Big Table Games are on The Opal Trail!!

Big Table Games is now up and running. There are five of us working together to make a small game to go on a leaflet from the NHS about mental health.

The team consists of: Annie Hossenbux as Team Leader and Asset Production.

Leon Plumb and Samuel Dowding as Programmers.

Myself as Art, Character Design and Rigging.

Deven Chidovori on Sound and UI.

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The idea is an endless runner based on a summer woodland theme. Going by the name of: The Opal Trail!

We're currently in the prototype phase. And during this phase, we decided to change the art style from a cell shaded look into a low-poly look.

My job as part of this team is for designing the character that the player will be controlling. As well as modelling and rigging the character. For this I will be using mainly 3DS Max to model the character. Then used Z-Brush to as detailing to the character. I will then go into quixel to add textures to the character.

When designing the character, I went through a few ideas based on the research I have done. Firstly, I was looking a creating a small girl. However, due to the fact of the potential of making younger boys feeling left out, I decided against this, and decided to make the character an animal.

At first I was going to make a bear. But after realising the fact that I'm not experienced enough in modelling to create a full humanoid character, I decided to make the character a Magpie. It also works with the theme of the game, where the character is going through the game and picking up opals.

My main goal is to get a character modeled and rigged in order to allow implementation.