“Somber Home” is an atmospheric horror game where the player takes on the role of a young boy named Jeremy, who desperately tries to find his mother who suddenly went missing somewhere in the house, but his task won't be easy, a storm made the power went out, now he has to wander around in the dark trough the hallways, but things beyond his comprehension start to happen.
With its atmospheric setting, tense gameplay, and haunting narrative, "Somber Home" delivers a gripping experience that will keep players on the edge of their seats as they journey through the darkness to uncover the fate of Jeremy's mother.
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Hello everyone! For today's DevLog, we will present you the steps of character design of Jeremy from "Somber Home". As you all know, Jeremy is the main character in our game and, after this long journey, we've finally finished with his character design.
Character Design
Thumbnails
For Jeremy's design, we started by testing thumbnails of children, experimenting with various poses and formats, in order to demonstrate a feeling of joy, leading to the result of the four images below.
Sketches
As for the sketches, we started by duplicating the thumbnail most voted for by us and some of our colleagues, which ended up being the most liked.
With this pose, we started experimenting with different styles of clothing in order to find the ideal portrait. After several attempts with the character's style, we started recycling some of the most liked drawings, thus having an appealing and captivating look.
Gray-Scale Sketches
After choosing the sketch, we started by covering it in gray-scale to see which result would be most appealing to the character, then adding a layer of color on top.
Detailed Sketch
Once we had chosen the best character for the game, we began to add texture to the previous design, giving it a more realistic and attractive look for the player's vision while in the experience. Shadows and glows were added around the body and the plush in order to reproduce texture to the character's portrait.
Color Studies
About the detailed sketch finished above, we ended up replicating it multiple times and giving each of them a different color style, in order to experiment with which visual aspect would be the best to offer for the game, being tested the various palettes that compare with the asthetic background of the different corners of the game.
At the end of an evaluation of the five characters, this was the winner selected for best demonstrating the lifestyle we wanted to give Jeremy.
We would like to inform you that the final result of the game will be revealed in a few weeks and that this long journey is about to come to an end.
Thank you for supporting us so far, and we'll see you next time!
Somber Home DevLog #10 - Pre Game Build
NewsHi everyone! Today we're posting here our current build, by adding the previously mentioned components.
Somber Home DevLog #9 - Visual Effects
NewsHello fellas. Today we are showing the results of level lighting and how we used URP to add it to our game.
Somber Home DevLog #8 - Gameplay Technical Details
NewsHello everyone! For today's log we're talking about a more technical area. Presenting you with the game's flowchart and the gamepley loop that the game...
Somber Home DevLog #7 - User Interface
NewsHello, everyone! We're showing you the interface for our game. We've decided on the color palette and typographic style we're going to use for our user...
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