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Background Style

The introduction of pixel style

The game as a whole uses pixel style. The pixel style comes from the early arcade OS interface style. After the hardware performance improved, people generally gave up using this style and replaced it with a style that enhanced technical ability and artistic expression. However, today, the pixel style is still retained and used in the design of some game interfaces.

Pixel style is often linked to the dot matrix, when we zoom in on the dot matrix we will find a small square, that is the so-called pixel. We are familiar with 720p and 1080p, which represent the number of vertical pixels in the image.

Strictly speaking, even the finest bitmap is made up of pixels, and what we call "pixel style" often refers to the art style with small squares visible to the naked eye. Pieced beans, cross-stitch, mosaics, led light signs are actually a kind of pixel art.

Why use pixel style

With the development of pixel style, the current market of pixel style games have smaller pixels, finer color processing, obvious layers of characters and environment, and can reflect the material of objects to some extent. Works to this extent are quite mature and have their own artistic characteristics, as shown in the figure.

In addition, the pixel style also has the following advantages

1. The clear pixel dots make the pixel style have a magical expressive effect on details.
2. The use of pixel style can be considered a low-cost but expressive design approach in terms of hardware loss, and will be chosen by many indie game teams.

Character/ Props Style

Character style

Main character ：Jason

Alien soldiers ：Alien

Character status

• Poisoning effect(The border around the player's screen will be blue)

• Character health point style

• Character attack

• Character outfit : cowboy, alien, monster, knight.

• Character walk, crawl on the ground, run fast.

• The character can choose to use a different prop.

Prop style

• Easy to understand

• You can make it yourself and use simple props to make different props

• Number of items used

• Items can be upgraded with rare materials

• Special effects when props attack

• Different sound effects are used for different props

Background music

As the game background is the battle between humans and Aliens, so our music style will be futuristic and Cyberpunk style. Neo Tokyo - Cyberpunk Mix

Sound effect

While the player is being attacked or taking the props, the sound effect will also be added.

Background effect in different parts of the map : sounds in the forest, sound when you enter the desert.

Game Environment & Map

The game's maps are presented to the user in a simple pixel style. The game's missions and items are distributed in different locations on the map, and players can walk around the map at will to find and complete the missions.