Peripeteia

Bonus: More Accurate Version.

Bonus: More Accurate Version.

This post will study the art direction of one of my favourite games, Peripeteia.

Peripeteia is an "immersive sim" game, where you play a cybernetic woman named Marie in a cyberpunk-ed, alternate history rendition of Poland during the Cold War. The art direction (textures, models, etc.) are intentionally quite crusty and low detail in the model quality. The textures are quite low resolution, but hold all the detail for the characters, items and architecture. I find that the crusty-ness, besides it's use to make the game feel older, weaves itself in with the lore and story of the game very well - considering the Cold War setting, having your materials, people and weaponry reflect that with the way they look is something I find very fascinating and cool.

I'll certainly be holding the crusty, low resolution textures in mind when creating materials for my models. Looping back to the texture quality reflecting the game's atmosphere and story, I think having the textures be this way in my work would reflect my protagonist's decline.

Images/videos have been sourced from EuroGamer and the 90s.Graphics website.