Nova Jones

Game Development - Graphic Design

Hello! I’m Nova, a solo game developer and graphic designer looking to join a team!

I strive to elevate my skills in
all aspects of game design,
with special interests in 2D
art and animation, music, and
programming.

My Skills

Graphic Design

Logos, Posters, Social Media Posts

Photoshop
Illustrator
Premiere Pro

Game Development

Gameplay Systems, Character Animations, QA, and more!

Unity
C#
Aseprite

Art and Music

2D Art, Custom Stickers, Piano

Clip Studio Paint
Etsy Store
LMMS

Game Development

With 6+ years of largely solo game development experience, I have learned a broad skillset consisting of art and design, programming and level design, as well as sound effects and music.

With my area of expertise being 2D games in Unity, I have been developing my indie game over the past year, Remix Mania.

Check out the steam page HERE!

Main Personal Project

Art and Design

I design and animate characters to clearly express movement and to easily import into Unity.
Parallaxing backgrounds and dynamic tilesets bring the world to life. I make sure to design them in a way to give depth to a 2D game and clearly express the gameplay’s intent.
I love to design engaging user interfaces that allow for unique interaction based on player input.

UI that clearly displays player information, while seamlessly moving out of the way when needed.

Process of animating the run cycle for the player character in Remix Mania

Pixel art dialogue box. Portrait swaps to different expressions based on what is set in inspector.

2D art dialogue box. Pose changes depending on the sentence, and mouth moves while spoken dialogue audio is playing.

Large background drawn in layers to give a parallax effect and loop within Unity.

Abandoned warehouse tileset featuring ground, background, and decoration tiles.

Scene from "Illusions Of A Hero" made for Brackeys 2022.1 Game Jam.

Art for "Gumball Gamble" for Brackeys 2025.2 Game Jam.

Game Design and Programming

After 6+ years of programming in Unity, I can quickly prototype new ideas and polish permanent systems.
As a gamer who tries to play as many different genres as possible, I seek to blend exisiting ideas into new, fun, and engaging systems for the player to experience.
The general idea I have going into every new system is to design it in a way to be applied anywhere. The better gameplay systems can interact with eachother, the better the gaming experience is as a whole.

A modular system that allows me to set what effects I want the player to have at any point. The UI also automatically adjusts to display the current “Remixes”

Controls That Feel Great

I make controls that feel and work great on both keyboard and controller, as well as allowing the player to interact with the enviornment in fun ways. Tiles even have unique data to effect the player in different ways.

Dialogue Systems

Here the character portraits change as they talk, text can be animated, and events can be triggered through dialogue. All of this is is developed to be used extensively in any scenario.

Graphic Design

I have experience in many different art programs, specializing in both Adobe Photoshop and Clip Stuidio Paint.

On top of graphic design, I have used many of these programs for animating. Using art programs like Clip Studio or Krita for my art, putting it togther in Adobe Premiere Pro, and utilizing Adobe Audition for audio editing.