in the world
The best test for a game interface is someone who has never seen it before. Here’s Yunache meeting real players, a real audience, and one very unexpected bottle.
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The pitch
Presenting Yunache on the big screen, with the journal open on Baba Marta, the grandmother of spring from Bulgarian folklore, and the red-and-white martenitsa she’s known for.
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Special edition
Our little hero ended up on a beer label: a special-edition bottle with Yunache standing in the forest next to a great stag. Not something you expect when you start out drawing menus.