Lean UX no redesign da interface do jogo hexachronos

Abstract

The team developed, in 2020, Hexachronos, a strategy game with RPG and Visual Novel features that could be ported to mobile platforms to take advantage of the exponential growth of the video game market. There were flaws in the development process that derived from the acceleration and non-fulfillment of some steps, resulting in a product that was inappropriate for the public context and its proposal, requiring it to be restarted. This report has as objective, to describe the development of the Hexachronos’ user interface redesign iteratively and adapting it to the new game and users context. So, describing this process by the research, game interface concepts, and development via the Lean UX methodology. Futhermore, the report also presents the elaboration and results of the gameplay evaluation and user opinion about the redesign and and discusses about the discovered problems and the difficulties faced in the development process. In it’s first version, the Hexachronos game was part of the Integrated Project II discipline and, as it’s requirements, it has been developed using the Design Thinking methodology, which consists in seven steps (define, research, ideation, protoype, select, implemente and learn). In it’s second version, to which this report relates, was developed using the Lean UX methodology and using the Lean UX Canvas support, which all the team members participated at the steps involved the canvas filling and the protoypes idealization. Finally, even with challenges - such as the lack of specific material on the subject and the amount of time spent in research for better solution - the process allowed to complete the user interface resdesign for the Hexachronos game in an iteractive way and adapt it to the game and players context.