Bíto Benavides - Lunar Valley

Project Info:

Lunar Valley is a 3D narrative based puzzle fantasy game. You, the player, play as Ito, a cute innocent alien from a distant land, who wakes up with amnesia in a tiny village. Talk to villagers, collect items and complete quests as you learn about the village and help residents with tonight's festival! Before night falls... prepare for the celebration, your sacrifice. Wake up again at the start of that same day, figure the way out or be sacrificed over and over again, every night.

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Timeline: 4 months

Team Size: 10 total team members; 3 designers, 5 artists and 2 programmers

Project Overview: Create and complete a video game with a small team in 4 months. Start game project from scratch from pitching, concepting, alpha, beta and to final release.

My Roles

Art Director - Created Art Bible for artists to reference, worked with artists to assure deadlines, styles and quality was met Also helped the art team and the rest of the team to be on the same page together.
Character Artist - Concepting/Designing, Modeling (High and Low Poly), UV unwrapping, Texturing
Concept Artist - Concepts and Designs of Characters, Props and Environment
Texture Artist - Textured Main Character
UI Artist - Worked closely with Lead Designer to Design, Create Assets and Implement all UI
Itch Page Designer - Created, Designed and Implemented Assets for Game Page
Scrum Master - Lead Daily Scrums and Sprint Review/Planning
Presentation Director - Created/Organized Presentations and Presented Important Milestones to Industry Professionals
Video Editor - Edited Presentation Videos and Game Trailers

Programs Used

Unity (Unity Editor and Canvas)
Google Docs, Slides and Drive
P4V (Preforce)
Photoshop
Procreate
Maya
Zbrush
Substance
Visual Studio
Adobe Premier Pro
Itch.io

Planning Phase

Lunar Valley Final Presentation

This Game was made for AIE's 2021 Major Production Project, the final project before graduation! We were put in teams of around 10 people and had an advisor look after us as we created a game in 4 months time. My Team had 3 Designers, 5 Artists and 2 programmers. Together, after learning what type of game we would all like to work on, we created Lunar Valley as a concept and would continue to expand and polish it until it's due date. Check out the Google Slides for more info!

Art Bible

After creating the main idea for our game, I went to work as the Art Director. I firstly needed to analyze all of the artist's strengths and brain storm with them what art style we wanted to have. Once we generally agreed on a direction, we all made moodboards to visually express what we were looking for. With the moodboards and meetings with the Lead Designer, I created the Art Bible. This Art Bible was very thorough and helped the artists create assets but also motivated them! I maintained the Art Bible as a living document.