Dance Central 2

Dance Central 2 for Kinect. Two players dance side by side, tracked full-body with no controller.

Studio

Harmonix

Publisher

MTV Games and Microsoft

Year

2011

Platforms

Xbox 360 with Kinect

Role

Art lead

Partners

Lakshya Digital, Curious Pictures (motion capture)

Every routine belongs to a crew, a rival dance team with its own look and attitude. I directed the visual identity across crews, venues and UI. About 2.04 million copies sold worldwide. D.I.C.E. finalist for Family Game of the Year, Spike VGA nominee for Best Motion Game.

I wrote the Dance Central 2 style guide and led the art. We built on the existing crews’ lore, adding new characters and the relationships between rival crews.

Accessibility ran through the work: calibration, colorblind settings, contrast and font legibility testing.