The Machines Arena is a 4vs4 hero-based web3 arena shooter with a top camera, with a vibrant players’ base and an always-changing set of maps and game modes!
My involvement on the project started in summer 2023, when I was hired to be the “UI guy” at the company and have ownership of the entire UI system, from the visuals to the connection with the back-end, transforming the work of our incredibly talented UX designer from Figma files to dynamic in-game screens. At that point the company had a huge firepower when it came to programmers, but no one who actually had any experience building UI. I also had to refactor widgets made by 4-5 different people, but the game was so optimized that the performance hit of bad practices was not significant enough to pursue this any further.
The game has been released on PC through the Epic Games store and Steam, and Android through PatchKit. A PlayStation version was planned before I left but no release date has been confirmed yet!