Don't worry, we know this isn't the final art and have no intention of the finished game looking anything like this. One of the things I've learned as a game designer is that if I ask graphic designers and artists to work on something and then change my mind about the rules such that they need to include / remove an element they start looking at me like they want to stab me in the neck. So I do a lot of gameplay work before I worry too much about what it looks like.
What you're looking at is my "what's the minimum I can do to make it possible to test the mechanics of play" version of the game. I have no graphic training or ability, am colourblind and make the cards using Open Office rather than any real graphical tool. I know that the art and design are terrible - they're just not the focus of the design work at the moment.
I think we can do quite a lot better than that with this game as well, because the Escape the Nightmare project involved a collaboration of dozens of artists providing images drawn to different ratios. In this case we'll be working with a much tighter group drawing images of the sizes that are specifically required.
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Hi Ylvise,
Don't worry, we know this isn't the final art and have no intention of the finished game looking anything like this. One of the things I've learned as a game designer is that if I ask graphic designers and artists to work on something and then change my mind about the rules such that they need to include / remove an element they start looking at me like they want to stab me in the neck. So I do a lot of gameplay work before I worry too much about what it looks like.
What you're looking at is my "what's the minimum I can do to make it possible to test the mechanics of play" version of the game. I have no graphic training or ability, am colourblind and make the cards using Open Office rather than any real graphical tool. I know that the art and design are terrible - they're just not the focus of the design work at the moment.
For a point of reference here's what a horror game that I worked on looked like at this stage of that project:
http://www.3dtotalgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/mutilation.png
And here's what it ended up looking like:
http://www.3dtotalgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Cards.jpg
I think we can do quite a lot better than that with this game as well, because the Escape the Nightmare project involved a collaboration of dozens of artists providing images drawn to different ratios. In this case we'll be working with a much tighter group drawing images of the sizes that are specifically required.