Alex & Arty - Restoring planet Earth · published
Hi, Gamers! RolldBox Games development team Today with Ferran, one of our Co-Founders, as well as the Game Designer and Creative Director of the studio at RolldBox Games 👋
We are continuing with our "Making Of" video series, where we show you everything behind the creation of Alex & Arty! 🔆
In this ninth episode, we want to talk about how we visualized and created the pollution on Gladness. Staying true to reality, giving shape to the "Crud"—imagining what it looked like, its shifting forms, its texture, its intensity, and how to make it disappear—was anything but an easy process.
We faced the challenge of visualizing it across the different areas of Gladness: The Wildlands, the Thunder Mountains, and the Black Sea. Everything needed to look permeated by pollution at varying densities. We went through several versions, tweaks, animations, and effects, which you can see in the video! Once again, you playtesters helped us immensely with your feedback during our private tests, alongside the impressions and texture perceptions from the entire team involved in developing Alex & Arty.
All of the planet's contamination stems from the mishandling of the chemical, physical, and biological properties of one of Gladness's resources. Naturally, it will be up to you to discover what happened and how to stop it!
We also want to share that we’ve given the pollution several names. Viewing it as something sticky that permeates and covers everything, we’ve referred to it as slime, dirt, muck, sludge, pollution, and contamination—anything that evoked that exact feeling.
Be careful! Just as it infects the creatures of Gladness and their environments, it will cover you too, Alex! You will need to learn how to use the Ionizer and figure out the best way to deal with this thick mass.
We look forward to seeing your actions on Gladness!
In the meantime, we are sharing the video of our tests and tweaks. We’d be thrilled if you gave it a watch and left us your thoughts in the comments!
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The launch is getting close: September 16th!
We will be sharing more "Making Of" chapters soon!
Don’t forget to join our Discord server. Let us know what you’d like us to talk about next from there!See you in Gladness!