Month: March 2019

Character Redesign

03/19/2019

After much musing and experimentation, we’ve decided to double down on making our character designs abstract.

The original character art was designed to give the illusion of looking at the top of a vaguely human head, with floating hands and feet.

As we’ve play tested the game and continued progressing with development, we found that these character designs had many flaws. They were limited, difficult to read, and overall just looked awkward.

Our new design is much simpler and leaves more to the imagination, which is perfect for this perspective.

Most importantly, this new design is one crucial piece of allowing us to remove the HUD and display important information directly on the character.

We think this new art style will be a lot more appealing and allow us to make far more interesting characters.

Posted by: Eluem on 03/19/2019

Life Finds a Way (To Get in the Way)

03/03/2019

But… we’re back and we’ve got some updates coming along.

2017 & 2018

Life happened. Some great things, and some not so great. However, now that my life is starting to normalize a bit, I’m able to focus on my projects more.

Updated Art

The next major update I’d like to share about Helheim is that we’ve overhauled our character and weapon art designs quite significantly.
This also relates to our plans to massively overhaul the UI…. or lack there of, but we’ll get into that in another post.

Regarding the art, we’ve made a major design shift away from the current pseudo top down view towards some more abstract characters.
Also, our weapon designs have been streamlined and stylized.

I can’t wait to show you what we have, and why we decided to change these designs.

PAX 2019

Oh and one more thing! We’re going to be at PAX East 2019 (since we ALWAYS go!).
We won’t have a booth, but we’re super excited to meet other gamers and game developers as we do every year.

If you bump into us somehow, we’d love to discuss Helheim, or development process, or anything else regarding games!

Hope to see you there!

Posted by: Eluem on 03/03/2019