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“The most important thing to remember when doing graphics for a game, regardless of art style, is that the elements remain consistent.” This is a great piece of advice I’ve seen given to beginners, and most likely given it myself. Keeping a game’s art style consistent will help a project feel cohesive to players, allow […]

The very shapes an artist uses in an image dictate, to a great degree, the mood, feel and ideas that the scene will communicate. We’ve looked at this already in terms of specific details, but it’s no less important to remember that a scene’s actual composition is based around shapes, too. As can be expected, […]

I’ve written at some length about the way artists can use light and colour to tell their stories, and to construct a sense of atmosphere and a particular mood, whether from a particular object or from an entire scene. It’s one of the most effective visual elements to keep in mind when designing scenery but […]

An important element of the graphic adventure game is to make sure that scenery is practical and playable. It has to serve a purpose: it’s the backdrop on which the action happens, it’s the board on which the pieces are placed by the designer, and this means that things have to be clear, visible and […]

It’s a standard feature of adventure stories to show a wide range of settings over the course of a tale. Dark forests, scorching deserts, snowy mountains, gloomy castles – it’s perfectly common to jump from one to the next as the hero’s journey advances. Sometimes, though, the story requires that the hero travels not just […]

The primary purpose of background art in adventure games is to be part of the gameplay. It’s where the locked doors, the mazes, the inventory items appear; it’s where the characters have to walk around, jump across, and swim through. Beyond the realm of playability, however, are the distant areas – those non-playable parts of […]

Character design – especially in low resolutions – is something that really interests me, particularly because I’m not very good at it. Before joining Wadjet Eye Games, most of my character design relied on highly stylized anatomy, bright colours, comical outfits and interesting postures. When I suddenly found myself faced with the prospect of trying […]

Creating adventure game scenery isn’t just about drawing what we can interact with. True, this is the primary reason for it, to give us something to play with, but it’s also important that we expand beyond this and add details and scenery that don’t need to be clicked on, but that do fill up the […]

In our article series debut last time, we looked at how light can speak volumes about atmosphere, mood, and how they can be used to direct a player’s feeling. This time, we’ll see how players can be led, quite literally, to particular places simply by using lighting. Playing id Software’s latest instalment in the Doom […]

Hello! My name is Ben Chandler and I’ve been interested in the creation of art for adventure games for a number of years now. I started tinkering with designing my own games when I was 18 years old, making various small things for years until eventually being hired by Wadjet Eye Games as an artist. […]