Hi! I’m Dan and welcome to Prattatatat.com, my online portfolio. I'm a professional video game developer with 15 years of industry experience; specializing in user interface design, with a background in 3d modeling, texturing and graphic design. I'm currently working in Germany making all things UI related! Here you’ll find my portfolio, work curriculum, and even a often neglected blog that might contain some nuggets of wisdom. Thanks for visiting.

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Sci-Fi Interfaces

Portfolio Personal Piece

These fictional interfaces are created & animated within the Unity engine. Created over several days as an exercise to capture the aesthetic & essence sci-fi interfaces.

Check out my blog for a few more images & insights.

Dead Island: Survivors

Role Senior UI Designer
Developer Deep Silver FISHLABS

Dead Island: Survivors brings the ultimate zombie action experience to your mobile devices. For my part, I updated and implemented a fresh coat of paint to the interface, heavily optimized UI assets and worked with the team to rework many game features.

Tetris Ultimate

Role Senior UI Artist
Developer SoMa Play / Ubisoft
Platforms PS4, PSVita, Xbox One, PC

Tetris Ultimate is a puzzle video game developed by SoMa Play and published by Ubisoft for consoles and PC.

Created user interface, user flow, wireframes and game assets. Worked in close collaboration with our engineers and technical artist to bring designs to fruition.  Led an external development team on the adaptation of the UI for the Vita SKU.

Legends of Honor

Role Lead UI Designer
Developer Goodgame Studios
Platforms Mobile, Browser

Legends of Honor is a strategy mobile and browser game... Combining fast-paced PvP combat with strategic empire building.

Led a team of 2-4 UI artists through the development of Legends of Honor. Created and curated the UI style, various screens and UI elements.

Toy Drift

Role UI Art / Art Direction
Developer Coin App
Platform Mobile

Shoot, boost, and drift your way to the top of the leaderboards in Toy Drift. A twist on the endless runner genre, launched 2015 for iOS mobile platforms.

Created user interface, game flow, characters and the environment.  This was a 3 person passion project.

Zynga

Role Senior UI Artist
Developer Zynga
Platforms Mobile, Browser, Facebook

Created icons, interface layouts, 3D models and various other assets during my time at Zynga. Some of the titles represented are Hidden Chronicles, Cafe World, Bubble Safari, and prototype efforts.

Baja: Edge of Control

Role Artist
Developer 2XL Games / THQ
Platforms PS3, Xbox 360, Rereleased on PS4, Xbox One

Baja: Edge of Control is an open-world off road racing video game developed by 2XL Games, published by THQ.

Responsible for various object modeling, texturing, physics / collision setup, and object placement throughout the environment.

Bubble Safari

Role Senior UI Artist
Developer Zynga
Platforms Browser, Facebook

Bubble Safari is a Match 3 social network game by Zynga. The object is to help a monkey named Bubbles reconnect with his friends.

Created cinematic models and textures (plane / small props) for the bubble shooter, Bubble Safari. 

Max Blastronaut

Role UI Art / Art Direction
Developer Coin App
Platform Xbox 360 - Unreleased

An XBLA (Xbox Live Arcade) intended beat-em'-up / shooter hybrid.  Handled branding, UI / HUD design, character / environmental modeling and texturing.

The Sims 3 Wii

Role UI Artist
Developer Planet Moon Studios / EA
Platform Nintendo Wii

The Sims 3 is the third major title in the life simulation video game "The Sims", published by Electronic Arts. The multiplayer portion was developed by Planet Moon Studios.

Responsible for user interface assets, implementation and animation.

Work Van

Portfolio Personal Piece

The "work van" is a personal work, created the model and texture based on reference.