Frankie and Stein

Posted on July 10, 2015 Posted in a game of grief, design, gameTagged cmoic, comic, frankenstein, frankie, Frankie and stein, gae, game, games, hansen, interactive, new, stein, Sylvester, workLeave a comment

I have been working on an interactive comic over the last couple of weeks, which is now finally done. The comic is called Frankie and Stein and is about a young and lonely girl who creates a monster to keep her company. I would encourage you to check it out and rate the hell out of it. You can find it if you follow this link

Exam sketches

Posted on September 9, 2013 Posted in a game of grief, concept arts, drawing and tips, game, gaming, the apartment building, the appartment, The Scourge, UmberTagged anime, art, arts, bachelor, character, concept, drawing, female, freak out, fun, game, grief, hansen, illustration, little bit, new, of, project, revisited, scourge, Sylvester, the'¨, womanLeave a comment

for the Last couple of says I have been spending allot of my time at the Design school.

I do this because I have a project I need to finish for my exam. In fact, I won’t be able to go to the exam if this project is not finished, so I have allot riding on this project.

This combined with the fact that the exam is on the 17th, is adequate to make me freak out just a little bit freaked out. Never the less, I promised myself that I would finish this project by the end of september I will be damned if I don’t reach that deadline.

Until then, I will just have to get used to working night at the school and look forward to october when everything will hopefully settle down a bit.

re-hatching

Posted on May 31, 2013 Posted in a game of grief, concept arts, drawing and tips, game, gaming, Lee, talk, the apartment building, the appartment, The Scourge, UmberTagged 3D, a, arts, aviation, blogging, buildings, drawing, fun, game, gaming, grief, grieve, groove, hansen, hot, illustration, new, of, place, Sylvester, technology, transportation, unity, workLeave a comment

When you draw incessantly, as I do, progress can be hard to measure.

you want to be able to point to a piece and say that this was the turning point, but more often than not, you just can’t. Every piece you make looks in some way like the next and you end up kind of disappointed with your work.

That is why I think these “draw it again” meme’s (that I have made a few of myself) are so popular.

Only by recreating something that you were previously proud of, can you really showcase your progress. It is very satisfying to look at a piece and realize just how much better you have gotten.

This piece, was not quite that, but in a way it was.

Ever since I attended the Nordic game conference, I have been made aware of just how important it is to have a working prototype of your game.

Creating a concept for a game is great and all, but nothing beats play-ability.

a little over a year ago, I created a concept for a game centered around the grieving process of teenagers as my bachelor project ( follow this link to see it: https://sylvesterhansen.wordpress.com/portflio/a-game-of-grief/ ) and as I stare the prospect of creating my own original game,re-hatching this long forgotten concept would be a great place to start.

For one, I already have the art.

Now, this is not an announcement, that I will release a game, it’s more just a small progress report on a project that will likely never see the light of day.

What I realized, and what is gratifying, as I reopened this project, is just how much more skill I have required since I did this project. Things that were a struggle then, now come to me easily, such as the city scape you see above.

it is good to know, as I embark on this project, that I am in a better place than I was last. Even if the game never sees the light of day