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We make games! Wishlist Echobreaker - A lightning-fast precision speedrunner⚡ Previous Games: Hellboy: Web of Wyrd | West of Dead | Deadbeat Heroes

A low poly retro skater in neon wave colours sours across the roof of a skyscraper on a pink hover board.
Image shows a hoverboard rider on the roof tops of a neon wave cyberpunk skyscraper with a half pipe and ramps to ride. The image is made up of flat shaded colours, simple geometry and pixel UI
Image is created in photoshop featuring hand drawn sketches. There are four sketches in total all showing different stages of a Killboost gameplay mechanic we explored. The first is a white lined doodle of an enemy exploding - this is the cause. Sketch two is of the Echo area visual effect the destroyed enemy creates - its is a of a black circle with white outlines and a muiltcoloured shimmer. The third sketch shows the player character passog over or through a circular echo effect. The last sketch shows the result of the player character passing through the area of echo and how it creates a zoom effect that eminates from the player as they surge forward.
Image is of a grey scale character jumping upwards and forwards. They emit frames of bridging poses in different colours from crouch to jump so the player can see all frames at the same time. Image is created in photoshop featuring hand drawn sketches.
Image is of the in-engine art diorama environment for Echobreaker with previous sword echo vfx concepts dropped in to see how well they read in game.
Images features two images of a greyscale approximation of a character with sword. The first image shows the character swooshing the sword horizontally with a glitchy trail motif emitting from the swords blade. The second image shows the character running forward dragging the big sword behind and echo sparks emitting from the scrapped floor.
Image is of 3 greyscale drawings of a sword with coloured vfx motifs applied to allow for comparison during discussion.
Image shows 6 different VFX studies for what could be our Echo motif. Each image was done in photoshop and mimics a material ball so that direct comparisons for discussion are easier.
Images shows about 8 pen on paper scribbles working out how much gun the turret should be made out of, how much armour, how much heft it should convey.
Image contains hand drawn line art and coloured cels created in Photoshop. There are three drawings each of the Hefty Robot and all are coloured Grey, white and Orange. 1 drawing could be considered higer res and the other two are smaller in detail. The reason for each drawing is to iterate on different patterning to consider which looks best.
Image is of a Hefty Robot concept for Echobreaker - It features a lined drawing with greyscale cel-shading. The Robot is similar in build to an Ogre featuring longer arms and squat legs.
Image is of two Robot designs. Each robot design has a bigger, more detailed line sketch and a small, lower detailed line sketch coloured in light grey. The 1st robot design features a number of spheres as a repeating motif, resulting in a robot with spherical palms, feet and head. The 2ndt robot design features a number of angualr panels as a repeating motif, resulting in a robot with armoured like torso, limbs and head.
Image is of two Robot designs. They are both lined sketches coloured in using Photoshop. The 1st robot design is based on motifs and design lines from 1970s vehicle design. The 2nd robot design is based on motifs and design lines from 1970s product design.
Image is of a raised view 3D isometric facility space made in MagicaVoxel and Photoshop. Imposed on top are a series of 17 small sketches of various sihlouettes of potential robot designs all laid out for easy comparion for form and scale.