![]() ![]() I originally was going to say that RimWorld’s theme and narrative are dark. The RimWorld storytelling (or narrative) is great, but it’s great because it’s really emotional. I have so many great stories from this game I tell them to some of my non-gamer coworkers and they genuinely enjoy them to the point where one asked me today what new happened in “my game last night” and asked me for a health update on “Kimmy”, my favorite colonist who recently lost her hand to friendly fire. RimWorld likes to call itself a “colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller,” and I really want to emphasize the storytelling part. I’m assuming most of you haven’t played or even heard of RimWorld, so let me start out with this warning RimWorld is very different from Stonehearth. They detail their workflow in a nice imgur album.Īsk in the Discord about the A18 art assets.Well, let me start out with the underlining theme and narrative. Ekksu has a great tutorial over on reddit.Vanilla art has a 2-3 pixel black border for “story relevant” things, like items/walls/pawns.If you want an off-set piece of art, add padding to your canvas. Increasing canvas size or shrinking the pixel size of the art makes for smaller items. The game resizes item textures to 64圆4, but you can comfortably work on 128x128. It’s advised to work on a square canvas.You can’t get away with detail that’s less than 3 pixels wide, unless it has a big colour contrast There are no/very few black inlines (or whatever the opposite of an outline is) - that’s done by shading or colour differences.It helps to have an extra background layer that’s completely black, but has a 1% transparency (this hides any white pixels that show up in game).Art tips on how to adopt the RimWorld style There’s still debate over which side of the storage shelf is up, and the open interpretation of the Scyther has led to some great fanart. Add as many details as you need to enrich the story and cut the rest. In a big field of trees the character really pop out while the plants sort of smear together. This means that plants tend to blend into the background slightly. Buildings and items in the game have a solid black outline, but plants have a dark green outline or no outline at all. As a simple example, Pawns have a thicker outline than items. The hierarchy is often established by the outline. Story-relevant things need to be eye catching, and the eye needs to slide over things that matter less. This helps people determine visually what is important and what is not. Scanning what matters becomes harder and harder. An image with a lot of detail everywhere might be beautiful but a game like RimWorld can have hundreds of objects on the screen. That reduces the cognitive load to read the image. Making the graphics really simple reduces the noise in the image. Visual characteristics have to easily identify what they represent. Reach a threshold of beauty that you can look at without psychic suffering. If it’s painful to look at, or looks awful, you’re not going to sell many games. The criteria for graphics in RimWorld are as follows: Following them will tremendously help blend in your art with that of RimWorld. They might not 100% apply to your mod, but they are important to keep in mind. ![]() The following style criteria are for RimWorld. “RimWorld has graphics like a novel has a typeface.” The design philosophy behind RimWorld is to do that which brings the most benefit for the least amount of effort. ![]() They aren’t too flashy or draw too much attention to themselves, they are used as a means to an end. RimWorld’s graphic don’t attempt to look realistic or detailed, they are abstracted icons that force players to tell the story in their mind and create emotion from there. RimWorld’s approach to game visuals is different from your typical AAA gameĬonsidering the emphasis of the game lies on story generating graphics take a backseat to imagination. Project maintained by spdskatr Hosted on GitHub Pages - Theme by mattgraham Officially unofficial guide to RimWorld’s ArtstyleĪ lot of the information in here is taken/paraphrased from a talk held by Tynan at the 2017 Game Developers Conference. A community-collated hub for all things RimWorld Modding. ![]()
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