Flat sketches

Here is a video of the final prototype of the game!

hope you enjoy.

Inspirations

Recipe for backgrounds: Take a good base of Arctic Research stations – the wooden kind if possible Mix them up with a good 80’s and early 90’s retro mood, John Carpenter’s The Thing style! Sprinkle a good dose of Another World design You will get a procedural cake with a nice retro Taste.

For the drone visual I based my design on Gertie – from the movie Moon – who is very monolithic, with a basic figure and on a unicycle. This mix creates at first a comical effect but that can prove fatal…

For the hero – Zero I wanted to create the archetype of the badass hero movie, a mix of Kurt Russell and Sarah Connor. I created Zero. Because I have had enough of little princesses waiting to be saved. For me, well, the princess gets a grip, she gets on her bike and saves herself!

Execution

The prop modelisation is fairly simple, low-poly with a simple diffuse, hand painted with a Global Illumination on top. 2D hand-animated FX and particle mesh for the smoke.

Here is a little update of the fake screen illustration. Nice to have that in-game. RDV in a month, or 2...

Hello (eventual person who's reading this Tumblr),

Here is a Paint over for a fake target screen for the Zero Project.

What is it? A Hide and seak in an Dead arctic station.

A mecanic (zero) is trapped in the LAIKA Station. The Maintenance Drone is trying to "fix" her.

Reseting the drone is Zero objective. To do that she has to reach the radio broadcast system which controls it.

Zero has to reactivate the whole network by using computers.

Here is a lead for the futur game, cyrano in space, Full 2D This time.