Dev Diary #1 - Process

Hello fellow Earth-dwellers!

First of all, thank you so much for those who have supported SAMUDRA and tried the alpha, your feedback had been crucial and are all greatly appreciated! 

This post will be the first of many Dev Diaries from Khayalan Arts.

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We’re a team of storytellers/ game developers from Jakarta who grouped up in 2019 to form an Indie game company, TLDR we tremendously enjoy great challenging story experiences in whatever format it may be - especially in puzzle adventure classics like ICO, Journey, Limbo, Inside, Once Upon a Coma or modern titles such as Little Nightmare,  Gris, The Gardens Between and many many many more, basically we thirst to create a game with themes that’s close to our hearts, that we can enjoy playing ourselves and be proud of for a long time :)

So today I'd like to share a little process on how we approach one of the early environment art & design.

The process of getting a scene done in SAMUDRA usually goes like this:

Intense Research > Brainstorming > Concepting the level > 

Drafting > Play-testing > Re-adjusting > Color blocking > Decor/ layering >

Re-adjust again > Polishing > VFX > SFX > OST

Re-adjust again again > Play-testing again > Look up tutorials, learn new stuff

Re-adjust again again again > Play-testing again again again >

Thought of new idea > Repeat step 1 >

#indielife #jokebutnojoke #tryingtobemoreefficient

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What do you guys think of the art style so far? Feel free to leave your thoughts, feedback or anything you'd like to ask us in the comments below! We’re still learning as we go, any input would be super useful :D 

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That’s all for this week! I’ll be posting a Dev Diary every weekend (hopefully) from now on, where I'll be exploring some of the ideologies/ concept behind this game, from the settings/ themes, to the artstyle, mechanics, music, format, collaborations and so on.

Also, we’ve been posting visual updates on our Social Medias every Friday since the start of 2020, so feel free to follow the progress there too!

https://twitter.com/khayalan_arts/

https://www.instagram.com/samudra_game/

https://www.facebook.com/khayalan.arts.9

Also don’t forget to wish-list SAMUDRA on Steam :D

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1116260/SAMUDRA/

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Thank you for the support!

-El