The website design needed to be immersive and interactive to match the energy of the game experience. Most of all, the design needed to be authentically Warhammer and match the look and feel of the original game. The Framework design team led discovery sessions with the client to establish the overall look and needs of the website, and then collaborated with Roguesides design team to gather branded assets for use on the site.
The Framework designers began to put together a design for the overall site. We wanted the site to be as immersive as possible, and so numerous animated assets were used to provide a gameplay-like experience. For instance, we implemented a custom cursor of a cross hair, which when the user clicks, shows a small explosion as if a shoota has been fired. Additionally, we added a preloader of a weaponised crocodile to the site design to keep the theme constant even while the site is loading.
One key feature of this website was the use of parallax to make visual elements move across the screen at different speeds. This was used in the header and also for elements placed horizontally across the page. These highly curated microinteractions made the site as interactive as possible.
The developers also added a custom smooth scroll to the website to provide a consistent experience across browsers and mimic the experience of working your way to the end of a video game. Moreover, as the brief required the website to be just one page, the smooth scroll functionality was key in helping users digest multiple pieces of information about the game.
Rogueside had requested a way to encourage users to sign up to their newsletters. In response, the development team implemented a custom mailchimp integration at the bottom of the page to allow users to easily sign up to correspondence.
