SOMETHING WICKED (Dallas Society of Play - Fall '21)
Level Designer
2D Environment Artist
2D Environment Artist
SOMETHING WICKED takes place in a suburban neighborhood, so I spent several hours on google maps and driving around my town to get an understanding of how streets are laid out. I think this resulted in a very realistic neighborhood, as well as interesting park and forest trail sections.
2D Environment Artist
2D Environment Artist
2D Environment Artist
The sprites and tiles of SOMETHING WICKED are all made in Aseprite as 16x16 images. I created every sprite in the game that wasn't a character sprite, enemy sprite, or the street lamps. This gave me complete control over the color palette and visual language. I really enjoyed making the trees and foliage.
Music / Sound Design
2D Environment Artist
Music / Sound Design
Using Native Instruments' MASCHINE software and Audacity, I created the music for the theme. Originally I wanted to have the tracks be context-sensitive so that the Day-Overworld and Day-Shop themes would play simultaneously as the game pans between them depending on the context of the scene. The same concept was applied with the Nigh-Overworld and Night-Combat themes. However, we ran short on time and many songs and sound effects couldn't be implemented the way I initially wanted them to.
MORTEM (UTD SGDA - Fall '21)
Level Designer
Music / Sound Design
2D / Texture Artist
Using ProBuilder, I created a gladiator-style arena for our game. I chose the circular design because it fits the theme and gameplay of an endless PvE Arena Shooter. I added verticality to the level in order to encourage the player to move in more ways than just a simple circle. This also helped the flying enemies move with varying vertical heights as well.
2D / Texture Artist
Music / Sound Design
2D / Texture Artist
In order to achieve the "PlayStation 1" graphical style I wanted, I created all the materials for the level surfaces in Aseprite as 64x64 pixel art images.
What really added to this aesthetic, however, was the low poly nature of ProBuilder level geometry, along with the free PSX-Retro-Shaders provided by dsoft20 on github.
Music / Sound Design
Music / Sound Design
Music / Sound Design
Using Native Instruments' MASCHINE software and Audacity, I created the aggressive Quake III Arena and DUSK-inspired theme for the game. I also recorded the various sound effects using soda cans, boots, and grunts. Then reduced the sample rates down to ~11kHz to replicate the crunchy sounds of the original Quake.