Recollections from the Art-World blog - ZeppelinStudio

Posted in Graphics | Nov 27, 2012 | by Phil­ipp Schürz

So this is my first post about the design aspect of the game. Where to begin…
So much has chan­ged since we star­ted this pro­ject. I can’t even remem­ber exactly when that was.
In the begin­ning it felt like I was just try­ing to stay afloat. I was doing one asset at a time, try­ing to get “one of each” done just so that we wouldn’t have so many blanks and pla­ce­hol­ders. I wasn’t really thin­king much about cohe­rence. I just had a loose image in my head, of what the world(s) should look like and tried to make every new asset to kind of fit that.
I don’t know how many times I have com­ple­tely rewor­ked the plat­forms alre­ady! When we tran­si­tio­ned from a stu­dent pro­ject to some­thing we actually wan­ted to publish, it was obvious that this had to change.
I spent quite some time now on con­ju­ring up a couple of images that will serve as a guide for all future asset crea­tion. I can now say with some con­fi­dence, that the hard work is done! (not really though ^^) From now on, no second gues­sing, no major restruc­tu­ring. All major ideas for the looks of Schein have been com­mit­ted to paper and were appro­ved. There is a strong red line now that “only” needs be fol­lo­wed. If we star­ted this pro­ject today, I would do lots of things dif­fer­ently. But then again, that is one of the most gra­ti­fy­ing things about working on this game: loo­king back and rea­li­zing how far we have come and how much we have lear­ned. As indi­vi­du­als and as a team.