Rethinking Style

Post Alpha submission; nerves are high, and stress is running wild. Yet, we decided to rethink the style of game we wanted to produce. Pre-alpha, we were decided on a low poly style walking sim; taking inspiration from existing games such as Virginia, Firewatch, and Journey.

Yet, after reviewing the look of the grey-boxed environment we had produced, decided to steer from the low poly vibe, and adopt a higher poly stylised look; reminiscent of Hanna Barbera cartoons.

This resulted in a remodeling stage, wherein we took most of the models we made, and edited them to suite this new style.

Below is a comparison of the before and after.

gas_station

remodal_render

With This remodeling stage to be applied across the board, the next stages in the process will be to remodal and reimport these updated models into the game engine.