Wall-B - Background and Enemy assets
Environmental props and art for Wall-B, a submission for the EGD x SGDA Spring 2023 Game Jam!
Check out the game here!
https://maidandready.itch.io/wall-b
Blast your way to the top and take back the last flower on earth! The dewdrop robot has taken it for some reason! (I don't even think it realizes what it's doing.)
The first few hours of our game jam, most of us didn't even know what the concept of the game was - only that we wanted to go with the theme of "bees" and "the end is nigh."
We went with an apocalyptic setting for our interpretation of the latter theme. The "bees" part... well, the game revolves around the concept of a stolen Bee Orchid... and the main character is named B-Cho...
We knew we wanted controls that were absolutely frustrating and counterintuitive like Getting Over It, but the art direction and the narrative was all over the place. It was a very figure-out-as-we-go process; very spontaneous, but very entertaining to work on!
Playing it wasn't as fun, I am terrible at rage games haha.
Controls Sign
To help with the aesthetics of "the end is nigh," we figured that player guides could be literal signs placed around the environment instead of pop ups of text. It was actually quite fun to make and customize! This one I'm quite proud of...
Tab Sign
Tab Sign (without pole)
Death Sign
(Points to a trap that will make you explode if you touch it.)
Resets Thrust Sign
(Thrust or boost is what makes B-Cho fly when she hits the ground. I believe theres an object that resets thrust for B-Cho mid-air at some points in the level.)
Resets Thrust Sign (without pole)
Slippery Sign
(Parts of the level are slippery. This asset was also reused in Astral Onslaught!)
Touch to Set Spawn Sign
(Used to explain the checkpoint node in the game)
Touch to Set Spawn Sign (without pole)
Robot - Initial concept
At first I was told to conceptualize an aloof robot, who just so happened to take the last flower on the planet. After completing this illustration, I was told we were going to switch directions and make it a round, cuter robot...
Dewdrop Robot (draft) - Idle
This was a temporary sprite for Dewdrop: polishing would come after I finished making the signs. I thought it would be cute if it made a reference to Wall-E and propelled itself using fire extinguishers...
Dewdrop Robot (draft) - Moving
Dewdrop Robot Final - Idle (without flower or foam)
Dewdrop Robot Final - Moving (without flower or foam)
Dewdrop Robot Final - Idle (with flower and foam)
Dewdrop Robot Final - Moving (with flower and foam)
Dewdrop Robot Final - Looking at you eerily
Final Sprite sheet of Dewdrop Robot
Piece of Junk - draft (background prop)
I thought it would be nice to have lighting highlights, but then it was scrapped by management
Piece of Junk (background prop)
Dead tree (background prop)
Cloud (background prop)
Someone's huge busted computer (background prop)
Pog Sign
(This was after completing all of the assigned assets that I had to do. It was placed in a very far hillside at one part of Wall-B's level. I never got to that point though, I got stuck at the very first platform)
My keychain illustration for Dewdrop!