A high-top inline skate with three straps and four wheels, sculpted from silver contour lines

Roller Loop.

A racing game on rollerblades where you can return to an earlier position, keep your speed, and reach shortcuts.

Finalist Rookie Awards 2025

Go back. Keep your speed.

Roller Loop is a single-player racing game on rollerblades, built over eight months by 20 students at ISART Digital. You can return to an earlier position while keeping your speed, letting you reach shortcuts and find faster routes. Its computer-simulation setting combines a visual style inspired by the 2000s with a drum and bass soundtrack. Developed for PS5 and PC, the game is available on Windows through itch.io.

Role: Software engineering & UI design
Type: Video game
Stack: Unreal Engine 5.4.4 / C++ / Wwise
Built in: 8 months
Status: Released
Year: 2025

Designing and building the interface.

I designed and implemented Roller Loop’s complete user interface in Unreal Engine, covering menus, settings, the racing HUD, and results screens. My work brought the visual design into functioning screens and navigation, from choosing a track to reviewing a completed run. The desktop-inspired windows and controls give these different interactions a shared visual language.

Roller Loop’s desktop-style main menu with translucent windows, track and settings navigation, and a taskbar with controller prompts — The main menu brings the game’s desktop-inspired interface into view. Capture from the official breakdown / Roller Loop team, ISART Digital.

From software systems to player feedback.

Beyond the interface, I contributed to the game’s underlying software systems and visual effects that communicate speed. The UI makes the state of a run visible through elapsed time and current speed, then presents the result, personal best, and ranking. Together, these screens show how application data becomes useful feedback at each stage of the experience.

Roller Loop’s track selector with Entry A01 selected, medal target times on the left, a leaderboard on the right, and track previews along the bottom

Track selection brings previews, target times, and rankings together. Official screenshot / Roller Loop team, ISART Digital.

Roller Loop racing interface with the timer above the track, speed indicator at the bottom right, and yellow trails behind the skater

Roller Loop’s Access Granted results screen showing a personal best, leaderboard, and retry and quit controls

The in-race interface and results screen. Captures from the official playthrough / Roller Loop team, ISART Digital.

Awards

Rookie Awards finalist

Roller Loop was a finalist in the Game of the Year: Console & PC category at the Rookie Awards 2025.

The Rookies finalist badge with a gold laurel wreath

An international showcase.

Roller Loop was presented at Busan Indie Connect Festival 2026 in South Korea, alongside independent games from around the world.

Busan Indie Connect Festival 2026 poster with a colourful illustrated character and the festival dates — Busan Indie Connect Festival 2026 / Festival poster.

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