Platform: Alexa (Echo Spot, Echo Show, Fire TV)

Release: 2020

Role: VUI Designer/Game Designer/Writer

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: Foodimals is a pet-sim game based on the Sony Pictures Animated film.

Inventor Flint Lockwood’s food-generating machine has gone haywire creating new animals made of food!

Take care of a “Foodimal” a new virtual pet made just for Alexa devices. Check in every day to feed it, teach it tricks, and play activities. Compete in special weekend Foodimals Contests to unlock new tricks and special Musicolars.

Contributions:

• Designed pet-sim system and game activities including: daily check-in pet behaviors, teaching tricks, quizzes, and branching dialogue.

• Created detailed flowcharts documenting game design and multi-modal user-experience.

• Wrote interactive dialogue for naming pet, responding to unique pet status, teaching tricks and tutorials.

• Maintained production pipeline and implemented VO, SFXs and visual assets.

• Developed visual style guide based off animated film and coordinated art direction with characters artists and lead visual designer.