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Draw your OC as a video game protagonist! (Fake screenshot challenge)

Draw your OC as a video game protagonist! (Fake screenshot challenge)

Imagine your OC would stare in a video game as the protagonist and you, the player, just took a screenshot. Now what would this exact screenshot look like? What scene from the games story does it portray? You can do whatever you want with this prompt, but for everyone who might need a little help, here is my thinking process! Step 1: Genre What Videogame genre would fit best for your OC and their story. Is it action, horror, adventure, rpg, a shooter, platformer, casual, etc. in my case I chose rpg and horror! Step 2: Perspective Is the game in first (from the characters perspective) or third (you see the character from behind, side, top down, etc) person? Think about what would fit the best to your OC and story. I chose first person because of the horror aspect. Step 3: Style Realistic, comic, painted, maybe pixel art or 3d? You can choose to your liking! Step 4: Whats in the screenshot? Decide what moment from the game you want to portray in the screenshot. A certain mission, a fight, talking with an npc, maybe you are in your characters inventory, etc. Step 5: the UI (User Interface) Every game has a UI this one too. Think about what is important for your game to be displayed. Health, stamina, abilities, items, dialogue, info texts, etc. Either design your own or take a UI from a game you like. I designed my own! The rules of this challenge: - no AI (but you probably already know that) -nswf and gore need filters -no deadline and winners, but I’ll reshare everyones entry -have fun and be creative! Im excited for your submissions!

Challenge creator
Snakewithblade
Gamedev DreamsEdit: Wow, the Artfol layout sure makes this tiny. :-D I've uploaded a cropped version in my gallery so you can actually see more than 3 pixels of the chibis' faces.
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Oh hey, an excuse to make more game screenshot mockups! Granted, I don't think I've uploaded any here yet... Whoops. Many of them are kinda ugly anyways so maybe it's better that way.

But I decided to sit down tonight to get one done for this challenge! It's now 8am and I can tell I was tired by the time I started drawing those dialogue sprites but GOOD ENOUGH.

This is for a game idea I've been working on on-and-off for the past year or so. A story-driven RPG thing with a heavy emphasis on befriending characters. Because BOY, DO I LOVE FRIENDSHIP EVENTS! I want to shove this thing FULL of wholesome side-quests and character interactions. >:o
Currently my main focus are writing the story and events + figuring out the art style.

This would be from one friendship event with your friendly neighbourhood flower shop goatman who totally didn't commit treason... Okay, he did, but so did the two other characters in this shot! Meris just is the only one who was actually in a high-enough rank for the military to really take it personally.
I've dreaded drawing this flower shop but I DID have some idea for how I wanted it to look so might as well get a quick sketch done.

I set up rulers and everything for the perspective aaaand then proceeded to not even use them. :-D But they were there for emotional support or something! I also did the BG in Clip Studio which I've barely used yet. I really need to use it more but MAN, I'm still so lost in the UI and keep pressing the wrong buttons because my SAI-muscle-memory tells me wrong info.

It took me like 3 tries to copy-paste the BG into the final file because I kept pressing "Copy" instead of "Paste" in the drop-down menu... Wew.

The characters I still doodled up in Sai because that's where my character workfiles are. I'm not confident enough in CSP yet to transfer those files into the CSP format. x'D

I'm not yet sure what kinda style I want to use for the dialogue sprites. Do I want them to be cutesy? Semi-realistic? Something akin to western cartoons? NO IDEA. I'll need to keep drawing these fools to figure out what fits.

I have a lot of stuff to get done this June but I'm glad I got this done as quick as I did. x'D I kinda wanna do more but we'll see if I'll have the time!
Jun 9, 2023
#originalcharacter
#fantasy
#digitalart
#oc
#gamedev
Comments
YO YOU'RE MAKING A FRIENDSHIP-FOCUSED GAME??? I feel like friendships are so underrepresented in media I'm so zazzed about your entire concept whdhshd

I love the isometric style too! The overall vibe is just so cutesy and wholesome
This is so cool! Beautiful submission!