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“We brought them in and showed them the game and they came up with this amazing pitch of what would it feel like to step into one of your paintings and go into the world of the genies and carry on painting in full 3D all around you. “Jeff and I reached out to some old friends of ours we used to work with, Jeff Brown and Dave Smith,” says Robilliard. Unfortunately, the team was too small to handle the development of a VR option at the time, so they brought in some help. “Everyone very quickly made the connection of ‘wouldn’t Concrete Genie be awesome in VR?’ because of the painting mechanic in it,” Robilliard says.
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Concrete Genie offers two VR modes: a narrative-driven experience with one of the characters in the game and a free paint mode with multiple different locations from the main story. One of the features added was a VR component.
He credits Sony Interactive’s Worldwide Studios, of which PixelOpus is a subsidiary, for allowing them the “extra time” to get the game where they wanted it. “It took us three attempts to get the painting mechanics where they are now,” says Robilliard. The game’s release was delayed a number of times as the team worked to get everything in order tweaking this, adding that. “It’s not just Ash’s artwork that the bullies are ruining in this game, it’s your artwork.” “We knew just from the very beginning that if we were going to take this on we’d have to make sure we had something meaningful to say about it in the gameplay,” adds Robilliard. Our main goal was to make anyone feel like they had that feeling of creativity and celebrate making artwork.” “We did quite a bit of pre-vis, as 2D stills, but also traditional hand-drawn animation to make sure that we made each brush stroke feel like it would come to life. “We were really inspired by stop-motion animation and particularly the way lighting hits a practical object,” says Sangalli. Denska is at times drab and oppressive, drenched in soggy grays and muted blues, but also vibrantly hued once Ash, aided by his genie pals, breathes color back into them. The game sports two very different aesthetics, both of which tie into its narrative. This story is really about Ash as an artist and the kids in the neighborhood.” “What became evident was that to make sure the city itself didn’t become too large of a character or too big in scale to overpower the story of the kids. “The whole world you see was built by two people on our team,” Jeff Sangalli, art director, shares. Artistic expression is a big part of the experience, but building the mechanics behind the magic was no easy task, particularly for a team of only 20 individuals (at its max - often, during development, the Concrete Genie dev group was only 10 employees).
“We came up with a whole bunch of ideas, of which Concrete Genie was one, and one thing that became abundantly clear to us was that every single idea had some meaningful concept or idea at the heart of it.”Ĭoncrete Genie features a unique gameplay dynamic as players are offered a variety of options to construct Ash’s genies and bring them to life. “When we finished Entwined, we sat down as a group and agreed that we really, really wanted to grow our ambition with the second game,” says Robilliard. Unlike its first game (2014’s Entwined, which was, as Robilliard puts it, a “student project” in many ways), Concrete Genie was a much more ambitious undertaking from the get-go. “Those elements of an artist, the bullying and painting these living characters in the wall were right there from the very first day.” That was the first image ever created for the game,” PixelOpus creative director Dominic Robilliard tells The Hollywood Reporter. He was imagining they were sticking up for him. “The concept was a little boy being bullied and painting these huge characters on a wall. The concept for the game (and the main character’s name) came from a single painting done by PixelOpus VFX artist Ashwin Kumar. Take-Two Interactive CEO: "I Don't Believe the Entertainment Business Is Recession Proof"
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