Microsoft Solitaire Collection
MY ROLE: Art Direction, UX, Animation, Interaction Design, Visual Design
Microsoft Solitaire is the most played video game of all time and I was honored to be given the task to re-imagine the experience for both its Windows 8 and its initial Windows 10 release. Despite the initial success of Microsoft Solitaire and its subsequent tidal wave of copycats, as of May 2020 it still had over 100 million games dealt every day.
It presented some interesting UX challenges. For the Windows 8 release it not only had to be a great game, but teach and reinforce the new Windows 8 metro UI concepts that were still being developed. It is worthwhile to note that while I am proud that even after all of this time the game still uses my design and animations for the game itself, other designers and monetization schemes have followed and I am not responsible for some of the surrounding UX and UI that currently exists outside of the game itself.
Many thanks to: Chris Neuman, Yevgeni Savin, Angelina Fursova
Other Microsoft Games
Solitaire Collection is only one of the games that my team developed for Microsoft. I am very proud of the others though too, including: Minesweeper, Mahjongg, Jigsaw, and Jackpot Slots.
Special thanks to these amazing designers: Terrance Peng, Chris Neuman, Natasha Yakubovskaya, Alexey Dudin, Olga Bortyakova, Artem Tregubenko
