David CastilloSenior UI Visual Designer

Marathon: Rook Alert Modal Animation

2026 · UI/UX

This is an animation I helped create during my brief time working on Marathon. When selecting Marathon's scav shell ROOK, players are making a semi-destructive action that results in their entire inventory being pushed to their vaults. This caused a lot of friction as the game wasn't making it clear to players what was happening to their items in the moment. As a solution, our team created this punchy modal to help broadcast to players the action they were taking in the moment.

My teammate Wolfie Davis (Sr. UX Designer) created the visual design for this modal and I handled the animation design to help the modal fit in with the rest of the game's interaction design style. Our colleague Hannah Chang helped implement the final modal design into the engine that was shipped in the final game.

Credits

Client
Bungie
Modal Visual Design
Wolfie Davis
Modal Motion Target Design
David Castillo
UI Tech Design
Hannah Chang
Marathon: Rook Alert Modal Animation — image 2
Visual Design for the modal done by Wolfie Davis