Lycanthrope: Spider artifact
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Hello! My name is Mattias Borgqvist and I am currently working on a shoot em up game based on the concept document “A game of beelonging” by group Ouroboros. This week I have been working on an enemy asset for our game, it is an spider that will hang down from the top part of the screen throwing balls of web towards the player which in our case is represented by a bee.
When first designing the spider I had a conversation with our lead designer of how the spider would function in the game and how he wanted it visually represented in the game world, a conversation which ended up with us deciding that the spider would hang from the top of the screen. I started to make some sketches which I later showed to the lead artist and agreed on that the spider should not look to scary since our game will be aimed towards kids, so after that conversation some of my sketches were abandoned like the one above to the left, it simply looked to realistic for our core audience.
(WIP) I continued sketching and found a style which we found more fitting for our game and I then moved on to making a clean up and adding color to see how it looked with flat colors. I am quite happy with the result which you can see above. it looks more abstract and the kids who will play our game will hopefully not think it looks like a scary monster which they may have done if we not decide to go with this art style. I have come a long way in the development of the spider but there is still things to improve, now the legs look a bit to floppy and it feels almost like an octopus so I probably need to add some rigidness to the legs and I will also play around a bit with the colors and facial features to get it to fit our game world and hopefully end up with a game that feels like a coherent experience. Enough said, back to the drawing board / Mattias
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