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Square Smash
Game App

Project Insights & Outcomes

A white-label mobile game app designed for the 7th-inning stretch at minor league baseball games, built to expand into sports events, live entertainment, and beyond.

Creative Direction
Art Direction
Product Design
Motion Design
Challenge
CitySolve had a Bingo-style concept for the 7th-inning stretch at minor league baseball games, where fans could win prizes and discounts. The visual direction was clear from the start. Everything else was not. The challenge was building an original game with its own logic, designing it to read on any phone at any age, and creating a platform flexible enough to sell well beyond baseball.
Approach
The client came with a rough idea. Everything else was mine to figure out. Bingo was the jumping-off point but was a copyrighted property, so I developed an original game with its own logic and playability. I reduced the tile count from traditional Bingo to improve game speed, adapt to different screen sizes, and keep the experience readable and fast. I developed the creative brief, visual mockups, and screen-by-screen flow maps the developer could use as build instructions. Ad placement was worked into the game structure to create a revenue model that offset the subscription cost, and icon packs were developed as a sellable add-on within the white-label platform.
Outcome
The app was beta tested at a minor league stadium. Team owners responded positively and requested alterations to suit their specific needs. The platform is currently in active development with a minor league franchise, with CitySolve's sales team pursuing additional partnerships across minor league baseball.
Role
Creative Direction, Art Direction, Game Design, UX Design, Illustration, & Motion Design.

Game
App
Screens

An overview of screens from the Figma file showing the user journey from launch through gameplay.

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Start Screen
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Instructions Screen
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Game Board Screen
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Connecting Squares
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Winner's Screen
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Sign Up Screen
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Apple Alert Modal

Game App Design

A selection of illustrated pictogram icons designed to read instantly at small sizes across movies, television, music, and baseball, unified in a single brand color so every subject reads as one system. The flat, reduced graphic style was chosen deliberately. It belongs to the same visual era as vintage baseball card design, meaning the icons reinforced the overall aesthetic rather than just solving a readability problem.

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Google Alert Modal
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T&C Page Sheet Modal
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T&C Alert Modal
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Account Sign-In Screen
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Apple Login Alert Modal
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Google Login Alert Modal
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Reset Password Screen
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Create New Password Screen
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Game
App Icons

A selection of illustrated icons designed to read instantly on small screens, unified by a one-color geometric style across subjects covering movies, television, music, and baseball.

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Beatles
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Queen
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Taylor Swift
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Star Wars
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Inspector Gadget
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Walk
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Homerun
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Stealing Base
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Strikeout
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Birthday Song

The flat, reduced graphic style was chosen deliberately. It belongs to the same visual era as vintage baseball card design, reinforcing the overall aesthetic of the game rather than just solving a readability problem. The single color treatment unifies subject matter with no natural relationship, movies, television, music, and baseball all rendered in one brand color so they read as one cohesive system.

The app name, Square Smash, came at the end of development with no backstory. Working from the name alone, the mark needed to function as a standalone brand identity independent of any sport or industry. The 3D treatment bridges two eras intentionally, vintage sports print on one side, early video game graphics on the other. Two squares in dynamic collision, a visual echo of the name and a literal nod to fingers smashing tiles on a touchscreen.

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Color Logo
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B&W Logo
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App Icon

Game Teaser Video

The teaser was an unexpected addition to the project, delivered with minimal resources and budget. The creative direction was to highlight the game's key beats in an inventive way rather than provide a full tutorial. It opens by showcasing how the white-label system can be customized for different organizations, then shifts to straightforward gameplay moments. The goal was impact over instruction. One video built to work as both a consumer-facing hype piece and a B2B sales tool across app store previews, social media, and direct sales outreach.

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