BEAT-EM-UP | ZacD

ZacD

The Plan

• I'll be using Unity, but trying to make it look as current gen as possible (normal maps, light maps, etc etc)

• Something original and fresh, not an old school remake.

• It's main purpose is a portfolio piece, but it may turn into a web-game after the contest is over.

Challenges

• Finishing the project and having it on par with the top entries.

• A cool map that you'll want to play in, but it also tells a story.

• Coming up with an original look and style that works

Hope everyone has fun with this contest, and enjoys my piece!


Reference Material

http://www.brokencrow.com/johnpaintings?page=2

Story

To be decided

Concept Art

To be made

ZacD

My intuos4 broke (usb jacks broke) so I'm going to have to experiment with different concepting methods, I got an idea down so expect so more updates soon.

ZacD

One of the key things I want to focus on is transitions and destruction, I stitched together a bunch of pieces by John Grider, I really like his style and use of color.



Art work by http://www.brokencrow.com/johngrider

(the first piece I removed a giant goat, cause this project is about the environment :P)

[HP]

Wow, that is some peculiar art style. I'm very very curious to see how your going to use it and apply it in a game environment!

Good luck man, got my eye on this one too!

Ben Apuna

Wild stuff!, I'm looking forward to seeing this progress.

Sorry to hear about your wacom I hope you get that fixed up soon.

Kaneth

Its going to be interesting to see how you tie those art styles together without it looking 'wrong'

Moosey_G

Kaneth wrote: »

Its going to be interesting to see how you tie those art styles together without it looking 'wrong'

What do you mean by wrong?
To Zac: I'm highly interested in this art style.

ZacD

This is that color transition I'm going for, and in order to have the progression I want, its going to have to have a ~1:20 ratio, been doing some style tests, I'll post some of the results soon

Kaneth

This ^^

Got a clear understanding of how your going to blend the 2 distinct colours so it doesn't look out of place.

I think it would look wrong if it was, blue blue blue. RED!!! RED!!! etc

Metta

My interest is definitely piqued with what you've chosen to do, Zac. Can't wait to see more, I love your level color-transition. Lots of opportunity for the color to set the mood and tone for different parts of your level. Watching eagerly!

ZacD

Here's kinda the plan with the different areas

Calm Before the Storm (Blue)
Suburbia crammed cookie cutter house






Dark Stormy (Gray-Purple)
Ghetto suburbia






Riot/War (Fire)
City







Remnants modern society (post apocalyptic Brown)










post post apocalyptic :P (gray brown)

LoTekK

Really liking the transition idea, and you've got some nice themes and moods going on with your references. Definitely looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

Mike Yevin

Wow, I love the transition idea you have going on. The colors are really great at representing the mood you wish to convey.

My vote goes to making it a web game

TootingChicken

I'm excited to see how this turns out - think you've got seem really interesting ideas and a solid style pinned. Good luck!!!

ZacD

A really though block out.
I'm mostly trying to figure out how much ground/sky/background I want showing, I THINK I'll have the furthest background objects ~100% self illuminate, mid ~75%, up close, ~50%, and there's going to be separate models/textures for each distance.

I'm actually thinking about printing out the UV's and hand drawing the textures with pen/air brush.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2184180/Website/Beatuptemplate.html
(arrows/wasd + space)

Snowman

coming along nicely keep it up