Concepts - Jumpsuit Entertainment

Making Of A Fungi-Noveau Palace

In my last post I showed you some sketches from a new set of levels. Here is a nice GIF composed of 18 images that show the process for Level 13 from first sketch to the final background painting. Here is a still of Level 13. And as a bonus,...

This man (me) stumbled across a weird trick to make drawing backgrounds easier

In this tutorial I will tell you the secret of how I stumble through the current design process (incomplete) of Perlinoid’s backgrounds — weird ellipse following. Step 1, Confession: I feel like up until a few weeks ago I a have had a lot of trouble drawing the backgrounds for...

Character styling and other tests

Update time. I primarily focused on character designs over the last week. Currently I am investing a lot of time in getting an aesthetic working that is entirely and precisely aliased. Not so easy, especially with textures that tend to blur. One direction we are considering is using only vertex...

Glitch caterpillars, big faces, and a weirdly fashioned one

Another bit of time has gone by ever so fast. Since our game will be in 3D I decided last week to ignore all 2D concepts for a while and just started to experiment and play around in Unity and Blender. It was a fun and satisfying experience and the...

Cassandra Khaw writes for us!

Best news first: We are incredibly proud, honoured and excited to announce that Cassandra Khaw (twitter) will be writing the story to our game! Of course we can not spoil just yet what it will be: Big secret! ^_^ Until then some more insights into the visual design process: At...

A new year – a new direction

It’s been a little while since I posted an update. Mostly because I needed time to think about our approach to the game. By late December 2014 I realised that after more than a year of working on the game I know pretty much what I wanted things to look...

Post from another island

It seems I have neglected this blog for far too long. This is not good. I shall rectify the situation immediately. We are making some good progress with the game. Or so it seems. Two steps forward and one step back makes for,… yes, one step at a time. Dancing...

Bonsai Tree Houses

I came up with these funky bonsai tree houses in the time since the last post. I like the idea of each bonsai tree house being a little island that you can visit. Each being a level that you have to solve in order to progress to the next one....

Character Design Language

Silhouettes are important, especially for character designers. Not in a paper-cutting victorian past-time sense. Even though back then some people surely have had quite a well developed character. But I digress… As I mentioned in my last post on saturday, we are working on a color-based puzzle game. One of...

Screenshot Sunday – is it a thing?

Apparently. At least somewhat because people seem to be using it when they have missed #screenshotsaturday. Yesterday it seems there was a little hiccup with the link that I posted on twitter. So, today #screenshotsunday is the excuse for testing it again. This one is one of my favourite pieces...

Starting Sharing Stuff Screenshot Saturday Style

#screenshotsaturday – is there a better way to start sharing something that you have been working on for quite some time? No, I think not. Especially with a title that is a sextuple alliteration. Below is a (somewhat old) concept art screenshot of the game we are currently working on....