Double Dude Studio

Is what I did lately. In other words, I’m looking for a nice color palette for the game, so that it both reads well and conveys the atmosphere. The idea is to take something Wipeout-ish futuristic and make it a little bit rusty and used, so that the emphasis is more on the gritty dogfighting and not the smooth flying. Here are three color versions of a placeholder map I’m quite satisfied with. I’ve also changed the light walls seen in the trailer to dark ones, as they took the focus away from the fights inside them.

It’s a constant struggle between making everything just brown and gray, these colors being the safest, and spraying strong color everywhere, like later Unreal Tournaments did. I think Brink has a pretty nice palette, but I don’t like how its menus’ graphic style clash with the content of the game – I’ll try and avoid that in Hullfire.

The bad news is that our previous project was put on indefinite hold.
The good news is that we are currently working on something orders of magnitude more awesome.
We weren’t really as excited about Dorfbox as we should be about our own game, and it had very strong, negative influence on our productivity.

We are not quite ready to announce our new project, because we want the announcement to blow people away (we’ll make a proper trailer and shit) but here’s a little peek at some of the concept art:

Hey there. I’m still alive and guess what: I’m gonna share my drawings with you more. Here’s a page I crunched out today, while recovering from a flu.

It’s a thing I discovered lately, that in order to come up with some cool designs you need to really fill up the entire page and find the shapes inbetween what’s already there. You get forced to fit into spaces you wouldn’t think up when drawing on a blank piece of paper.

It also has this chaotic, packed quality of the drawings I made when I was like 10 years old. Pages just chock full of starships and stuff.

Anyway this is what I’ve been doing lately, just to hone my drawing skills and be able to make concepts no matter how much time and what tools I have (read: how far from a computer I am). These were drawn with a Pilot ballpoint pen and shaded in photoshop, although I’m considering buying a set of gray markers.

TL;DR: SKETCHES UP IN THIS MUTHAFUCKA