Claws Out
Steampunk noir third-person shooter — Best Art Award at Tecnogames 2022.
- Role
- Environment Artist
- Team
- 8 people
- Duration
- 3 months
- Year
- 2022
Help Dolores stop the Doggers
Claws Out is a third-person shooter where you pick between multiple bullet types, each with a different effect. You face several enemies at once and chain those effects with your revolver to survive.
The Doggers — a mafia trafficking milk — are ruining the Claws Out family business. Time to do something about it.
The award earned us the chance to present the game at IndieDevDay 2022.
See the IndieDevDay postThree months, eight people
I worked as an environment artist in a team of eight. We had three months to ship a video game, so we started by deciding what we could realistically pull off.
A steampunk game focused on combat felt right, so we mixed the ingredients:
From prototype to gold
- 1Prototype
- 2Alpha
- 3Beta
- 4Gold
Everyone produced concepts and documentation to pin down the game and how to finish it on time. I painted an environment concept, then we built a blockout of the first stage using the level design document (LDD) as reference.
The map was redesigned, so the artists rebuilt the blockout — this time more detailed and with some assets. The character went in with a placeholder shooting pose.
Texturing the assets we already had and building more to fill a map that was redesigned once again to make it bigger. Animations were added to smooth out the movement.
Only a couple of weeks from Beta to Gold: textures, set dressing so the map never feels empty, decals, new lighting, updated UI and menus, and every animation needed to make the movement feel great.
The finished game
- Environment concept art and stage blockouts
- Modular environment assets and set dressing
- Dolores' revolver, the main character's weapon
- Tunnel materials in Quixel Mixer
Tough weeks, but we made it on time.
