Searching for orientation at art style for game.
Hi, I am currently having trouble with deciding about the art style of an game I am going to develop and thus looking for references, thoughts and inspirations for it.
The game will be an topdown 2D RPG playing in an virtual reality (e.g. simulated/digital world). This digital world is mostly natural (large grasslands, forests, caves, vulcanos etc.).
Thoughts:
- Should be relativly mature (or atleast not "aw cuuute"), though not depressive.
- Shouldn't be as static as pixel art usually tends to be. (I planned to make this by doubling the resolution of the graphics and applying an zoom level which changes dynamicly, I am inspired by Aquaria for doing that, its a totally different kind of game, but I still think that that would do the trick)
- Lights tend to add a lot atmosphere to a game. I am planning to add shaders to calculate lights from lightmaps and normalmaps as well as for light dynamics. (Bright things in the darkness "glow" and stuff)
- Pixel or Raster art? 3D and vector most likely not because of effort and because they tend to be "soulless" on game-friendly resolutions. Pixel can become tedious to create on bigger resolutions, raster art is harder to control in general.
If anyone has something which could be helpfull, please tell. =)
I would help you but, I dont know what an exact style would be like to help you out. Everytime I think of top down rpgs I usually think of Fantasy rpgs like final fantasy. GTA 1 and 2 are the only ones i can think of that are alittle more modern. What do you think of GTA 2 game style?
Brandon Morris,
Steam Group: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/OpenGameArt
If you guys need any help on projects email me atBrandonmorris12@gmail.com. Pay is not mandatory and Im open.
With TopDown I mean (SNES) JRPG like. Sorry for beeing unspecific.
thats really hard then, I havnt seen too many mature looking jrpgs. cute and jrpg in my eyes seem to coincide.
Brandon Morris,
Steam Group: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/OpenGameArt
If you guys need any help on projects email me atBrandonmorris12@gmail.com. Pay is not mandatory and Im open.
3d art isn't souless!
It can be actually quiet neat
http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&tbs=isch:1&&sa=X&ei=xDVxTf6qMIWWswbll6WIDg&ved=0CDQQvwUoAQ&q=planescape+torment&spell=1&biw=1680&bih=931
http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&biw=1680&bih=931&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=septerra+core&aq=f&aqi=g5&aql=&oq=