Hello everyone. Today we would like to share about how we developed our game concept art.

During the early stage of development, we have been experimenting with the graphic style. This is the first time for our concept artist to create game arts. We found that it is actually quite difficult to create a series of art with consistent stroke and color. We have spent a lot of effort on deciding how to adjust the graphic style to offer the atmosphere that matches with the story.

The story of Codename: Apocalypse is relatively realistic with some sci-fi elements as the story is set in the future. There is no magic, wizards nor witches. Therefore, we decided to use realistic painting style with first person perspective to offer an immersive experience.

The following are some of the concept art we created:

At the beginning, we created a key visual to serve as a reference to position the overall art style. We feel that the character is too cute so we tried to create a more realistic version.

Then a new draft on the character and game background is created. We quite like the style of this version. Our concept artist suggested refining the image more to make it looks more complete instead of just a draft.

This is the first version of the refined characters. We like the new style too but some of the painting touch is not consistent which makes them not looking like characters from the same game. Further adjustment was needed to improve the graphic style consistency. We decided to adjust the stroke and the color as well as the proportion of the facial components and body parts.

This is a newer version of character and background concept artworks. We are still adjusting some of the colors such as the saturation and also some of the details like the hair. But the overall tone of the game art style is now finalized!

We are working on creating more game art assets and we will show more in our social media and in the coming devlogs. Please follow us if you would like to learn more about our game. 

One Final Word - Development Progress Update

We are now working on development of the free demo, and planning for a Kickstarter campaign to be launched in August 2022 for the development cost for the full game. If you are interested in our game, please support us by following on itch.io, wishlisting our game on steam or/and follow us on social media!

Links:

• Official Website: https://rankbdev.github.io/codea/ 
• Steam Page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2051290/Codename_Apocalypse/
• Discord: https://discord.gg/yqZXhKf9AH  
• Youtube: https://youtu.be/Kf3zY_IIUpE 
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/RankB_Dev 
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/codename_apocalypse/ 
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Codename-Apocalypse/100075844770182/  

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