Week 3 -Designing a death screen
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Hello world ! In this new post I am going to talk about the death screen I made for our Game selfish. So, I was asked to draw a death screen to implement in our game. The screen is going to appear every time the main character dies and will be a transition between the actual time the player looses and starts again. Thus when I started making the screen, I wanted to put a game over and a continue with two choices (yes or no). In order to find inspiration I looked online at different death screen from lots of famous game such as Metal Gear or Donkey Kong Country, and I actually find the second one pretty interesting so I used the same kind of disposition for the “GAME OVER” letters. (and I remembered it also from playing the game when I was a kid, so nostalgia probably helped in that decision :p) I didn’t drew the letters myself because it looked terrible when I first tried to, so I used as a font called Snap ITC one that I really appreciate and that looks a bit cartoon in some way, which was exactly the type of typography I was looking for. To color the letters I chose two colors : Dark red and pale blue. I’ve chosen those two colors to contrast the blue of the bubble of water within the tank and the red of the blood from the dead fish. I added some bubbles sampled from the one an artist teammate had already made and I drew some blood stains by making them look like bubble of blood. Here again I did it with the intention of contrast with the bubbles which grow up with the “GAME” as an invitation to start again, and the blood stains that flow down with the “OVER” as an invitation to end the game. Here is the picture I sampled the bubbles from :
Finally, for the background I used a dark grey to start filling all the background and then I made it paler as much as it got to the top screen. This way you have the feeling I wanted to express that the top of the screen is the new life and the bottom of the screen is the death without any continuation since the player will quit the game. So here is the final result :
That is all for today’s blog, thank you for reading and see you next week ! /Axel
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