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Mini Metro Interactive Prototype In this Figma file - Experiment with Figma prototype of the famous game about managing beatiful minimalist metro! - Learn the size of UI/UX design that is needed for such game development - Lots of text styles, colour system, icons, components and more reconstructed in Figma - Learn the insights on game design Upcoming Updates: - desktop version - solutions (playing Mini Motorways for inspiration)
12. Conclusion So, there we have it. Mini Metro is a champion of minimalism: - Its gameplay is easy to learn, but hard to master - Its aesthetics are iconic (hehe!) and efficient - UX helpful and just enough But for me personally it haven’t escaped the main problem of minimalist approach: The lack of novelty over time. It’s just my opinion! Still the game is awesome and I recommend it for everyone who loves trains, game design, strategy, graphic design and trains!
11. Some spare thoughts Mini Metro is very accessible! - You can play it almost on any modern platform! - Game supports lots of languages, even RTL ones (Right-To-Left)! - As the game has mostly touch/mouse controls, it is not that accessible for fully blind people (can’t be truly sure about a console version, as it uses focus/D-pad system, but I couldn’t acces it). - But accessible almost to everyone else: - Colourblind mode help people with colourblindness; - Animations and UI are efficient and juicy enough for people with hearing problems; - The game has an option to disable those awesome, but a bit nauseating menu transitions and to disable vibration.
7. Risks To talk about risks of minimalist approach I need to tell you about the Level variety
6. Aesthetics: Elegant The game is a love letter to graphic design. It feels like an ode to legacies of Harry Beck's London Tube map and Massimo Vignelli’s New York City Subway map. Sound design was codeveloped with Disasterpeace. The procedurally generated sound FX form the abstract music that feels chill while you’re doing okay, but unnerving when peeps (passengers) start to overcrowd. Overall, I would say that even if the game didn’t have all the texts and translations, the graphic design, animation and player’s real life experiences with the signage would do keep it accessible.
2 Inspired by their experiences in navigating the London metro map, developers from Dinosaur Polo Club jammed and created the game about managing the rail transit networks. And in the process, they’ve mastered the Minimalist approach to game design. Let's see how they did that.
Less is More with Mini Metro Personally remade animation of video game metro