C H R O M A

A cyborg trapped in a life of crime. A secret facility holding a powerful substance. A heist that could change everything.

So, I've been working on the main character of the game for a good while now. This here is Dominic! name may change later

And this is how he started. I'm no master when it comes to modeling robots but I decided to get the proportions and basic idea down with a rough sculpt.

Rest is history retopology.

I ended up not liking the original design's face colors so I made him cuter with... white irises? It somehow works.

A little bit of dynamic cam movement doesn't hurt, right? We wanted a bit more than just a static camera looking at the different situations and we achieved this using Cinemachine's Dolly Track (a very short Dolly track...). Most of the time this won't have a big effect on the gameplay but we have thought about hiding extra lore and such in the far sides in certain situations. 😎

We finally got the color change on mouse hover working in 3D!! The purpose of this is to show player the object changing color can be clicked to get more information.

Thank you so much! The game's not exactly inspired by Ace Attorney though it's a good series.

Some of our main inspirations for the dialog/cinematics are from games FORECLOSED and Necrobarista. They both use 3D but also have this visual novel/comic style look.

Since C H R O M A is a visual novel which furthers plot with dialogue, we needed visuals for it. We wanted the text box's appearance to be animated and that the box would scale to the size of the shown text. The first tries of this were..... less than successful (but hilarious)...

But finally with blood, sweat and tears, the first iteration was done.

And now we have even polished it a bit as well! ( With a sneak peek of the "close up view" feature on the left 😎)

The game play elements involve clicking objects to gain further information.

Concept idea for the title menu and how it’s supposed to animate. You can still see our game’s placeholder name in the title.

And here’s the animation and setup for the actual game!