Mission Lost Control: Characters
The last two months I participated in the 2021 64 Brew Game Jam where the challenge is to make a game that could run on a N64, my first console.
Theme was "Control" my Team, Ultra Rare, decided on a Moba game where you try to amass control of bases on Mars in a set time limit. You control battle minions to either protect or conquer more bases, and there are item drops that mess up your opponent's controller controls. It was made with 4 players in mind so all the assets were made with the lowest poly count I could go before it became abstract.
It was super fun and please check it out on https://jtn191.itch.io/mission-lost-control
Final Low poly version of Dog
Final low poly Cat model
Cat faction got the advantage of going after all the experimentation with the dog model. This is the high poly version of Cat Faction
First low poly variation after my high poly version. Still had too many polys
To get to the low poly version, I first made a high poly version.
Updated the green team for player accessibility
Team Colors
Final concept art for Cat Faction
Final concept art for Dog Faction
Minion Cat, they didn't get a nose because their ears were higher poly than the Dog's.
Minion Dog, they got a nose.
First idea for Minions, they didn't change much other than I needed them to be so low poly that having a lot on screen wouldn't crash the game.
Next good draft was getting closer
Since this would be a N64 game I wanted to capture that cartoony look. This is the first draft of Cartoony style
Decided as a group that it would be Cats vs Dogs game. I wanted to make sure the style of each team was different first. Dog faction was inspired by a more military Halo look while the cat faction was more Star Wars Storm Trooper kind of vibe
Early concepts for playable characters