ILRI: SEEDS

Project Lead (Game Designer & Producer)

Objective: : To develop a smartphone gaming app for visioning climate smart livestock systems in East Africa.

Client: ILRI

Genre: : Data dissemination, collection, interaction and elaboration.

Studio collaboration: Leti Arts (Creative), Ijsfontein (Dev, Uptrek support)

Project Status: Uprek Version (Released), Android Version (Released)


Project & Personal Highlights: Deploying for field tests on Jan 2021 in 3 African countries! (Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana)
 

• Handled the PM duties along with design and art direction
   

• Worked together with the researchers and created the core gameplay, game flows and other design related components for the game
   

• Set up the internal Slack and other PM avenues. Carried out daily standups and weekly sprints and made sure the work flow smoothly.
   

• Worked with researchers to gather complex and relevant research for the project and then broke it down/converted it into usable game content
   

• Carried out the art direction and made sure the 3d farms and props were in line with Uptrek technical guidelines and acc. to the client needs 
   

• Creation of the game content in the Uptrek platform in form of courses and expeditions
   

• Led the design & art team for the mobile game completion
   

• Highlight: Upgraded the original Uptrek game into a more complex and HQ game called, 'ILRI: SEEDS' which was then deployed on field!