Monster Designs

Above: Monster Design Ideas

We decided to use a paper craft style for the textures. Because of this, I drew monsters with geometric shapes, folds, flat planes, or shapes otherwise reminiscent of paper.

Since our level theme is anxiety, I chose to use sharp edges, triangles, and twisted forms as the basic shapes for each monster. The style of each eye reflects this. Many monsters have triangle pupils. One monster has eyes based on spiders, and the two monsters on the bottom left have empty eyes. I wanted to make the monsters look unnatural.

My inspiration for the monsters came from some sketches team member Brice P. did for the main characters, which were based on crumpled paper and shards of glass. Alex G., who came up with the original concept, had in mind some sort of Eldritch Abomination.

Above: Monster Design Ideas, Not Colored

We were able to decide on two monster ideas. The monster shaped like a parallelogram is our ground monster, and the very last monster, a flying pyramid that opens up to reveal teeth and a void, is our flying monster.

The other two monsters on the bottom row, the twisted form and the eel, also had many votes, but the team decided they would not fit this particular level design as well. I hope we will be able to use them for another level in the future.