For the logo of Project PULSE we wanted to come back to some of the aesthetics that originally inspired us, Vaporwave neon were some of...

Trying to find something we all had in common besides a love for creating games and felt personified all of us was a challenge. Instead,...

When interacting with our enemies, we wanted to push the gooey aesthetics to include areas of user feedback. While we had FX for sword...

When creating NPCs, we sought to create a system that brought life to the city in a background sort of manner. To make sure these...

The lighting was very important to bring our art style together. We had a couple of narrative and environment elements we knew we had to...

For the pause menu we wanted a clean, unobtrusive overlay. We also wanted to continue the art style of our game into the UI. This means...

Despite the obscurity, we do in fact have an explanation for why there are slime-controlled enemies scattered around the city. However...

VSFX are the key to making any magic power or sci fi blaster look and feel like it’s actually doing something. Melody was walking around...

As a procedural systems designer, you start to realize that different things you have created can very quickly take on lives of their...

Today’s topic was quite a challenge for me, as I haven’t done animation for Unreal before working on Project Pulse. Thankfully, these...

When creating our procedurally generated city, we've split things up into a number of categories and sub-categories. Two of these main...

Weapons play a key role in any game that revolves around fighting in some way. They are an essential component to connecting players to...

Melody was the first character I started making, and she went through a lot of style experiments. I wanted our characters to have...

The original concept was to create a system that was relatively random, having roads that darted left and right in a random zig-zag...

As with our level design, we wanted to allow for flexibility and modularity in our material work. As opposed to painting...

Since Project Pulse’s environment is procedurally generated, we had to set-dress the city block by block. Our focus here was to make our...

Our primary goal was to cover each of the main high school stereotypes (jock, cheerleader/preppy, goth, nerd) in our 4 main characters...

Because we knew pretty early that plenty would be happening on-screen simultaneously, minimal and compact UI design was a must...

As we were concepting the idea of Project Pulse, we were actively toying around with the idea that we could use procedurally generated...

Once we decided on the overall theme and design of this game, those in and out of the art team took a day to gather up images and create...