WE ARE FOOTBALL 2024 is the sequel to the football management game WE ARE FOOTBALL, designed & layouted in CEGUI (an open source editor).

I worked on it from early 2022 till the release on the 4th of March 2024.

During the pre-production phase, I was given permission to redesign WAF according to today's modern standards and was allowed to propose a UX reorganisation of the main UI, an iterative process in which my initial designs were handed over to a team of UX experts. The feedback was implemented in the final version.

Apart from Art Direction and UX/UI, I was also responsible for Technical Art, Art Buying and all other 2D-graphics. It sure didn't get boring!

The following screens are some of the "core" screens which feature very important UI elements. Those elements are being re-used throughout the game.

This is just a small selection.

Another core feature of the sequel was the club colors. Depending on the club, the player is greeted with one of 16 color themes (which can of course also be changed manually in the settings).

I worked closely with our Frontend-Dev Dirk, together we developed a system that was simple to use in the Editor - all color values are being stored in an external simple .ini-text file.

A lot of playful ideas to shake up the number-heavy management.

The idea for the cabin seismograph spawned during a tense phase at a certain Bavarian football club...

WAF2024 has 200+ screens, maybe you can tell, there's a lot.

The updated start screen after we received the final key art from our publishing partner Handy Games.

My cover design for the official guide book.

If you're a football fan and are tired of the FM, give WE ARE FOOTBALL 2024 a chance! We're very proud of it :)