Allegrow is a game I created with 3 other game creators in Unreal. We came up with a fun idea to mix music with the goal of making plants happy! That transformed into having a mystical tree in the center where you create and edit a randomized track to get the tree to dance along with you!
For this project, I focused on the UI/UX design as well as taking the roles of assistant programmer and audio producer (everyone on the team produced original audio for the game!) We were in love with the concept of our game but were greatly concerned with how to make such an expansive and detailed system easy and intuitive for players of all experience ranges. That’s the job I tackled. I came up with the idea for having 4 base instruments to include in every randomized mix. Each of the instruments has a variety of tracks to choose from (and the coolest part is we created it so all of the tracks blend together, no matter which ones you choose!) and is represented by a statue in the magical music grove you are roaming. As you choose the correct tracks, you get feedback from the tree (it dances more as you produce music it likes) and once you choose all of the correct tracks, a new way to interact with the statues appears! You can now change the pitch of the tracks, to create an even more personalized combination. Once you’ve perfected the pitches of all instruments with all of the correct tracks, a mysterious button emerges from the ground. Once you press the button, the track is finalized!
Minimal instructions in a music note at the spawn of the game
The guitar instrument statue on the first level, picking the correct track
The drum instrument statue on the second level (all tracks are correctly chosen, now you can change the pitch of the tracks with the slider that has mysteriously appeared once all tracks were correct)
The piano instrument statue with all levels completed (but the final button not pushed). The track and pitch slider are set at the perfect levels and you can see a glowing aura emanating from the piano and floating to the tree.
Watch a quick playthrough here: