Today I took a break from working on the code for Escape the sector, and took a step back to do something artistic. I was getting a bit dismayed, working on modular sections, which for a long time I've only been seeing in isolation, and when I put it all together to create the levels... it didn't look quite as cool as I wanted.
So dismayed about the look and feel about the entire look & feel, I started to worry that it's something that just won't work. So just for an experiment tonight, I started to work on something to give me confidence that it actually *will* work.
Also, I love how nice MagicaVoxel makes it look with very little effort. If only it was as easy to replicate this look in Unity (something I’ve been trying with Escape Vector and Escape the Sector).
I always struggle with colours, creating a new palette doesn’t come naturally to me, so I used the one from my BotSumo game.
I’ve uploaded this model to Sketchfab, you can see it below. Although it’s unfortunate that I can’t seem to replicate the nice soft shadows, ambient occlusion and emission textures that makes MagicaVoxel models look so good.
