Category: Research

Overview Katamari Damacy REROLL is a whimsy, wonderful roll-em-up adventure. Your Father, The King-Of-All-Cosmos accidentally destroys the moon while drunk, making all the stars in the sky disappear. You, the Prince, are tasked to help him collect objects using a “Katamari”, a magical ball that objects can stick so that he can convert them into…

As suggested by Parker to play as it was one of their inspirations for Kinetic Panic! I was lead to a link called OPENMBU, where a port of Marble Blast Ultra with community fixes and mods was available. I used the online version (https://marbleblastultra.randomityguy.me/) to play the game. Already when I started playing, I could…

LittleBigPlanet Created in: 2009 Inspo: Collage/Superflat influences LittleBigPlanet is a puzzle platformer where the player controls a character called “Sackboy” and must traverse landscapes to help each creator of each biome fix their problems. How this relates to Kinetic Panic LBP is a physics-based game where objects in the scene are interactable, meaning they can…

Before I start creating anything, I must research the design influences that went into this game idea. In his GDD, Parker listed a two major design influences: Superflat and Vectorheart, so I will talk about them more and their relation to my role and the game overall. Superflat Created in: 2000 Creator: Takashi Murakami Superflat…

Since I am both a 2D and 3D Character Artist, I thought it would be good to research the different aspects of my role. This is according to the websites, Glassdoor and CGspectrum, which have detailed descriptions of a character artist’s role. I’ve highlighted some of the things I will actively be doing during this…

For this project, I prepared in advance and looked at my peer’s portfolios in advance. This way I was prepared to make the decision well in advance and not spend the week being indecisive.  After looking at and evaluating the blogs I chose 3 contenders that I would potentially like to work on: The first…