Abraham's Lantern: character design for my first videogame.

in #gems3 years ago

Hello, hive world!

This past week I decided to join the international event of creating a videogame from scratch in only 48 hours, the Global Game Jam. A unique experience I've been craving my whole life only I didn't know anything about it, until now.

This massive event consists of creating a brand new videogame by a team of 4-5 people based on a secret theme carefully selected each year and only revealed minutes before the event starts.

This year's secret theme was 'Lost and Found'.

I got my team ready, conformed by people I was first meeting at that same moment, and decided to create a game about a loner teenage boy locked out in a house that refused to let him go until he found the parts of himself lost along the way of an impaired relationship with his parents.

Since I was the only artist on the team, designing the main character was my task, and here it is.

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A boy named Abraham confined in a house full of spirits he had to fight using a flashlight.

This was merely a sketch, only an exploration of how the character will look like. Later I had to adapt this design to a miniature version of it that would represent the properly moving character in the videogame.

It was intended to make the initial phase of the videogame almost black and white, with cold tones and a lonely atmosphere, but the same would slowly increasing in color at the same time Abraham would collect back the pieces of himself.

So I had to make a cold version of Abraham and a warm final healed version, as well.

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I'm happy to affirm that maybe I finally found what I want to make for a living :)

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Thank you for reading!

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Goodmorning dear and I congrat you on finding and stating : I'm happy to affirm that maybe I finally found what I want to make for a living :)

That’s great and I know you will do great !

Thank you very much, Britt ❤️ I appreciate your company during this journey.

Woww.. this is fantastic

I'm sure that you are already feeling very refilled after doing this work to this level. You started so well and the design you did for the main character is fabulous.

It will be nice to see the final touch that you will make to this in addition to the idea that your teammates will come up with.

Well Done

Thank you thank you!! 😭 💕

Yes, I will keep posting updates as the project keeps evolving 😁

Hahahah... But you are crying 😬😬

O didn't mean to beat you 🙄🤣

Hahah... That would be nice.
Give it a nice shot.
I wish you success Bro

Waoooo te felicito, que bendición tener esa habilidad de crear personajes y lo mas importante es la satisfacción de sentirte seguro y orgulloso de lo que lograste para ese videojuego, continua cada día mejorando y haciendo lo que te gusta.

Muchísimas gracias ☀️💕 De verdad lo disfruté mucho, pero más feliz me hace saber que ustedes aprecian mi dibujo tanto como yo. Gracias por el apoyo 💪🏻❤️

Hello @parchi-guaya Awesome character for a video game. And the concept of the game is nice. Having to search himself for pieces of a relationship he's lost. Excellent strategy. The good thing is you found others to engage and connect with for collaboration.

Nice direction you are headed for your journey on Hive. I hope you like doing this and wish you success and your new partners.

Take care.

Thanks a lot!! Your words never fail to inspire me 💖💖💖

This project is the proof that working as a team can result on incredible things, even better things than when you work on your own. Different personalities and points of views converging on a single concept 😁

When you get to the point that it's actually fun to work, it's no longer work but a joyful event that some call work. I hope this does work out for you the way you want it to @parchi-guaya!!!

Thank youuuu James 💕. That feeling you describe is exactly what I dream of. I wake up every morning with that goal in the back of my head, and that's what brought me here 😁

Well who knows, maybe I'd end up doing a totally different thing, but that doesn't change the fact that right now I'm genuinely feeling I'm taking a step in the right direction 💙