CARTONEROS® Game - Concept Models

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CARTONEROS® is a game currently in development by us - Estudio Antropo™.

It is a unique hybrid between a digital video game and an analog board game. It is designed to be a fun and quick multiplayer game, where combat is not central to the experience.

Most of the time playing CARTONEROS® you will find yourself building crews of characters and leading the crews through dangerous expeditions to collect resources - yes, cardboard. Simply eliminating other players might not make you a winner, as games are won by acquiring more cardboard than your opponents.

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Feel free to comment on these, I will upload more over time.
Thanks

Laughing_Bun

there is definitely something interesting about these, they are also completely unreadable. I guess it will come down to how gameplay works.

Texelion

I agree with Bun, it's interesting but if you remove the legs of the characters they could be buildings, the weapons could be modern houses and the houses look like a bunch of boxes, which they are in fact ^^.

Odow

Everything looks the *almost* same ><

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Thanks for your instant critique. You are absolutely right. The idea was for all details to show via texturing. I have a paintover that shows how this could be done, but am not quite set on the final method.

Cheathem

I sort of disagree with the others, I like what you all have going here. I would love to see some of these textured. Keep up the coolness

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Thank you,

the models might be unreadable in their current form, being the low poly boxes that they are... It is hard for me to tell, I have been looking at these for a long time so I can read them pretty well

My son (6 year old test subject) also said that this image below, looks like a house ... so yeah, texturing (and animation) will probably show more. I will post some paint overs first, as I am looking for artists to work on the texturing.

Odow

Oh ! with the paint over it look instantly cooler ! I though the brown cardbox color was the final texture since you didn't mention anything about it :P

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Putting the assets to use in the game prototype. I am only teasing, I will reveal the gameplay in the coming weeks, in the mean time it'll be just these scene tests...
Again, models are untextured (just a tiling cardboard texture on them.

Looking for texturing artists/illustrators to cooperate with on that.

The game is playable on a flat board like a board game, which also needs to be covered line art illustration. Due to the board being divided into many box-like windows, I think it will be possible to divide between multiple illustrators easily. I'll explain if someone is interested in working on that.

The static scene tests, feel free to comment again, thanks.

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Character body. Goes underneath the armors, but is rarely seen, only after a character dies and his armor falls apart.

Bartalon

I also agree with Laughing_Bun. It's very hard to tell each character type apart, even up close. It only gets harder from a bird's eye view. If there is to be any strategy in this game, the player will need to be able to know which class he is up against in order to make tactical decisions. If you don't plan to change the class models, you should compensate with obvious differences in color, weaponry, animation, etc.

Imagine if you couldn't tell the difference between any of the Team Fortress characters. Think of the frustration!

silkroadgame

Wow,it's an amazing design!
Very special style!

ANTROPO

Thanks for comments,

- Yes it is difficult to distinguish them purely via shape, you are right. We plan on launching a playable version soon, so that we can continue to develop with player feedback. Therefore, the models will probably remain the same in this version, but will likely be changed or new models will be added later.

- But, we plan for each class to have a very different set of weapons, which should actually be the defining part of the visual representation of a character class. They are often as large as the characters body, so they are recognizable from the top overview. The weapons are therefore our primary way of distinguishing the classes, indeed. (color and animation are secondary)

-Also, we plan to making the game playable on mobile devices with view being controlled by user hand movement (we use a large augmented reality marker called boARd for that), where the player can by a simple hand movement zoom in on a character and read its status, so this kind of exploration will be a big part of the gameplay. This however will not be that simple on a stationary computer

Thanks guys, I'll post some next progress scenes later.

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Oh, I have a suitable image to explain the mobile interaction.
The mobile version of the game will be playable like this