Thursday, April 18, 2013

PAX East

I realize this update is super late in the game and I need to vastly improve my art/blog posting abilities but hey, I'm working on it. 

I had the amazing opportunity to be a part of the RatDog Games booth at PAX East a few weeks ago and things went incredibly well. RatDog Games was started a couple years ago by a friend of mine from college and some of his buddies and a while back now they approached me to come on and help out with a new concept that was still in the early stages of development. I'm happy to say that I can show you a few samples of early artwork that I've been doing for the game. The game's working title is "Loaded" and is a 2D side scrolling beat em up RPG. I know, it's a mouthful, but it's a mouthful of awesomeness you gotta admit. As of right now we're planning on publishing to Steam for mac and PC, the Wii U, and PlayStation. We'll be doing a Kickstarter in the next 2 months so keep your eyes open!

A couple things before I give a brief rundown of the few images below. 

1. I'd like to say thank you to everyone that visited the RatDog Games booth at PAX and all the people I met there walking the floor and hanging out after. It was a great experience and it was a ton of fun being surrounded by so many passionate developers and fans. 

2. After being there and meeting so many great people there was one big thing I realized from our conversations that I had been seriously missing out on, Twitter. So, I have now successfully opened and been expertly utilizing a Twitter account. Please feel free to follow me @w_pitzer

The first image is the poster we showed off at PAX East. Again, the title will be evolving as we go.

 This is a screenshot test I did to make sure that the art style is headed in a cohesive direction and that the characters and backgrounds will be different enough that the characters will "pop". Please feel free to comment and critique.

Simple BG sketch from a while back

We actually had a slide show of sketch's and concept stuff but I gotta save some for down the road