HumanOverride

Human Override is an augmented-reality first-person shooter for Android, built under the Atharva Gaming Division. Robots pour out of portals that open in your actual room, street or campus, and you fight them through your phone camera. On a team of five, I designed the main menu, the in-battle HUD, the arsenal and weapon screens, the shop and chest system, and settings.

In a normal game the designer controls every pixel behind the UI. In AR the background is the player's camera feed: a bright window, a dark corridor, a busy street, changing every second. The interface has to stay readable and usable on top of anything.

• Unpredictable backgrounds, so contrast changes every second.
• Thumbs cover the screen, because the phone is held in landscape with both hands.
• Players are moving, so glanceable beats detailed.
• Outdoor glare washes out thin, low-contrast UI.

Before designing anything I studied Hunting Clash, a mobile shooter with a mature weapon economy, for how it presents guns, stats, upgrades and chests, and worked out what would and would not survive the move to a landscape AR game.

• Adopted: stat bars on every gun so weapons compare at a glance, a card collection that unlocks the next upgrade level, a power rating badge, and chest tiers as the reward loop.
• Adapted: portrait layouts became landscape, bright cartoon panels became dark sci-fi frames, and dense gun lists became fewer, larger cards that still read on a camera feed.

• 01

  A HUD with a clear centre

  Everything at the edges inside one glowing frame, because in AR the middle of the screen is where the player is aiming.

• 02

  Two fire buttons

  One under each thumb, so players can shoot with either hand without changing grip.

• 03

  Readouts where thumbs rest

  Health large and bright, weapon and ammo above the left thumb, score centred at the top where the eye rests between targets.

• 04

  Arsenal and weapon info

  Fewer, larger gun cards with stat bars and a power rating, so weapons compare at a glance mid-session.

• 05

  Shop and chests

  Three chest tiers with the price on the button, and an open sequence that earns the reward rather than just granting it.

• Design for the worst background. Testing on real phones in real rooms showed thin lines and flat colours vanish on camera; glow and double outlines fixed it.
• The centre belongs to the player. Every iteration moved something out of the middle of the screen, because in AR the world is the content.
• Concept fast, build carefully. Quick mockups explored the chest and arsenal moods early; the final, buildable UI was then drawn in Figma.

Live on Google Play under the Atharva Gaming Division, with 500+ downloads and a 4.1 star rating.