About
Leila
Creative Director · Dead Spark
Hi, I’m Leila
My name is Leila, but my friends call me Leiloo. I’m a game designer and digital artist, and Creative Director at Dead Spark, the studio behind my games. I create my own characters, build the worlds they live in, and turn them into games in Unity.
This site is where the work lives — finished pieces, sketches and concept art, process notes, and tutorials for the tools I use every day.
- Procreate — sketches, painting, and most of my character work, drawn on iPad.
- Adobe Photoshop — finishing, color work, and detail passes.
- Autodesk Maya — 3D modeling for game assets and prototypes.
- Corel Painter — for the days I want a more traditional feel.
- Unity — the game engine I ship in. All my games are built here.
Shark’s Request is Dead Spark’s first title, and it grew from one game into a small universe: three releases, one world, the same cast. Every part of it is mine, from the characters to the mechanics.
- Shark’s Request — my own game, built from scratch in Unity.
- Shark’s Request: Halloween — seasonal spin-off with new art and mechanics.
- Shark’s Request: Christmas — the holiday version.
- Goubli — an experiment in mood and pace.
- Destroy The Festival — chaos energy in game form.
Each one taught me something about scope, feedback loops, and what’s worth keeping. Posts in the Game Development category go deeper into how any of this gets made.
- Art — concept art, character work, sketches, and finished pieces grouped by project or theme.
- Archive — every post on the site grouped by year. Filter by category (Game Development, Cookbook) with the pill bar at the top.
- Cookbook — short, practical recipes for Procreate, Photoshop, Maya, and Unity. Tested by me first, written for people who learn best by doing.
Leila
Game Designer · Digital Artist
heyLeiloo — characters, creatures, and the games they live in.