Rampant Games

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In the fiction, November 6, 2022 was the launch day for the game “ Sword Art Online ,” chronicled in the books, manga, and anime series of that name. Thanks to a crazy head engineer with a god complex, ten thousand players are now playing an ultra-realistic fantasy game in a virtual world with real-world stakes.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 10, 2023

But I was missing a really good city builder in a fantasy setting. João does all the art and shaders. He also helps come up with ideas and cool concepts and we cooperate very closely. For example, all the audio is made by Sam Houselander , all the music by Olli Oja and all the animations are done by Nacho de Andres.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 5, 2023

But I was missing a really good city builder in a fantasy setting. João does all the art and shaders. He also helps come up with ideas and cool concepts and we cooperate very closely. For example, all the audio is made by Sam Houselander , all the music by Olli Oja and all the animations are done by Nacho de Andres.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The dev blog is where we share all the behind-the-scenes dev action for Kristala, a 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG developed by the incredibly talented team at women-owned indie game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios. Concept Art. Take a look at some of the recent armor concepts our talented artist James created this month.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This is the place where we break down all aspects of development for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala—an indie game in developed by the wildly talented dev team behind women-owned indie games studio, Astral Clocktower Studios. Concept Art. If you're a big lover of fantasy games (and we're betting you are!)

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 13, 2023

The Last Voyage concept came from a wish to bring my stylized art into a realistic world. I had been playing the Supergiant Games game Hades and started wondering what the River Styx could look like in a fantasy/fairy tale world. Aurore's journey down the River Styx. Atmosphere and lighting were integral to Aurore's cinematic.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JUNE 29, 2021

Hello, dear friends and fantasy aficionados. This is the place where we bring you a monthly peek into the development process for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game developed using Unreal Engine 4 by women-lead Astral Clocktower Studios. Concept Art. If you're just joining us, welcome!

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

You just left reality and fell into a portal to the fantasy world of Ailur, the fictional planet that serves as the setting for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala—an indie game developed by women-owned independent game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!). link] Concept Art. Welcome, beautiful creatures!

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 20, 2021

Here you'll get an inside look at the detailed development work done for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, the inaugural title from the team behind Astral Clocktower Studios—a female-lead indie studio based in Central PA, USA. In today's issue, we're servin' up some serious updates on a few large-scale, ongoing 3D models and concept pieces.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JANUARY 14, 2021

Hello, loyal Kristalans and faithful fantasy fanatics! Today we're serving up some seriously exciting updates, including a look at our new, custom game cursor; updates on our new player character's rigging and animation; and a sneak peek at our newest WIP level area. Let's get immersed in the dark fantasy world of Kristala.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Welcome back to the ever-enchanting Kristala dev blog, where you can get front-row seats to the development process for indie 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, the first title from female-owned-and-operated indie game studio Astral Clocktower Studios. Are you ready to enter the fantasy? link] Concept Art. Here we go.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Greetings, friends and fantasy aficionados! We're also giving you a special first look at some new environmental concepts and progress made to our newest WIP level area. The last task Nick completed this sprint was to model a Nisargan Leather Leaf armor set based on the concept created by our incredibly talented artist, l_aciel.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 31, 2021

Hello, and welcome to the official Kristala dev blog, where we break down the development process for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala each month. Concept Art. This means that our artists have been diligently working on cranking out fresh concepts for existing weapons, armor sets, consumables, and other important goodies.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Welcome back to the fantasy, friends! You're just in time for the latest installment of the ever-enchanting Kristala dev blog, a monthly compilation of the game development completed for indie 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala in November 2020. Now, let's get ready to amp up the magic and dive headfirst into the dark fantasy of Kristala.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JULY 10, 2022

Game Art: Fashion Innovations The art of Dislyte is a manifesto from “the future”. Vaporwave was an online artistic movement started in 2010 that used psychedelic elements in art and electronic music. Anime styled character. The Twitter account has also retweeted a lot of fan art to increase engagement and recognition.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

OCTOBER 8, 2020

This is the only place where you'll get a monthly, in-depth look at the development process for our inaugural title, Kristala - an enchantingly delightful 3D dark fantasy action RPG developed lovingly with Unreal Engine 4. link] Concept Art. If you're just joining us, welcome home!

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Hello, dearest of friends and finest of high-fantasy enthusiasts! SYKOMANA CRYSTAL: The Sykomanans are masters in matters of the mind - gifted in the mental arts of both telepathy and telekinesis. Concept Art. Here's a peek at some of the base concepts she recently completed for the various-sized Kota soldiers.

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Deconstructor of Fun

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Charles Lee (Art Lead) , veteran art director and concept artist with past experience at Blizzard , Sony Pictures Animation , and who until very recently worked in the Visual Development of Netflix hit Arcane (damn!). This is a well-balanced team in terms of disciplines, covering software, design, and art.

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Filmustage

MAY 4, 2022

Before we continue, we want to remind you that here we promote the love of art and try to inspire you to take your camera and make a short film. George Lucas had long envisioned a heroic space fantasy in the style of sci-fi comic books, film series and pulp-novels from the 40s and 50s. We are open to discussion and criticism.

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Brand Game Development

JULY 3, 2017

In it, I’ll be guiding you through every step of the process of creating board games: core concepts, ideas, design, development, manufacturing, crowdfunding through sites like Kickstarter, selling, and marketing. Wargames to understand history, fantasy to let my imagination blow, euros to exercise my brain. Escape definitely.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 27, 2021

Although this is typically the only place where you can get a monthly peek into all the development that goes into Kristala—a 3D dark fantasy ARPG from female-lead Astral Clocktower Studios—things will soon be changing. Ready to see how things are going now in the fantasy world of Ailur? Concept Art. Let's dive in.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

This is the place where we break down the development for 3D Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game currently in development by the talented team at women-owned indie games studios, Astral Clocktower Studios. Concept Art. These pieces will vary in both shape and strength.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

Hello, faithful feline-lovin' friends and fantasy aficionados! This is the only place where you'll receive a monthly, in-depth look into the entire development process for 3D dark fantasy ARPG Kristala, an indie game built in Unreal Engine 4 by the incredibly talented team at Astral Clocktower Studios. Concept Art.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 23, 2022

You're currently tuned in to the official Kristala Dev Blog, a monthly compilation of all the development done on our first game, Kristala: a Dark Fantasy ARPG created by women-owned indie game studio, Astral Clocktower Studios (hey, that's us!). The first official gameplay trailer for Dark Fantasy ARPG Kristala. Concept Art.

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

Fantasy Strike is available now on Nintendo Switch , PlayStation 4 , and Steam (Windows / Mac / Linux). In Fantasy Strike, you just click on anyone in your in-game friends list to challenge them. Netcode Fantasy Strike’s netcode is a different kind of innovation. Innovation can come in many different flavors. No, you would not.

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Game Designing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Atmosphere, when done right, can turn the bundle of programming, art, and sound that we call a video game into something so much more than the sum of its parts. Rather, the ‘atmosphere’ of any game is a combination of many things: art, sound, post-processing effects, story, dialogue, and more. This is the power of the game atmosphere.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 5, 2020

The event kicks off August 10th and runs through the 16th (that's an entire week of bashin' on baddies and getting immersed in the fantasy world of Ailur). MYRTUNA CRYSTAL: As a mysterious clan of necromancers, the Myrtunans are gifted in the art of foresight and knowing. o [link] Concept Art. Check it out! Programming.

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iHobo

OCTOBER 26, 2022

And it's all down to Gregg Barnett, frankly - he had the concept, and he handed it onto me to craft into a design. We actually had concept art for a monstrous version of Cogjammer based on the gremlin in the movie-version of the same story - but it was too scary. The big influence I added was - of all things!

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 8, 2019

It’s more important than ever to protect the hard earned spoils of successful live operations – both by spending wisely and by protecting product leadership from the randomization that comes with new product concepting. A game concept can come from anywhere. Standardizing the materials provided for the process is a good start.

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 26, 2023

3D lighting involves simulating the behavior of light in a real-world or fantasy situation, including shadows, reflections, highlights, and color, using specialized lighting software and rendering tools. Scene from the 3D animation Finding Nemo before and after its been lit and rendered by a 3D lighting artist (Image: Pixar).

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The state of the art has moved on so far that it’s hard to convey how important the idea of “let’s make these behaviors generic” was. So simulationism was born as a way to make fantasy worlds richer, more immersive… in a sense, to “make the ride better.” Not that I coined them, of course; the concepts were very much in the air.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 13, 2021

I think the “smaller Apple Arcade” concept is a bit of a red herring. They Know What you Like Again, Netflix doesn’t need Facebook machine learning algorithms to figure out who in their audience is a high net-worth male in the United States who likes superheroes and fantasy. Though same was said of Amazon…. They already know.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Instead there's cutscenes without animation, scripted conversations without choreography, and readables you rarely read because the game never pauses. They could maybe pull off a No Man's Sky / Final Fantasy 14 style maneuver and reboot it as Redfall: Revamped next year, but that's probably not the complete second chance that the team wants.

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Sirlin

DECEMBER 30, 2014

I'd like to talk about the design behind it, but we really have to start with the art. Starting by telling you about the art may seem superficial, and maybe it is, but the art in this game is so notable—such a breakthrough—that I think it deserves special attention. Guilty Gear Xrd is great.

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Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

In her excellent book Narrative As Virtual Reality , Marie-Laure Ryan outlines some common understandings of virtual: virtual as "digital": inspired by computer concepts like virtual memory. Since I'm interested in making openly political art, I can't just grin at every question with "well, what do you think?"

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

The stunning Cruising Pavilion installation at the 2018 Venice Biennale My previous cruising game The Tearoom focused on the emotional and psychological aspects of cruising, and eventually went on tour with the fantastic group art exhibition Cruising Pavilion. L of semen for each one. So for example, instead of redeeming two men for a +3.0

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