Create Modular Game Art for Faster Results with Inkscape!
Release date:2018, October
Duration:04 h 04 m
Author: István Szép
Skill level:Beginner
Language:English
Exercise files:Yes
What you’ll learn
You will be able to create your own 2D game tiles
You will understand and able to create real and effective modular design for video games
You will work much faster with Inkscape
Requirements
You will need to have a basic Inkscape knowledge
Description
How to create your own game assets the most effective way?
How to design unique looking game art for the fragment of time and cost?
Is that even possible?
Yes it is!
By applying the principles of modular design and making your game asset creation faster, cheaper and much more efficient!
What is that?
Modular design is a method, where you build up your game assets from pre-designed moduls.
During this course you will learn:
the principles of modular designs in game art
to create a fleet of spaceships from simple geometrical forms
to create cartoon character heads good for any mobile game
to design a modular goblin army with fantasy weapons
to make a platform game tileset
to design a 2D tileset for a Zelda -like topdown game
and of course a lot of Inkscape tricks to make your work more efficient!
My name is István Szép, I am a graphic designer and design teacher for more than a decade. Join me in this course and learn to create fast, cheap and effective modular game assets in Inkscape! Inkscape is a free , easy to use vector design program, that will make you be able to create your own video game assets.
Attention! This course is about modular game art design, not about programming! Sadly, you will not learn here to code procedural worlds or script random spaceships. But you can learn to design your assets for that!
Who is the target audience?
Indie game developers who want to create their own game assets
Beginner designers, who want to get into 2D game art design
1. What is modular design?
1. First question what is REAL modular design
2. Is modular design for you When to use it
3. The steps of creating modular design elements for video games
2. Creating simple spaceships with modular design
1. Planning and designing the spaceship moduls
2. Create more moduls and guns for the spaceships
2. Create more moduls and guns for the spaceships.zip
3. Finishing the spaceships and assemble some variations
3. Design modular character game art in Inkscape
1. Start to create a set of modular cartoon faces!
2. Create the mouth and eyebrow moduls
3. Finish the cartoon head game assets by adding some hairstyles
4. Design a tileset for a 2D topdown game with Inkscape
1. Creating the blueprints and the first tiles!
2. Building more grass tiles and understand the design method more!
3. Draw the final grass tiles and assembling them
4. Designing the blueprint and first assets for the water tiles
5. Creating the final water tiles and assembling them
6. Planning and creating the road tiles
7. Finalize the road tiles
8. Creating individual tiles and assemble a game world map from our tile system!
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