We've all seen the fantasy castles with insane proportions, run-down, realistic modern urban environments and most things in between when it comes to game environments. If I wanted to start modeling, texturing and lighting an interesting environment that you've never seen before, what theme(s) would put me on the right…
Renaissance Italy. Classical era Greece. Ancient China. The Australian outback. There are lots of cool environments and eras that haven't been explored in real time at all.
bog of eternal stench maybe? something from one of those labyrinth/dark chrystal movies, or in that sort of drawn, magical aesthetic. I think it's not neccecarily the environment that makes the difference though its how you tackle it. maybe you could put a new spin on a tired genre like ww2
well, i can only think of 2 games which takes place at an exotic island... 90% of games seems to be in some sort of post-apo environment, aka WW2 big city warzones, gears of war being only one of numerous examples. very few games seems to be set in the countryside however, or on a mountain, hilly area. there also seems to…