Environment Design

Project Description

A background for your game, this is the space in which the characters play. All interior or exterior assets should propel the story forward. This is for a 2D Casual game, sometimes these are bitmap or vector. For this project we will be working in Photoshop.

Deliverables:

3 Environment Benchmarks

Gather 3 benchmark images showing the style you are aiming for.

9 Grayscale Thumbnails

Number them.
Explore different compositions, locations, angles,
All of these must be for your game and be a game play background.
Leave space for your GUI, and character

2 detailed grayscale sketches

3 color keys (optional SP 23)

Think about different times of day in your game
Think about different moods in your game
This will include different lighting

1 Multiplane color final

Setup your file to have 3 layers: Foreground, Midground and Background
These can be set in folders in PSD

Submit Files:

jpg to your slides

and

Environment Google Drive

Please turn in:

Layered PSD
FirstNameLastNameGameEnvironmentTitle.psd
Flat JPEG at 2000 x 2000 pixels max

File Sizes:

The dimensions for this project will be determined by what you intend it to be primarily used on when complete; a tablet (iPad) or phone (iPhone).

For iPad dimensions, it should be 2732 x 2048 pixels (12.9 ipad pro): 1536 x 2048: iPad Pro 9.7 etc most iPads on market.
For iPhone dimensions, it should be 2436 x 1125 pixels
Moving Target (These sizes are all over the board, basically, pick a size and start your concept, leaving lots of bleed on the edges to be able to move into another format.) See the apple developer display sizes.
You may need to work at the file at a larger size:
Double the size- This helps you to zoom in as you work.