{"id":583,"date":"2010-01-24T08:36:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T08:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/?p=583"},"modified":"2010-01-24T08:40:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T08:40:55","slug":"game-art-styles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/game-art-styles\/","title":{"rendered":"Game art styles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>After posting my last sketch about my upcoming mystery \/ detective game Vera Blanc, I got some comments from people about the artstyle.<\/p>\n

Everyone seems to love the new style, and I’m a bit relieved since it was a bit a risk to move away from manga style (even if many said that Heileen was a mix between manga and american comics).<\/p>\n

Note that I will still make manga games too in future, but I also wanted to try a more realistic \/ comic style.<\/p>\n

Especially since in that style women looks better IMHO \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

Click on the image on the left to zoom in and look at the colors… only at the colors, eh! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

I played with saturation level based on suggestions of Jake, and indeed seems that it looks better to me too. I wanted to obtain a sort of comic look, but before the image was less saturated than the one I posted above, and while was ok for a printed comic I think this new version fits more a computer game.<\/p>\n

That’s just an example of what kind of fanservice you can expect from this series – yes, if things go well I plan to make a series of games. Another decision I had to take, which scares me, is to have multiple artists work on each “episode”.<\/p>\n

Like in comic books, where each episode would be drawn by a different artist. I had to take this decision if I wanted to release each episode at 4-5 months of distance, rather than 1 year \ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n

I hope players will understand my motivations!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Regarding art, if I had the money I would make all my games looks like the picture on the right: that’s a new screenshot from Planet Stronghold game, probably the most expensive I’m making so far in term of art and coding (and I hope it will do well!).<\/p>\n

Just for fun, I also wanted to post an image of one of my first games as indie: Universal Boxing Manager (see below).<\/p>\n

Ok, it’s true that simulation\/strategy games usually don’t need great art, however is fun for me to see how I started, and how the quality of the art in my games changed (in better of course!) over the years… \ud83d\ude42
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After posting my last sketch about my upcoming mystery \/ detective game Vera Blanc, I got some comments from people about the artstyle. Everyone seems to love the new style, and I’m a bit relieved since it was a bit a risk to move away from manga style (even if many said that Heileen was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,26,14,23,113,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dating-sims","category-development-screenshot","category-planet-stronghold","category-roleplay-games","category-tycoongames","category-vera-blanc","category-winter-wolves-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}