Sticky Golf Visual Development!

What a change one month can make! Amidst some misc feature updates, I've been focused on figuring out the visual direction for Sticky Golf. My goal has been a soft, cozy, easy to implement art style to compliment the gameplay. What I've come to is this:

September to October visual changes

My visual target level (in progress still) includes the following major changes:

• Rounded block geo (built out of multiple pieces to maintain scaling)
• Tiling shader for pattern textures
• Shader animated grass and bullrush fringe for background
• Full background parallax
• My little bouncy mushroom!

I haven't done this much 3D modeling, UVing, and texturing since I went to art school in 2005! I've been having a blast flexing my old skills. Especially happy with the little mushrooms I made. Everything has been constructed with performance, and reusability in mind.

Mushies!

To keep myself on track, I built out a little mood board in Miro with notes on visual direction definitions. My key influence is Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, both the original GameCube version, and the new Switch remake.

Vis-Dev mood board snapshot