Dead Station [Student Game Project]

Louomi

Hey!

We are a bunch of students (Ten, to be exact) attending our second year at The Game Assembly in Malmö, Sweden. During two years, we make eight games and we are currently working on our seventh - an FPS.

Our team, Seldom Seen Games are working a horror/zombie/strange game, called Dead Station, set in an abandoned train/subway station. A dark, dilapidated setting lit up by colourful emissives and your occasional glowing mushroom. The deadline is due in a week, but I thought I'd take some time to post some screenshots, renders-for-viewing-purposes and whatnot. Some of the content has already been posted in the WAYWO-thread (guns, zombies...), but I'll do some reposting and new posting.

Some specifications:

● The game is made in 9 weeks (half speed the first 8 weeks, then full speed the last week)
● We are 6 artist and 4 programmers.
● The game engine is written entirely by our programmers in C++ though we use Havok for collision.
● All the content is produced by us - Mainly in Maya, Photoshop and ZBrush.

Art Team:
Ronja Melin – www.ronjamelin.com
Oskar Stålberg – www.oskarstalberg.com
Simon Lindwall – www.simonlindwall.com
Ricky Chau – www.rickychau.com
Filip Ericsson – www.filipericsson.com
Nicodemus Sandberg – www.karadram.com

Code Team:
Alexander Szmidt –
Christoffer Warkentin –
Benjamin Fahlgren –
Gary Au –

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Screenshots:

The light and the reflections are somewhat off in the pictures, since our ambient light isn't working correctly, cubemaps don't blur the right way and some of the places are pitch black so I had to fire my flare gun to light them up.

Louomi

Weapons, zombies, props...

Jesse Moody

texture res seems all over the place...

what size is the texture on this

letronrael

i dont get it, there is like 4 different styles in the project.

megalmn2000

I think the main problem of the game is about the art direction. The objects don't fit each other on the scenes. I see some inspirations from Team Fortress, Crysis 2 and Left 4 Dead, which are, completely different art styles. I would suggest someone to be assign at this task so everything will match each other.

wirrexx

megalmn2000 wrote: »

I think the main problem of the game is about the art direction. The objects don't fit each other on the scenes. I see some inspirations from Team Fortress, Crysis 2 and Left 4 Dead, which are, completely different art styles. I would suggest someone to be assign at this task so everything will match each other.

Felt the same thing, It feels like your art direction is all over the place.
Otherwise i think you are doing a good job, so all i have to say is, forts

Ace-Angel

Whoever made the;

Zombie~
Litter Box~
Environment Pieces like the Rock and Grey Walls~

Need to be slapped on the head.

megalmn2000

Ace-Angel wrote: »

Whoever made the;

Zombie~
Litter Box~
Environment Pieces like the Rock and Grey Walls~

Need to be slapped on the head.

I don't think it's necessary but yeah, some props need to raise their quality bar to be the same as the best stuffs (like the gun). On a portfolio, people will judge you from your weakest piece. So, good luck!

Darkleopard

Ace-Angel wrote: »

Whoever made the;

Zombie~
Litter Box~
Environment Pieces like the Rock and Grey Walls~

Need to be slapped on the head.

Its called tact, try to use a little

Like everyone else has said the art direction seems a little messy.

Limewax

For me, I look at this space and I begin to wonder what the story is... a lack there-of, I guess you could say. Granted you have these pieces in place where there MAY be a story, but right now I am not really getting that either from the screenshots that you've posted (doesnt tell enough) or it might chime in on what others are saying about the art direction.

Personally, I am not a HUGE stickler for story... but I do believe the most successful environments have at least SOME resemblance of a story. I want to be able to look at your environments and ask myself "what happened here?" and right now, I am not getting that feeling. I wish I could give you suggestions, but any suggestions I would give you could only bias your potential direction for the future of this project.

Aside from that, visuals, I am liking the feel of things, just tie that art direction together... best of luck.

Rednaz

Other than the art direction, I think you should also work on your lighting. Right now some area's are very dark or very bright. The reflections are also a bit over the top, especially in the metro tunnel. In the dark area's you can maybe add some low intensity lights with some dark purple or blue colors to make the shadows less dark and a add a little color to them. You probably dont have time to adjust this, but maybe you can use it in your next project

samsonite

Ace-Angel wrote: »

Whoever made the;

Zombie~
Litter Box~
Environment Pieces like the Rock and Grey Walls~

Need to be slapped on the head.

I made the zombie. Getting slapped might improve overall quality sometimes but I'm more interested in some real critique. What do you think I am doing wrong and what should I do about it?

Thanks everybody for taking an interest in our game

wirrexx

samsonite wrote: »

I made the zombie. Getting slapped might improve overall quality sometimes but I'm more interested in some real critique. What do you think I am doing wrong and what should I do about it?

Thanks everybody for taking an interest in our game

What i can point out on the zombie is. It's a good looking Modell, but it feels more like an undead for me. Limbs should be off, more clothing to show that it used to be human.. Maybe torn clothing?

couple of examples.











The texture work could be improved, it looks like the blood (maybe supposed to be coagulated) but seems to be more "oil-ish".

Well i hope this could be helpfull!