Website · 2026
Personal portfolio site for a game designer
Role
Art Direction + Design + Development (Client Project)
Stack
Programs Used
Gizem is a game designer who builds game economies and systems. A career contributing to 50M+ downloads was invisible inside template portfolios. She needed to face studios with a site that itself behaves like the thing she designs — a system.
I derived the art direction from Gizem's own discipline: acid green on black, blueprint grids, wireframe 3D geometry and a data-visualization aesthetic. Around the manifesto 'I turn small inspiring ideas into systems' I built a five-page structure: home, about, case studies, achievements and creative works. The site is hand-coded HTML/CSS/JS — no framework — with scroll-triggered reveal choreography, counters and marquee ribbons.
Discovery & Content Architecture
A content map built from Gizem's CV, game list and goals: which work lives on which page, which number speaks where.
Art Direction
Acid green + black palette, terminal/blueprint texture, wireframe geometry. The aesthetic of a game designer's working documents, brought to the web.
Design System
A tokenized color/type system in a single CSS file; reusable patterns for cards, ribbons, counters and labels.
Build & Motion
A framework-free, light and fast site; reveal choreography via IntersectionObserver, hover micro-interactions, marquees.
A visual language that explains a 'systems designer' — the portfolio reads like a game-economy document
Structuring a scattered 80+ game career into featured work plus a hyper-casual archive
A modern motion feel without a framework — reveal and counter choreography with zero dependencies
What This Project Taught Me
“The strongest art direction comes from inside the client's own craft. Gizem's site wasn't designed to look pretty — it was designed to think like her.”
A high-personality portfolio ready to send to studios: the numbers (5+ years, 80+ games, 50M+ downloads) speak on the first screen, and the case studies explain design decisions in systems language.