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From Concept to Completion: Navigating the Game Art Production Pipeline 

iXie gaming

Pre-production lays the foundation for artistic direction, ensuring that all visual elements align with the games mechanics, worldbuilding, and narrative. Shaping the Games Look & Feel Concept art acts as the visual blueprint for the games characters, environments, and props.

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Little Racer – 3D Art

The Knights of Unity

Players are able to create their own tracks using road parts, obstacles and props. All of the moving obstacles have implemented different mechanics, that make player behave in a certain way. Majority of props work on the same principles as the rest of assets. Track components . We had to focus on the matter of readability.

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Deathloop deconstruction / design thoughts

Radiator Blog

This fighting game health mechanic is too fussy and unreliable for a busy shooter. They're small little bottles that blend-in with junk prop set dressing from a distance. Limited regen (e.g. No health potion inventory , big change from Dishonored / Prey. No hoarding / shopping trips. And they usually do! Like 2-4 piles per arena.

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A day in the life of a narrative designer

Game Global

We must understand (and preferably help create and document) the game as a whole: from core mechanics to level design to cinematics, and everything in between. What are the common technical pitfalls to avoid with regard to font choices, text string composition (especially regarding item names), baked-in text, etc? Organization.

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #28

Astral Clock Tower Studios

While building up the hair shader, however, Pete struggled to find a way to actually bake out the flow map information (meaning: the directional flow of the hair cards) onto an image pulled from the 3D suites our modeling team typically uses, like Maya and Blender. Convenient, right? Say it with us, y'all: HALLE-FRICKIN'-LUJAH!

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Call of Duty: Online is dead. Long live Call of Duty: Online!

Deconstructor of Fun

The only examples of F2P shooters at scale were Korean (Crossfire) and Chinese (Assault Fire/Ni-Zhan), both focused on pay-to-win mechanics. When CoDO development started, there was barely any successful 3D free-to-play shooter in the west and free-to-play design as a whole was fairly unexplored outside of Facebook games.

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