Natural Election

Natural Election is a time and budget management simulation where the team runs the campaign of an animal candidate looking to become the next mayor of a wildlife reserve.

• Identified limitations in the initial Phaser implementation and proposed migrating to Svelte, resulting in improved development speed.
• Fully architected and implemented the game client.
• Took over both client and server development, after the company reduced forces during the development cycle.
• Implemented complex UI animations using state machines.

  enum AnimationState {
    NONE,
    SELECT_ELECTORATE,
    ELECTORATE_VOTES_FOR_TEXT,
    UPDATE_CANDIDATE_VOTES,
    CANDIDATE_TAKE_THE_LEAD,
    WINNER_CANDIDATE,
  }

• Implemented the Synthesis game platform integration.
• Set up the client monitoring service (Sentry).
• Set up CI/CD with GitHub Actions.
• Collaborated closely with game designers and artists to ship the game without major delays.
• A complete breakdown of the game visuals is available at Jamie Worthy's website, our Lead UI/UX designer and artist for this project. She is a great teammate, by the way.