Boxhead 3D

Role

Game Design, UI/UX Design, 3D Environments, Voice Acting

Platform

Mobile Game (iOS, Android & Apple TV)

Year

2013–2014

Team

Solo designer, 3D modeler & PM, 1 developer

Tools

Unity, Maya

Overview

Boxhead 3D brings the classic Boxhead zombie shooter into 3D: a top-down, post-apocalyptic shoot ’em up where players survive endless hordes, unlock blocky action-hero characters, and upgrade their arsenal.

I handled the game design and UI/UX, wrote the game design document, and created the game’s environments, from 3D modeling and texturing to getting each one into the game in Unity 3D. I also voiced some of the characters.

01The game

Are you prepared for the Boxpocalypse?

A free-to-play action game with Story, Survival, and Last Stand modes. Players fight off waves of baddies, collect coins from kills and boxes, and spend them on new characters, stages, and weapons.

02Environments

Built, textured, and placed in Unity

I created the game’s environments, including city streets, a lava field, a forest clearing, and a highway, handling the 3D modeling, texturing, and everything needed to bring them into the game in Unity.

03Gameplay

Endless hordes, bigger guns

Purple boxes drop more powerful weapons, and each weapon levels up as you use it. The design document also specified a modern twin-stick control scheme alongside the classic controls.

04UI/UX

A gritty, blood-splattered interface

Menus carry the game’s grungy, comic-violent tone, from stage select and character select (with each character’s weapon loadout and ability) to the coin store.

Boxhead 3D menus, stage select, character select, and store

05HUD & tutorial

Readable in the chaos

The HUD keeps score, combo multiplier, coins, and weapon level in view, and a one-screen tutorial teaches the twin-stick controls: move with the left stick, fire with the right.

06Characters & voices

Action heroes, one voice pack at a time

Each blocky character, like the series hero John Bambo, comes with its own voice pack. I voiced some of the characters.

07Flow

Every screen mapped

A storyboard maps the full screen flow, from splash and main menu through stage and character selection, gameplay, and results.

08Game design document

The rules of the Boxpocalypse

The GDD covers game modes, control schemes, characters and abilities, enemies, stages, weapons and upgrades, and the monetization strategy, from coin pricing to character and stage unlocks.

09Outcome

Released on iOS

Boxhead 3D launched on iOS.