Sofia Hayden's Portfolio

Game Art: I enjoy doing art, design and assets for playable games! To see my work come to life in an explorable environment is a truly special feeling.

Wink and the Fae
Artist, UI Design, Tech Art
Ludum Dare 56, October 2024Play as Wink in an HD illustrated top-down shooter, where you rescue tiny fae creatures and must return them to safety! I created all character, environment, and UI assets. We focused on trying to make the game simple, but still fun, punchy and polished.

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Lead Artist and Animator
Cozy Indie Project
July 2022 - July 2023I gained a year of professional experience in this contract indie role! As the sole artist on the team, I came on to research and define the art direction from scratch. Created concept art and sketches, then moved on to the production of all pixel assets. These included 24x24 tilesets for different seasons, many unique props, buildings, interiors, UI icons, character designs and animations.

Burn Beetle
Artist, UI Design, Tech Art
Ludum Dare 54, October 2023This little bug's got fire! For this challenge, we made a retro top-down game with simplified graphics and a focus on gameplay feel, VFX, and mood!

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"Loading…"
Artist, Animator, UI Design
Ludum Dare 51 Extra, October 2022Worked on a 2D base defense game with cute teleporting dogge, mechs, enemies, sick music, and a pretty sunset cityscape.

"Road Rage Mage"
Artist, Animator, UI Design
Ludum Dare 50, April 2022
Graphics: Ranked in Top 3.5%Worked on a 2.5D turn based racing game for my third 72hr game jam! Learned a lot by animating characters, VFX, creating a parallax background, and designing user interface assets.

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"Hiraeth"
Lead Artist
UPE Sparkdev, Spring 2022For this 9-week project, I organized and represented a team of 6 artists for a top-down pixel puzzle game~ My tasks involved developing the visual style of the game, leading the art production schedule, creating assets (shown here), doing the final environment design in Unity, and helping to mentor teammates who were new to game development!It was a very valuable and educational experience working on a team of 15 members total. Communication and careful role assignment was certainly key to completing the project.