Topdown RPG Game - BubbleBear Project

AgelosAp

Just started on this personal project just for fun and learning.
Me (artist) + wife (developer), we have torchlight as a strong source of inspiration both for game-play and graphic style.

So starting out with some character concepts, feel free to comment and criticize anything.

The story isn't completely fleshed so I won't mention much yet, these are for a druid and an angel playable characters.

AgelosAp

Did some more work on the concepts,
these are the three main characters that you will be able to choose from
and some random props to start establishing the world a bit.

Cay

I really love the girl with the red hair and the druid.. the white cloth draws a lot of attention upwards to the head, the important part of a character, same for the red hair.
Your warrior could need some more love I think ^^

take a look at the dota 2 style guide.. since you're tackling a top down view, right?
http://media.steampowered.com/apps/dota2/workshop/Dota2CharacterArtGuide.pdf

AgelosAp

Thanks Cay, I hadn't seen that guide so it is very helpful.
That warrior character is the one I spent the most time on doing many concepts,
but you are right he needs some adjusting to read better.

looprix

The guy with the big blues hands (2nd char. on your post) stands out the most. I can't recall anything like it. And it looks like he has a wooden sword. I pick him!

AgelosAp

Thanks Looprix, he is supposed to be a druid, the big hands will be part of his ability to transform parts of his body to animals and attack, he s the same character with the 1st on my last post.

AgelosAp

So finally got some work down on the druid char,
still a bunch of stuff to do in textures but wanted to get some feedback
as I 'm kind of starting to not see where this should go.

As for the mesh it 's at 15k tris right now with no hidden surfaces,
he has a body underneath the clothing :P and
the textures are separate for each item pretty much.

Screenshots are in 3ds with an ambient+direct with light shadows
probably the setup I 'm gonna aim for in game.

AgelosAp

This is the 2nd character I posted before, trying to reach an ok result in the concept.
Any feedback is appreciated!

Fenyce

I think he's still a little plain and boring. How about a tatoo? Maybe on the head/face or the right arm...

SaboR1996

Fenyce wrote: »

I think he's still a little plain and boring. How about a tatoo? Maybe on the head/face or the right arm...

or a scar, scars are generic, but bad ass nonetheless

AgelosAp

Hey peeps,
so taking into account what Fenyce and SaboR1996 said I tried incorporating more of his back-story to the design.

I haven't figured out the whole story yet but he is a fallen angel,
so when you guys said about tattoos and scars
I thought I could leave a mark from the fall.
So his left side has been burned by the fall and it made him
to this kinda dragon-like skin thing.
I 'm not happy with the legs but I don't know what to do,
maybe the pose is awkward?

I think I gotta go back and add some stuff to the druid too now, welp.
Any feedback is very welcome once more!

SaboR1996

Would like to hear some gameplay of this topdown rpg. topdown games are sweet and would love to see how you tackle it and make it unique in terms of the game mechanics.

and loving the changes of the character art. looking sweet.

Spoon

I really like those prop designs. Especially the cube tree

AgelosAp

Hey, long time since I added anything here but I did a staff sometime ago
as an alternate concept for the druid and thought I d upload.

toco

wow man! I loved it!
I realy appreciate your chars!
which engine you using to make this game?

AgelosAp

Thanks a lot toco, glad to hear that!
Actually I haven't even gotten anything in an engine yet, I m working on some portfolio
pieces and preferred to create other people's concepts, since I m not that good at it.
So any screenshots are either from 3ds max or Marmoset, although in time I will probably
use Unity as it is the engine I am fairly accustomed to.

toco

Oh right! keep going!
Good luck