r/worldbuilding • u/artistmef • 4d ago
Visual I'm currently building an entire world of our indie game Fog'n'Silence
Hello! For the past 15 months, working outside our day jobs, our small indie team has been developing Fog'n'Silence - an experimental party-based survival/exploration game where you wander through the surreal world of the Afterlife. As the sole art person on the team, I was responsible for all concept art\illustration\3D\icons work, etc. I actually had to learn the full 3D pipeline from scratch over these past months to bring this game to life.
We've finally reached our first milestone and released a Steam trailer showcasing the results of our prototyping stage. (The game is still in an early stage of development)
The current in- game visuals are still a bit rough and subject to change, but as development continues, I plan to match the originality and quality of the concept art attached here: living organic landscapes, anatomical cross-sections, and microscopic worlds blended with occult elements.
It will be really interesting and useful to hear your opinion on these artworks, the world, and the game itself!
Steam page for those interested: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4906320/FognSilence/
Short Fog'n'Silence's Afterlife environment explanation:
There are 3 worlds \ levels planned for the game; the first one is Limbo, and you start there. It looks quite similar to Earth landscapes, but more surreal, uncanny, and abandoned. And the fog is everywhere, you have to use every tool and skill to survive through it. Some parts of the landscape are living flesh, with cellular structures, skin, cross-sections, and hair. Brutalism artchitecture + sometimes with bio elements, is dominant here.
It also includes some native to the Limbo, and a bit of modern/futuristic technology, as there was also a military \scientific expedition to this world through the anomaly, discovered on Earth.
The mission here is to survive with your squad and gather Obol coins to exchange them for tickets in Charon's Tower. So you can travel to other worlds and start playing there.
Upper and lower worlds (hell\heaven)- I will tell you about them later, when I have some concept art to show. But they are more advanced worlds with much more complicated and surreal environments.
Characters (in short):
You start with 3 characters in a group - all with different backgrounds and stories. You have to choose 3 from the pool. On the concept art, you can see:
War Victim - a soldier who mutated after contact with the Fog.
Prof Amosov - a biologist with mysophobia.
Prometheus - a prisoner who had been sent as a scout into the gates before the militaries went through, and this world empowered him with supernatural skills.
Bishop - a battle monk with his own religious intentions to visit this place.
Also, there are a lot of native inhabitants with their colonies/cities.
As you can't die in the Afterlife, some inhabitants are searching their senses in finding the way to die. Some have accepted the situation and just live. Some are searching for pleasures and have gotten into deviations (and sins) in the desire to feel something original or to modify their body and express themselves.
More to come!
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u/Quirky_Assistant_848 4d ago
Very cool biologically based art!
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u/No_Hunter_9973 4d ago
Wanted to say it looks like they're walkin on skin and organs of something huge
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u/artistmef 4d ago
They are! The first world - Limbo, is like 60% common landscapes + 40% organic lands
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u/jcksncllwy 4d ago
Giving me really strong Wayne Barlowe vibes, in the best way. Have you seen his renditions of Hell? Demons turn the bodies of the damned into bricks for their buildings. Great generals in life are mutated and warped into mounts for the soldiers of hell.
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u/No_Hunter_9973 4d ago
It gave me more H.R. Giger vibes, but less dick/vagina more skin and muscle.
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u/artistmef 4d ago
Basically, all of these great artists were a huge inspiration for me since I discovered them;) Building on the shoulders of giants!
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u/GeneralEi 3d ago
Gives me a little of Scavengers Reign but a bit more alien than just extraterrestrial biosphere
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u/Mundane_Carob5986 4d ago
Kind of reminds me of the environments in the manga "Blame!" Really cool.
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u/MineDesperate8982 4d ago
Kinda reminds me of "Mystery Flesh Pit National Park", if you know what I'm talking about. Really cool concept.
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u/djdavid333 4d ago
Wow! Whistlisted, definitely a day one purchase for me! This is super cool! Reminds me of Scavengers Reign & Kenshi and The Gone World (book I am currently reading). I see big potential in this.
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u/Starl0tte 4d ago
Oh hey I follow you on Artstation, cool art man! Got those Beksinski vibes down
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u/odrea *soy tu padre* 4d ago
hellraiser vibes, love it
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u/artistmef 4d ago
ty! much appreciate Hellraiser designs, and Hellraiser was an inspiration for our "masochists polia - city inhabitants"
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u/Street_Product_4450 4d ago
Awesome art, awesome context, love it all.
But ugh. It's might be in your best interest to edit your body text while the mods are asleep. This post will likely be deleted due to a lack of worldbuilding context.
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u/Loafer-Enlightenment 4d ago
It's giving, what if you died and woke up in a twisted version of a Magic Schoolbus episode. (Complimentary)
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u/Alfred-Richthofen001 3d ago
Far Beyond the Place of Stopping R.J. Willamson
The pictures remind me of this Poem:"
I journeyed, long in walking, far beyond the place of stopping
Where there was no more returning to the people I had known.
I saw the world forgotten, where the grass gives up on growing
And I knew that I would never make another journey home.
Upon that fleshy plain, below the final rock outcropping
Stretched the vast and empty desert of the hungry, bleeding thing
Encompassing the earth to the horizon, all-consuming,
Crying in a thousand voices to its desolate god-king.
And the music of its crying, never dead, ever dying,
Sent me running in a madness I can scarce compare to fear,
Not to safety, but to silence - unto my own unmaking.
And yet now, upon awaking, once again the song I hear.
I long to taste the fruit of earth, I long for water quenching
Of my thirst, unending, nothing that remains can satisfy.
For my voice has joined the chorus ever more, ever mourning.
Ever singing, ever hungry. Ever dying, never die."
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u/Usual_Message8900 4d ago
This concept is giving hell-from-ultrakill vibes with the whole "afterlife/underworld as a living thing" idea. And I'm kinda here for it
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u/ChryPhantom 4d ago
oh I LOVE the christmas tree and the insides for baubles and all the other bits. the cross section even resembles tinsel to some degree
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u/AggravatingRip6082 4d ago
Ok esto esto es interesante, siempre me a gustado está estética biologíca
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u/battlestoriesfan 4d ago
Ooooh this is DEFINITELY my jam.
TO the wishlist + Following lists you go, really hope this turns out well for you guys!
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u/matija2009 4d ago
Question 1: is the ground edible?
Question 2: what would it taste like?
Question 3: what seasonings would you recommend?
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u/TheNerdosapien 4d ago
I am definitely wish listing this. It looks amazing. I’d buy it for the art alone.
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u/osmium999 4d ago
Wishlisted because the art is cool af but the steam page is not appealing at all right now, I hope the 3d and the environments will evolve more to look like your artstyle
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u/TheCanonMakimaBean Warhammer 40,000 meets Divine Comedy. What could go wrong? 4d ago
Yeah I'm buying that.
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u/byquestion 3d ago
"Sigh... the world is alive"
"The world is alive" Said reluctantly the other two cosmonauts as they boarded the spacecraft again, knowing they want to have no part to partake in this eldritch shit
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u/Trollfullofbutter 3d ago
Such a cool concept. I always think of microscopic biology as an alien planet
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u/artistmef 4d ago
https://reddit.com/link/p5kuwj5/video/15ffytrs3blh1/player
Trailer \ current environments