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Art: Alien ship Observatory sketch
🕑 Added 2022-05-27 16:22:32 +0000 UTC(Spoiler Alert! Doctors story)
Hey everyone!
So a while back I sketched this room for the Plorks ship. It's an observatory, and as you can see Plork has been keeing an eye on Keen ship :)
Now the telescope really tells a story here, and so I wanted to give it a prominent place in the room. But just hanging from the ceiling didn't feel quite right. And placing it on the ground just felt a bit too...'human'? And so for a while I tried to figure out what to do here.
So I made a few rough sketches and eventually found the solution by adding the circular walkway to the image. I suppose it workes because every walkway/staircase automatically makes the thing at the end of it important... right? :) So that's where I added the telescope. And on top of that, the walkway also gave some more direction to the composition and left me with a nice spot to add some alien- computers :)
Now these alien-computers tell another part of the story, and if you click on them Keen will end up here.
You might remember that I made a red version of this image before, just as a first test for the alien architecture. But I decided I could reuse it for the story, and so here it is again :)
As you can see, this is also where the Doctors computers ended up...and Keen will soon figure out why. But... that's all I'll say about the observatory! Next time I will show you another room of this ship, and reveal a bit more of the Doctors story again.
I hope you like it so far :)
Have a great weekend & all the best!
-Robin
Comments
Robin
Hey Ryan! Thanks for the support :) And I do a game update every 3 months (give or take a few days) counting from the date of the last release. So the next update will be in about 2 months from now ;) All the best! Robin
Ryan
I'm a new subscriber, so I was wondering how often does the game get updated/patched?
Robin
Hey Dacer, That's well spotted! I indeed tried to stick with the blue/purple colors to make the enviorment feel more alien. But I think I will add a few more color variations to the details of the rooms. I still have to place a few items here and there ;)
Dacer
Interesting how the color palette used for the alien ship is very different from that of Keen's home ship, reinforcing the feeling that the alien ship is a "strange place". The colors on Keen's ship are typically very warm and/or bright, but the alien interiors tend toward cool and/or dark. A very clever bit of "color psychology" in play there, Robin! Thank you! :-)
