Damian Harrop

Disney Emoji Blitz

Since 2023, I have been working at Jam City as an Associate UI Tech Artist on Disney Emoji Blitz. My contributions include: importing and implementing new assets, setting up new features for engineers, fixing bugs in the UI, and working on optimization. Here are a few of the features that I have worked on over the years.

Stardust Challenges

Stardust Challenges has been the biggest feature and also my favorite feature I have worked on so far. Stardust Challenges replaced the daily challenges tab, it adds missions for players to complete and when completed offers progress towards the wishing star screen. The wishing star screen allows players to choose prizes where they get one of the prizes they ‘wish’ for. The wishing star screen was a highlight in development for me because while I was building out the background, I brought up that a parallax scrolling effect would really plus up the background, and when implemented we received a lot of positive feedback about it! 

Daily Dynamic Missions

Daily Dynamic Missions is a feature that was adding to the main home screen that gives player’s daily missions to complete to win prizes and after finishing a streak of completions gives them a loot box. This was a fun yet challenging feature to work on because I had to fit the UI in such a small space!

Groups

Emoji Groups was added as a feature to release new emojis of similar themes on a month by month basis. As players collect the new emojis and gain duplicates, they win prizes, and will unlock a special emoji once they collect all other emojis in the list. 

Fast Follow Sales

Fast Follow Sales is a monetary feature that when a player purchases an item (loot box, coins, hearts, etc.) the Fast Follow Sale popup appears to entice the player to purchase another item at a sale price. 

Disney Emoji Blitz

Since 2023, I have been working at Jam City as an Associate UI Tech Artist on Disney Emoji Blitz. My work includes implementing new features, optimization, and fixing bugs. Here are some of the features I have worked on over the years. 

Stardust Challenges

Stardust Challenges has been the biggest feature and also my favorite feature I have worked on so far. Stardust Challenges replaced the daily challenges tab, it adds missions for players to complete and when completed offers progress towards the wishing star screen. The wishing star screen allows players to choose prizes where they get one of the prizes they ‘wish’ for. The wishing star screen was a highlight in development for me because while I was building out the background, I brought up that a parallax scrolling effect would really plus up the background, and when implemented we received a lot of positive feedback about it! 

Daily Dynamic Missions

Daily Dynamic Missions is a feature that was adding to the main home screen that gives player’s daily missions to complete to win prizes and after finishing a streak of completions gives them a loot box. This was a fun yet challenging feature to work on because I had to fit the UI in such a small space!

Groups

Emoji Groups was added as a feature to release new emojis of similar themes on a month by month basis. As players collect the new emojis and gain duplicates, they win prizes, and will unlock a special emoji once they collect all other emojis in the list. 

Fast Follow Sales

Fast Follow Sales is a monetary feature that when a player purchases an item (loot box, coins, hearts, etc.) the Fast Follow Sale popup appears to entice the player to purchase another item at a sale price.