Interactive Microsite Design

The Ace Hardlight Experience

Interactive Microsite Design for a teaser website made for the villain character of Ratchet & Clank videogame, Ace Hardlight, for Sony PlayStation and Insomniac Games.

The Ace Hardlight Experience is a microsite for Ace Hardlight, the main enemy gladiator from the Ratchet Gladiator video game who is brash, arrogant and self-obsessed. Ace believes that he is the best gladiator in the universe and that he, therefore, deserves his own personal website. The site needed to have a fun and humorous approach, so working closely with Lightmaker's 3D design team we came up with a series of fan character animations for Ace to be activated within each section of the site. We barely had any assets to work with so I created almost every graphic element from scratch and the 3D team did an excellent work by animating the character to life.

Role

Design Lead
Interactive Design
Animation 

Client

Sony PlayStation
UK

Agency

Lightmaker UK
UK

Year

2006

United Kingdom, France, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Ireland, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Australia, New Zealand.
The Ace Hardlight Experience logo with a superhero figure in space, surrounded by speech bubbles about personal achievements and career.
The Ace Hardlight Experience logo with a central character in space, surrounded by speech bubbles about personal achievements and merchandise.
The Ace Hardlight Experience logo with a central character in space, surrounded by speech bubbles with text.
The Ace Hardlight Experience logo with a superhero figure floating in space, surrounded by speech bubbles with text.
The Ace Hardlight Experience logo with a cartoon astronaut character floating in space, surrounded by speech bubbles.
The Ace Hardlight Experience logo with a space-themed background, featuring a character in a superhero costume and a speech bubble.
Space-themed digital interface featuring a character, merchandise options, and floating screens with product images.
The image shows a space-themed arcade game interface with a character in a superhero costume, a large screen with game information, and a
A sci-fi themed game interface with a space background, a character in a suit, and a message box for sharing information.

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