Life & Strife

Narrative card game where everyday life tasks are resolved through card challenges, set in a Greek / cyberpunk world where AI and mental implants are the norm. Under NDA — details available on request.

Overview

Life & Strife is the public-facing name for a card game I worked on at Fair Play Labs. Every card comes alive: cards land on the table, appear, disappear, explode and emit particles. My work made that motion consistent and production-ready.

What I delivered

• High-impact animations for challenge and player cards
• Card light-wave and table/card interaction effects
• UI animation across buttons, pop-ups and transitions
• Particles and shaders created and adapted for the card system
• UI formatting and finalization in Unity from mockups
• Minor adjustments to 3D scenes and UI-related objects

Tools

• Unity
• DOTween (customized workflow)
• VFX / Particles
• Post-processing
• Shaders

Process

Working alongside the game artists and development team, I tuned VFX, post-processing, timing and positioning through a modified DOTween plugin that moved animation work from code into Unity's inspector — keeping every card's animation correct and consistent while staying fast to iterate.