Game UI
Knotline combat HUD
Readability passes for combat and objective HUDs on a shipped multiplayer title.
Shipped on live seasons
Game UI designer
Cole Brennan
I design HUDs and menus that stay readable when the fight is loud. Early career, deliberate about the craft under fire.
Austin, TXOpen to game UI roles and select freelance
Featuring
2024 - present
UI Designer, Knotline Games
HUDs, menus, and live-season flows.
2023
UI Design Intern, Tether
Inventory and loadout flows; playtests.
2021 - present
Freelance UI for game jams
Menus and HUDs under weekend constraints.
Craft departments
I design game HUDs, menus, and in-match feedback for multiplayer titles.
Known for
- HUD design
- Readability
- Game jams
Current focus
- Combat UI
- Menus
- Playtesting
Selected productions
Menus
Seasonal menus & rewards
Menu and reward flows for live seasons without a tutorial rewrite each time.
Live at Knotline
Freelance
Game jam UI
Menus, HUDs, and pause flows for a dozen student and indie jams.
12+ jams shipped
With distinction
Knotline Games
Tether intern
12+ jams
A note from the production
UT Austin BFA, a dozen freelance jams, a Tether internship, then Knotline Games. The work is whether a player can still read the interface when the screen is noise.
Commentary
Design for the loud moment
A HUD that only works in a quiet mock fails the product. Playtest combat and panic.
Production notes
- Where is Cole in their career?
- Early: UT Austin BFA 2024, Tether internship 2023, UI designer at Knotline Games since 2024.
- What is Cole looking for?
- Game UI roles and select freelance.
- What does Cole bring?
- HUD readability under fire and jam-hardened judgment about what to cut.
Distribution
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