MUTE Protocol is the very first full-fledged event I was fully commited to. COVID-19 just strucked and we were working via VPN and distanciation became rampant. The overall UI design leaned heavily on concepts and analog effects.

MUTE was heavily inspired by Atom-punk with a mix of Neon-sci-fi opera's ala Bladerunner, Star Wars. While on the FX side, the mode featured Glitches, CRT lines, and Digital layerings.

Cars were very zoomed in when I started on Siege, they were "baked" so artists could blend backgrounds with the foreground character. It allow much more "on-theme" visuals that fitted the event style.

The HUD that was developped for the game mode was secure area. In Flash, we built a very simple state type iconography for captured, secured and contested states. It was animated FbF and baked in with action script.

As I was integrating assets I noticed a noticable disconnect with the key art and the UI layout. So, I took on myself to make re-adapt it to look nicer and feature the art in the right-side section.

I had first to change the layout (first image) and then make a secondary export layout with the characters + tower bundled together (second image), so that the tiles section doesn't hide the main subjects.

This adaptation will become a consistant necessity moving forward for all subsequent events I worked on. It's the very seed that, eventually, will convince my Art Director at the time, Alexander Karpazis, to trust me to take on the event keyarts mandate on a seasonal basis.