A few sketches for level design. Tiny Thrones is a project I have been tinkering on for a long time. The game is a Sokoban/puzzle game.
Character lineup sheet
12th December 2019 in Blender, Exactamundo, game design, game development, Games
I did this sheet for marketing. It is just a small handful of the stylized figures available in the game.
Exactamundo screenshots – day/night cycle
12th December 2019 in Blender, Exactamundo, game development, Games
Nice shot from the dark side. The whole day/night cycle is a themed color system running through some advanced custom shaders.
This shot shows the day lighting. The sun follows the character around (it is always day during gameplay).
There is a lot of difficult angles that is to be considered. The darkness to the right shows space and stars while the dawn to the left is starting to get color and dim the stars. It was important to get the toony light/color feel as smooth and natural as possible. The shader decisions is based on camera angle, position and zoom.
The spaceview has its own color theme. The surface atmosphere turns off when the player is pinching out towards space.
We are working hard on the game these days. Today we have started working with themes to get weather and colors work. Exciting stuff that changes the look and feel of the game dramatically on the fly.
Child Project – Train model dev shots. Cape Copenhagen 2017
4th July 2017 in 3D Artwork, 3DStudioMAX, GamesThis train with locomotive and carts was done for the Child project (3D Studio model – Shots from Unity). I have recently abandoned 3D Studio MAX and started learning Blender instead. I always found 3D Studio unpleasent and counter creative to work with. I am very happy working with Blender and stunned about how well it is designed. Blender is free and can be downloaded here.
Child is an experimental game demo about war seen trough a childs eyes. Set in some ww2’ish setting a little girl has to find her way through a world in chaos of war. Visual style is B&W 3D graphics with a toon’ish style. Game development is currently on hold until funding is found.
All mechanical parts on the model is animated and follows the wheel movement.
Shader is a simple half lambert with rim (fresnel). Shader Forge graph below. Screenshots from Unity scene. The fresnel creates a very nice rim around details and generel shape on the model. The pipes stand out with nice white lines adding a very nice toon’ish look to the picture. Further development of shader would be masking of areas where fresnel should have no effect, and maybe add a lightmap or vertex shadow support.
