The Arcanist’s Tower: Design and Testing

2025

Noodleboot


The Game

Foolhardy adventurers enter a magical tower full of secrets and danger.
Each have their own reasons to be there. Can you fulfil their quests? 
Can you escape with power and wealth, 
or will you be trapped inside forever? 

Dare you play the Arcanist’s deadly game?

The Project

At the beginning of 2025 I decided to take a month out of writing novellas to fulfil a long term ambition and create a table-top game. Over a year later, it’s been too much fun to go back to writing. It required:

» Creating a game system
» Designing a visual language
» Creating a design system
» Assembling a prototype
» Recruiting user testers

Design Tools

The game was designed in Figma, and image assets were created and imported from Photoshop.

AI Use

AI was used for character art illustration.

User Testing

The game has been tested over a period of 12 months with three test groups and is still being iterated on.

» View the user test report “Moments of Delight”