Bamboo

Project Info:

Timeline: 6+ Months (on-going)

Team Size: 3 total team members, 1 designer, 1 artist and 1 programmer

Project Overview: A passion project made with 2 other developer friends. Bamboo is a 2D Top-Down Rogue-like Strategy Card game that features a lone warrior on their quest for vengeance in a dense and cursed Bamboo forest. It's Art style consists of a painterly pixel art that is 3/4ths Top Down.

My Roles

As the only artist on this team, I worked on concepting, managing and creating all aspects of art on this project. Yet I'd still like to highlight specific roles I took on

Art Director - Defined the art style (that supports the gameplay design), created a detailed art bible and maintained the art style when creating assets
Concept Artist - Created Moodboards, sketches and detailed concept pages
Character/Enemy Artist - Designed Characters, created pixel-art sprites (both portrait and gameplay sprite) and animated attacks/expressions.
Environment Artist - Created title sprites and other environment pixel art illustrations
UI Artist - Created Hud UI, Designed Card Layouts and assisted in Implementation

Programs Used

Unity (Unity Editor and Canvas)
Google Docs, Slides and Drive
Git Hub
Jira
Procreate
Figma

Planning Phase

Characters Moodboard

Environment Moodboard

UI and Cards Moodboard

Art Bible - Bamboo

This Art Bible took around 2-3 weeks to put together and is 30 slides long. It goes over the general art style, the LOD (Level of Detail), Characters, Enemies, Environment, Animation and UI Styles. Click on the Google Slides to read the full Art Bible!

Main Character

Main Character Outfit Moodboard and Ideas

Our Main Character is inspired by East Asian culture, has a simple outfit, dark hair, a simple but sharp sword and has no official gender (perhaps gender fluid). To help the player be more immersed into the narrative and game, the gender is up to the player to interpret as they please.

Excerpt from the GDD: “The lone warrior is inspired by an early ninja or unarmored samurai but is also specifically distanced from actually being identified as either one of those things.”

In the moodboard you will see inspirations from Korea's Hanbok, Japans Katanas, Pilipino Shoes, and more!

Main Character Outfit Variations

Main Character Color Concept Progress

Main Character Concept Progress

Final Main Character Design

Enemies - The Wisps

Our first enemy is the Wisp, a simple enemy that carried the will of the forest. It is dispersed when its magic is broken and has potential for it to become more powerful creature in the later game.