Deside

Deside is a choice-driven narrative strategy game built for mobile, tasking players with balancing resource management, environmental impact, and public trust through a card-swipe decision system.

• Role: Technical UI/UX Designer & Gameplay Programmer (Solo UI/UX + Engineering)
• Engine & Tools: Unity, C#
• Platform: Android (APK)
• Context: Developed for [Name of Competition/Jam]

🛠️ How to Play

• Drag Card Left/Right: Preview potential choices and their immediate effects.
• Release Swipe: Finalize your decision and commit to the consequences.

🕹️ Technical Highlights & Core Contributions

♿ Screen-Reader & Blind Accessibility (Mobile)

• Accessible Interface Architecture: Architected the entire mobile UI to support focus-based navigation and screen-reader accessibility, ensuring visually impaired players can navigate text blocks, resource states, and card options seamlessly.
• Text-to-Speech Integration: Implemented an audio-guided UI layer that dynamically voices character text, choices, and changes in resource metrics based on the player's active touchscreen interactions.

📱 Fluid Card Swipe Control & Game Feel

• Custom Gesture Tracking: Engineered a responsive touchscreen input system tracking directional drag thresholds and velocity vectors for intuitive, single-handed portrait play.
• Dynamic Visual Previews: Programmed real-time UI state updates that seamlessly reveal binary choice previews and scale interface elements as the player drags the card across the screen, mimicking industrial standards like Reigns and Lapse.

📊 Data-Driven Narrative (Dynamic CSV Library)

• External Content Parsing: Developed a lightweight, internal C# library to dynamically parse local .csv spreadsheets for dialogue strings, variable modifiers, and branching event logic.
• Decoupled Content Workflow: Separated story content entirely from the codebase, allowing narrative edits and localized text strings to update inside the game loop at runtime without requiring recompilation.