As a passionate gamer and developer, I embarked on a journey to enhance the user experience of Cyberpunk 2077, a highly anticipated game that left a gap in character planning. During my playthrough, I encountered challenges in strategizing perks and skill assignments due to the absence of a planning mechanism. Additionally, the lack of detailed perk stats until points were spent hindered the overall clarity of the perk system.

As a personal project, the Cyberpunk 2077 Fan Tool is a mobile app that attempts to bridge the gap between gamers’ needs and the intricacies of in-game systems to provide a more enjoyable experience.

Problem Statement

• Absence of a character planning mechanism.
• Inadequate information about perk stats prior to point allocation.

Objective

To create a user-friendly and intuitive tool that addresses the challenges faced during character planning in Cyberpunk 2077.

Design & Development Process

Research and Analysis:
• Analyzed in-game challenges related to character planning.
• Identified the need for a tool to provide detailed perk information before spending points.

Design and Prototyping:
• Developed wireframes for the user interface to ensure simplicity and ease of use.
• Prototyped key features including perk lookup, skill rewards, and perk points assignment planning.

Development:
• Utilized Unity3D to build the mobile application.
• Integrated data from the game to ensure accurate and up-to-date information through CSV files.
• Iteratively refined the app based on user input, ensuring a seamless user experience.

Features

Perk Lookup:
• Users can easily search and view detailed information about each perk.
• Access to perk stats without the need to spend points for experimentation.

Skill Rewards:
• Clear presentation of skill rewards associated with each perk.
• Helps users plan their character’s skill progression more effectively.

Perk Points Planning:
• Interactive tool for planning perk point assignments.
• Allows users to strategize and optimize their character build before committing points.

Results

• The Cyberpunk 2077 Fan Tool has garnered 5.4k active installs.
• Positive reviews highlight the app’s contribution to a more informed and enjoyable gaming experience.
• Continual updates based on user feedback have solidified its standing as a valuable companion for Cyberpunk 2077 enthusiasts.

Highlighted Reviews

The app is well made. Great layout, easy edits, multiple slots for different builds, and easy to read descriptions. Finally updated for 2.0 and was well worth the wait. Adds are non-intrusive, but I would gladly pay to remove them to support the developer.

Perfect little app, does exactly what it says and has a picture perfect interface. And it’s up to date so it’s one of two tools that currently are!

I think it is a wonderful application, because it allows you to see and design your perfect character, it has all the skills in order and in a good interface both to manage and see the skills and a list of skills in which we can see the level needed to improve them and their characteristics, I highly recommend it for people who want to see what level should raise the skills depending on your way of playing. – (Translated from Spanish)

Excellent application to manage skills depending on the way you play. The interface is quite comfortable because it arranges the skills in the style of the game and in the form of a list, which allows you to see more easily the required levels and the characteristics of the advantages. It is easy to use, thanks to this one can see what skills to use and what to spend points on first to progress in the story. I really liked the app, I recommend it, I hope it comes out for PC. – (Translated from Spanish)

Perfect for building builds before embarking on a first or new game. I recommend it to all lovers of building on the superb game that is Cyberpunk 2077! – (Translated from French)