Filmustage

JANUARY 16, 2025

Here's what keeps them up at night: Getting those base shapes just right Carving up models like digital origami masters Making sure every surface points the perfect way Keeping those poly counts lean and mean Where the Magic Happens Remember that feeling when all the puzzle pieces finally clicked? That's compositing for you!

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

Concept Art. As part of our demo overhaul, we recently welcomed a few new team members into our motley crew in order to help us better establish the dark-fantasy vibe we're going for—including the newest member to our Concept Art team, Harold. Curious about Harold's process for building out each concept's composition?

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Kristala does feel like a traditional indie Soulslike game in many ways, but we've also lovingly baked in a ton of elements that will appeal to fans of other genres too. Concept Art. And with a dark fantasy action RPG like Kristala, there's pleeenty of concepts to go around, especially when it comes to weapons and armor.

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Game Design Advice

JUNE 5, 2016

A key concept in addressing this question is the idea of the skill chain , as articulated in Characteristics of Games , by Elias et al. Trivially easy games can’t support long skill-chains, and neither can all-or-nothing puzzles, no matter how large and difficult they might be. Evidence of depth – the skill chain.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

That’s the core concept from Voodoo. It’s awesome to see some good messaging baked into its core gameplay. We love the concept. Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales by Next Games. Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales wasn’t initially created for the Netflix Platform. Net Fishing! Cast your net to collect as many fish as you can.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 20, 2021

In today's issue, we're servin' up some serious updates on a few large-scale, ongoing 3D models and concept pieces. Using a few detailed concepts from our art department, our 3D Character Designer, Bianca, has been working the past few sprints on modeling out each of our three Kota soldier variants and their accompanying armor sets.

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iHobo

OCTOBER 26, 2022

And it's all down to Gregg Barnett, frankly - he had the concept, and he handed it onto me to craft into a design. And that was baked into the design from the beginning. We actually had concept art for a monstrous version of Cogjammer based on the gremlin in the movie-version of the same story - but it was too scary.

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