Blocktober 2024
Below are pictures and videos of blockouts that I made during the blocktober challenge for Design Den. This was a great experience and was fun to participate with an amazing community!
All of these blockouts were created in a timeframe of 4 hours from concept to completion.
Prompt 1: Giant Skeleton Graveyard
For the prompt "Giant Skelton Graveyard", I wanted to create a level that would tell a story with the environment and striking imagery. My inspiration for this was God of War 2018, where Kratos and Arterus find the bodies of dead giants and Brothers: a tales of two sons where players can maneuver through a mountain side of dead giants. I wanted players to run through this space and wonder "my god, what happened here?".
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Prompt 2: Ice Castle
For the prompt "Ice Castle", I wanted to create a level that would work like a story, where it would build up to a final climax. The idea for this block out came from watching a friend play Elden Ring, which is masterful at environmental story telling.
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Prompt 3: Cyberpunk Jungle
For the prompt "Cyberpunk Jungle", I wanted to challenge myself by creating blockout based more on brutalist architecture. In my mind, cyberpunk jungle was a juxtaposition. Having big blocky shapes with extreme angles mixed with the randomness and roundness of natural foliage. I did research by looking up brutalism and playing through Cyberpunk 2077 to get a better understand of the shape language. As the level progresses, it starts off with man-made spaces with little nature, but then opens up to nature taking back the world, similar to the world of Horizon Zero Dawn.
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