Rugby 25
Big Ant Studios // 2024-2025
Officially released in February 2025, Rugby 25 is a rugby union video game developed by Big Ant Studios, delivering an immersive and competitive simulation experience to rugby union fans internationally. During this project I was responsible for leading front-end mockups and user flows for various game modes, whilst additionally contributing to dynamic UI designs and identities.
Approach
Within the UI team I helped maintain an extensive Figma project through regularly creating and updating components, styles and screens, ultimately creating a productive workflow. With this workflow I worked closely with the UI Artist to efficiently deliver mockups, prototypes and user flows.
Additionally, I regularly collaborated with game designers, programmers and quality-assurance testers to bring game concepts to life, whilst also understanding niche, detailed information from the world of rugby union to translate into comprehensible user experiences.
Over the course of a year of production, I helped design:
- Main menu interaction and navigation with a bespoke tile UI system
- Unique UI identities for multiple licensed competitions
- Career modes - comprehensible rugby union simulation modes that immerse players in the world of rugby union
- The overall UI theme for Rugby 25 - leading and maintaining the Figma project to deliver a cohesive design system.
Animated intro and menu experience was an animation sequence I had
created from mockups in Adobe After Effects and Figma.