Hi everyone,

My name is Indy Duffy and i am the art lead for Siopi i will be making most of the posts about the art direction and progress.

The original concept for the game is a lot different to what the game is now, but the art direction for the game has not changed much. Siopi is inspired by the Art Noveau movement and is stylised around the 1890's-1800's.

Original character concept

This was the original character concept for the game. It has been developed more to fit in with the time period that we chose but her personality we wanted to keep the same.

Below I will take you throught the concepting process I did for the games main character.

First I did some basic silhouette designs and tied to take influence and show some clothing and hair designs from the time period. When i finished these i took them to my team members and asked them and others about which ones we like the most and i developed those further.

This is where I explored the designs further, we landed on springy and long hair for the character to fit in with her bouncy personality and her dress has follows the dress designs of the time period that she's inspired by.

This is the final design that we chose for the character and i think she looks great now we just need to finalise her model for the game.

Some more concepts that I have done for the game are the slimes which will be the main enemy for the game.

We wanted to have them be distinct from eachother based on their abilities do that the player knows what slime does what and what area they are from i still need to develope these further but im happy with where they are at the moment. 

The types at the moment are:

Basic slime: Only body slams the character.

Flying slime: drops something on the character that will damage them.

Water Slime: Shoots water at the character.

Shooting Slime: shoots at the character.

The basic, shooting and flying slime will have a Muck version that is in the second level of the game.

The slimes need to be developed some more but I think we are on a good track.