Region Splash Arts! | Patreon Weekly #213

Hey Patrons, in this weekly I’m going to share some more region splash art! These splashes were originally shared in Shattered Secrets #18 and #25.

Splash Arts

As a reminder, a while ago I got an email from Aleks asking if I was interested in doing more work with him. After some ideating back and forth, we settled on adding some environmental splash art! These splashes are planned to appear during the level transitions and will likely also appear when the player first enters a region and sees the usual lore text. Landscape users would see the entire art at once, while portrait users would get to see a particular slice of the art that would be different each time.

Firstly, here’s the sewers splash again. This is unchanged from when you last saw it in Weekly #177:

Next, here’s a finished prison splash, complete with much more ominous lighting and a skeleton!

The caves is the only region without a mostly completed splash art yet. Hopefully there’ll be something more to show off here soon, but at the moment you’ll have to imagine what the caves splash looks like.

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For the metropolis, we went for a very cool and ominous tone here, with lots of order in the structures and bookcases.

Lastly, taking the visuals for the demon halls and expanding them from a pixelated look to a more fully rendered one was tricky. Most obviously, there is a lot more you can get away with in pixel art than rendered art. I am not eager to change the game’s age rating of E10+, so accurately rendering grisly flesh zombies and spinning balls of flesh is right out.

With that in mind, Aleks did some design work first and then created a splash based on some slightly revised demon halls designs. For ripper demons, we could mostly get away with obscured details, but the demon spawners have been changed more significantly. I think things turned out very well indeed!

With the obvious exception of the caves, these splash arts are in a mostly final state at the moment, so as always your feedback is very helpful. Please let us know what you think! Aleks is currently juggling these with other work, so It’s a but up in the air when they’ll get added to the game.