Judgement Ground game artwork
For part our course in second year, we were split up and put into teams to create an interactive fiction game based around Lina Bo Bardi's playground. We collaborated with students in the creative writing course who wrote the story and script for our game and came up with different roles for the production of the game, but our team had some difficulties as half of the people in our team disappeared halfway through the year and we weren't able to contact them.
To compensate for this, those of us who were left took on more roles and made more assets for the game. I took the roles of designing the protagonist, a few props, the background for the elevator scene and 'Purgatory' ending, and the audio work, as I've done some basic sound editing in Audacity years ago. I've also come up with the concept of how one of the three endings goes, though the final version of it is different due to copyright for the music I used in the concept. I've made a video of the concept version of the purgatory ending, using the music that we couldn't include due to copyright, and uploaded it to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UysxUFP1PA
The benchmark style we chose was Omori, so I tried to replicate the style in my art. I designed the old man character after my deceased grandfather and I designed a few trophies to be added into the background of the title screen when the player achieves its respective ending the first time. Our coder tried to use them as the icons for achievements for getting one of the endings, but it proved to be too difficult for her, so they were ultimately unused.
The game can be found and downloaded here: https://divinestudios.itch.io/judgement-ground
This is the cover image for our game on Itch.io. Someone else drew the background, I just added the protagonist from a front view into it.
Background for the elevator scene at the start of the game.
These are the different sprites of the protagonist. I designed them to look gender ambiguous and morally ambiguous so that the audience can decided their gender and moral standing
These are the sprites of the 'Old man' character who I've designed after my deceased grandfather. The sad sprite on the top right was meant to be used in the game, but our team's programmer probably forgot.
This is the sprite for the cleaning supplies used at some point in the game when a certain choice is made
Towards the end of the game, the player's actions are judged and these scales are used in this scene.
There is a small part where the player plays rock, paper, scissors with one of the characters. These are the different hand sprites.
These are the first half of the screens shown in the purgatory ending. The top image where the chair is empty was ultimately unused.
These are the rest of the screens of the purgatory ending.
These are sprites of the protagonist that were meant to be used in the heaven and hell endings, but were unused.
These are the trophies that I had the idea would be added to the title screen when the player gets the trophy's respective ending the first time. Due to difficulties, our programmer couldn't add them in, so they were ultimately unused.
These 'Game Over' screens were meant to be shown after the purgatory ending, but they ended up being unused.