Art section featuring logos and direction.

Logos

Research into the art for this game has been tricky due to the scope and time constraints. Initially, I strived to produce hyper-realistic assets and a world to go with them. As this was too ambitious, I homed in on what is really important within my game - in terms of visual expectations. This included:

What must the art convey?

The art must be fairly realistic. As the game is aiming to be a simulation, keeping scale - as close to real life is important, however when it comes to art, there is more leniency - it can be simplified to single colours instead of complex textures being applied to every asset.

Here is a small list of some things that have been considered when thinking about art for the game.

• A realistic environment, that is scaled to replicate the real-life environment and is recognizable from a distance.
  • This means that features/small details can be identified but do not need to necessarily have additional textures present.
    • For example, a reactor console can be grey scaled with red buttons - the buttons will be clear enough to the player to attempt to interact with them
• Shaders for effects (water, electricity and smoke)
• Semi-realistic trees
  • Look real enough to not categorise them as “simple or cartoony”
• Environment must mimic real-life architecture fairly accurately
  • Keeping 3d elements present
  • However, textures and UV maps can be simplified to single colours with lighting
• Particles - fire and lighting from fire

As a compromise, most assets for the game will be low poly. Using shaders and colouring objects will make them stand out and feel more polished/complex.

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It has been very challenging to find images that assist with forming a clear, picture of the inside of the Fukushima Daiichi plant. I suppose this is due to it being fairly recent and being withheld from the public. For that reason, I will need to take some creative liberties when designing the interior of each room. From the images I have found, I can begin creating a palette of colours.