Hey, Indivisible backers!
A quick heads up: Lab Zero Games will be at
Anime Expo next week! We’ll have a
panel on Saturday, July 2nd at 5:45 in LP2, and we’ll have a booth in the Exhibit Hall at booth numbers 426/526. You can view more details for the panel
here. Don’t miss it!
Today we want to give you a close look at another area Ajna will venture through: the massive flying fortress we currently refer to as "Fortress Vimana."
The fortress itself belongs to Supreme Lord Ravannavar, whom you'll get a closer look at later on. In the meantime, we’ve done plenty of concepts for both the environment itself and the enemies you’ll encounter in the area. This update will focus on the Fortress Vimana environment, and we’ll tackle the enemies in a future update.
As always, please keep in mind that this is all early concept art and all designs are subject to change for the final game.
One obvious thing we’ve had to consider is the exterior of the fortress. Here are some of the ideas we’ve had so far:
But the majority of the time spent here will be inside this beast! Here are a number of concept pieces exploring what that might look like.
The thumbnail sketches above are small snippets of what a particular section of an area would look like, trying to establish the mood and tone of the environment.
Then we have some deeper explorations of the environment, playing with colors and trying to establish a palette.
At the same time, we’ve been working with the concept art house Aquatic Moon on “call-outs,” or more detailed renderings of props and other other elements that help fill out the environment and help our modelers realize these concepts in 3D. They’ve been concepting up a storm, providing a more granular look at how the environment can be built using various pieces.
Elements like these help us get a good idea of how we can design a set of modular assets to achieve a good amount of variation and make sure the level doesn’t feel too repetitive while still working with the general theme of the environment.
That’s all we’ve got for now - next time we’ll look at some of the enemies you’ll be squaring off against in Fortress Vimana.