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During our expedition through Weaving Tides’ world we created a sketch of its wondrous plants that we wanted to share with you!
Gosh, I haven’t posted for ages. Here are some sketches of my new game project. It’s a game set in a completely woven world, so naturally all the plants are made of textile : D
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Thoughts on NIVA
I actually discovered NIVA through some of the people I follow on Twitter, and it immediately reminded me of Journey. The art style combined with the “pacifistic” game play (as the developers of NIVA called it), and even the music, was reminiscent of Journey.
Basically you are a forest god who can nurture or wither plant life, and your goal is to cure the forest from a moth-like infestation. The ambiance and environment art of the game is on point, because you start the game in what is clearly a healthy piece of the forest and the entire color palette changes as you venture deeper and discover the areas with are infested. It is extremely beautiful.
There is also something extremely soothing about the color choices and mystical creatures in the game, combined with the music. The only thing that slightly dampened this for me was my frustration with trying to figure out how to rid the forest of the infestation. I had no trouble withering away the obstructions in my path or growing the plants which brought forth hungry wildlife, but when I got to the infested sections there was clearly a more complex series of steps, and neither nurturing nor withering the plants in the area seemed to do the trick.
In this way the game diverted from Journey somewhat significantly, because I never felt particularly challenged by any of the puzzles in that game. In that way Journey was somewhat more soothing, but also a bit more simplistic.
A few small things I think the developers could improve on: the camera angle, and the ground detection for the character. Although it was occasionally useful to be able to control the camera around my character, it was oriented a little too horizontal to the ground, making it so the camera would sometimes position itself behind a bush and I would not be able to see my character. Ground detection was less of an issue, but the forest god did occasionally fall through bits of the landscape.
I say this knowing the developers recommended to play the game with a controller, and all of my Xbox controllers are sadly wireless so the only PC controller I have is the one for Steam which I was too lazy to configure.
Anyway, overall I was very impressed by NIVA and really enjoyed the experience. I was inspired to see that it was developed with Unity, which is the platform I am currently learning. It is awesome to see what Unity is capable of and awesome to see more people developing games which provide some soothing relief and relaxation. For people who want to play a game that is both unique and takes your breath away with its beautiful visuals, I highly recommend playing it.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on NIVA and for the constructive feedback. It was a pleasure to read. : )
Happy New Year to all of you wonderful people out there! I wish you all the best for the coming year and the strenght to follow through with all of your New Years resolutions : D I also want to use this opportunity to thank all of the people who have played and supported our game NIVA. You guys are absolutely amazing I would have never imagined that our little game would get so much positive response. So thank you from the bottom of my heart and I hope some of you will also be there to check out our future projects. I promise we will continue doing our best to keep making inspiring and unusual games!
This is one of those sketches which I really want to color, but everytime I try I mess it up :’D maybe I will find some inspiration for it during my holidays.
A concept of a british warship captain. This was done for an assignment and I was actually quite surprised at how much fun I had with this since it was really out of my comfort zone which mainly consists of animals, women and nature :’D I still want to refine the hair and eye area a bit, but that will have to wait for now.
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Taking some time off of designing the main character to think about the movements of the weavers within the world. With their endless ribbon-tail they can weave through the surfaces of the world, can close gaps between land masses, or tie up paths behind them. I’ve had these movements in my head for a while now, but when sketching them out new ideas suddenly pop up and the whole picture becomes more concrete. Next I’d like to sculpt a maquette of the main character do be able to draw him from different angles and understand his anatomy better for animation. (I could do this in Maya, but I figured using clay would be more fun, hah!)
The disc tree as we called the trees I designed for the dark forest of NIVA needed to have as little vertexes as possible so we could make a really dense area of conifer trees. (We already knew this thanks to the red leaved trees in the general forest which really eat up a lot of performance) So I came up with this design which consits of large discs instead of branches with individual small needles on them.
One of my personal characters “Zill” He is kind of a merchant dealing with informations and suspicious potions.
Some silhouettes to explore the design for the main character of a game idea which has been in my head for quite a while now. The design is inspired by Rays, butterflies and kites.
These are two of the critters which can be found in the game. I really loved working in this style and there would have been so many more creatures and many more ideas which I would have loved to see in the game, but when you are working with a small-ish team not everything makes the cut (of course this is actually also true for bigger productions) . Now that NIVA is already released and we are getting much more attention than I ever expected (honestly I really expected only our friends to be interested in this and that’s it :’D) I am feeling all emotional and shaky....aaah let me just love you all.
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NIVA
developed by students at the University of Applied Sciences in Salzburg, Austria
Platforms: Windows, Mac
“A pacifistic exploration art game.”
“The player slips into the role of a mighty forest god to restore the harmony in a mesmerizing forest and relieve it of a mysterious infestation. This shuddersome, mothlike infestation is drawn to the conflicts of the forest’s inhabitants.
“Through observation and by using the abilities of nurturing and withering fascinating plants, the player can solve said conflicts. NIVA’s scenic art style, relaxing music and simple but intriguing game mechanics invite you to explore the forest and have a rest from the stressful everyday life.”
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Some of the gifs made from a video by @tookipalooki
via Little Wolf Studio
Thank you for making these beautiful gifs. And oh good lord I can’t believe how many notes this has got already... our little game, this is really insane. Everybody ;_; ... just thank you so much for all of you who are playing it, it means so much to me. And if anybody has questions feel free to drop me a message.
A few trees I designed for the forest of NIVA. The first one is a main game element which nourishes the forest with it’s energy when the forest god jumps through it’s ring. The other two are standard trees. The game will be released within the next few months and I’m really excited to show our work to the world!
Some of the Visual Development pieces I did for the game NIVA: www.facebook.com/nivagame/ The enchanting look of the game is inspired by Mary Blairs and Eyvind Earles works for Disney.
Niche Gryphon Concept
Yay I started an art tumblr <3 first off is a little concept idea I did for the lovely people working on the project @niche-game
