Astral Clock Tower Studios

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Welcome back to another exciting issue of the Kristala Dev blog. Here's how it works: each month, we share all the progress every branch of development has made as they collectively work towards completing Kristala's vertical slice—from stunning concept art and 3D models to custom animations, level design, and everything in between.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

Welcome back to another magically entrancing issue of the Kristala dev blog. 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.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

That's why we were super excited when we learned that this year's fifth-annual Play NYC convention would be held in person (with tons of awesome precautions in place to ensure all devs, speakers, and attendees were kept safe and healthy). link] Concept Art. We can't wait to go back again next year! In-tact and broken Amulets.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

DECEMBER 11, 2020

You're just in time for the latest installment of the ever-enchanting Kristala dev blog, a monthly compilation of the game development completed for indie 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala in November 2020. Plus, we'll introduce you to three of our newest talented dev team members too! Welcome back to the fantasy, friends! 3D Asset Design.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 31, 2021

Hello, and welcome to the official Kristala dev blog, where we break down the development process for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala each month. If you've been keeping up with our dev blogs already, you know that they're pretty hefty when it comes to content. Concept Art. BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! Kristala at Play NYC 2021.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

You're currently tuned in to the official Kristala Dev Blog, a monthly compilation of all the development done on our first game, Kristala: a Dark Fantasy ARPG created by women-owned indie game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!). Concept Art. First, James worked on the concept for our Warp VFX sequence.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2023

Most of the sets, characters and props were built by hand over a period of 3 years. So our solution was to 3D scan all the things we built in order to then process them in a more conventional game dev sense.” If a little bit of that positive oddity gets to reach someone out there that’s excellent.”

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 10, 2017

I’ll just put down this dubiously large book of impressive philosophy that I was totally reading and not holding like a prop. Designers that adopt accessible thinking will find it influencing every decision made, from concept to completion. A Guest Post by Michael Heron of Meeple Like Us) appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev.

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Art Concept Artist : [ Iterator Extreme ]. Given a description, then comes up with different visual concepts that could meet that description. Specializes in converting concepts into self-contained images. Prop Artist : Creates the wire frames that form the shape of not living things.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Perfect for pretending to have played Deathloop if you find yourself talking to a game dev. Not that you should ever talk to a game dev. They're small little bottles that blend-in with junk prop set dressing from a distance. I assume general game design knowledge but minimal Deathloop-specific knowledge. And they usually do!

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2024

This would include concept artist, environment artist, lighting artist, texture artist, prop artist, producer to keep track of it all, QA to test it, etc. Lets say it takes this strike team four months to complete an environment from concept to finish. And then we can break it down.

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