Kersti S. Kodas

Responsible for UI design, tutorial design, and promotional art.

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Luna's Wandering Stars was created by Serenity Forge.

Available now on Steam

For Luna's Wandering Stars I was responsible for the in-game tutorial and help system. I also redesigned all of the UI associated with the game's level editor and online level sharing functionality to make it more user friendly and intuative. I was also responsible for all promotional art, including steam achievements and various banners.

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My primary task for Luna's Wandering Stars was to overhaul the way that a player learns how to play the game. I designed a series of 'tips' screens that first activate on appropriate levels where those tips first become useful. My goal with these tip screens was to effectively communicate the idea with the least amount of text possible. People in our target audience were prone to skipping text and being confused later on, so I made the tutorials as visually simulating as possible. I also spent a lot of time with the script, carefully selecting every word to make them as clear and consise as possible. For the animated aspects of the tutorials, I did the same thing, distilled down into a short clip what would best communicate the idea, so that the player would have to spend as little time with the tutorial as possible and still understand what they were supposed to do.