Smash Bros.


Developed a site for buying all things Smash Bros. Including: game versions, DLC, accessories, and special offers.

Dedicated Smash Bros. site

Developed a site for buying all things Smash Bros. Including: game versions, DLC, accessories, and special offers.

Smash Bros. characters have a special "top-secret" security level clearance. Which meant I would know a new character was coming, but wouldn't know who, or have any assets. I componentized the site to allow me to add a character with a simple JSON entry, to get the page live minutes after announcement.

Secure, and rapid deployment

Smash Bros. characters have a special "top-secret" security level clearance. Which meant I would know a new character was coming, but wouldn't know who, or have any assets. I componentized the site to allow me to add a character with a simple JSON entry, to get the page live minutes after announcement.

With our quick turn-arounds, the page would re-use the same assets. This sped up the authoring (JSON entering). There was only 1 JSON entry per character. This data was used to populate both the top vertical blade sections, as well as the more detailed section for each character.

Author once, render everywhere

With our quick turn-arounds, the page would re-use the same assets. This sped up the authoring (JSON entering). There was only 1 JSON entry per character. This data was used to populate both the top vertical blade sections, as well as the more detailed section for each character.

The site went through a few different versions. This was one of the earlier designs. With the announcement of a second Fighters Pass on the way, I took this to design and requested something that scaled a little better, to allow for quicker, and easier deployments.

Site versions

The site went through a few different versions. This was one of the earlier designs. With the announcement of a second Fighters Pass on the way, I took this to design and requested something that scaled a little better, to allow for quicker, and easier deployments.

As with all Nintendo websites, I built this to work in English, French, and Spanish. Our purchasing has to happen from the correct locale, so where there are two buttons like this (US, and Canada), I created a special redirect that opened the correct locales purchasing modal without any ubrupt page changing experience.

Localized

As with all Nintendo websites, I built this to work in English, French, and Spanish. Our purchasing has to happen from the correct locale, so where there are two buttons like this (US, and Canada), I created a special redirect that opened the correct locales purchasing modal without any ubrupt page changing experience.