Create modular game art and tile sets faster with Inkscape!

Name: Create modular game art and tile sets faster with Inkscape!
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Master modular design to create 2D game tilesets and game assets faster and cheaper from simple vector modules!

Created byIstván Szép

Last updated 7/2019

English

What you'll learn

You will be able to create your own 2D game tiles
You will understand and able to create real and effective modular design for video games
You will work much faster with Inkscape

Course content

5 sections • 22 lectures • 4h 4m total length

First question: what is REAL modular design?2:00
Modular design is there to make your design process more effective. But how exactly? What is REAL modular design?
Remember: Color is important, but not everything!
Is modular design for you? When to use it?2:50
When to use modular design? What are your other options? Do you create all your game art unique or repeat the same boring elements?
The steps of creating modular design elements for video games3:03
Proven 4 step formula explained to help you design better video games:
SKETCHING - PLANNING - CREATING - ASSEMBLING!

Planning and designing the spaceship moduls16:03
Sketch your basic spaceship ideas first! Than create a blueprint, and start building the simple geometrical components.
Create more moduls and guns for the spaceships14:36
We will draw wings, guns and other parts for our spaceship fleet!
Finishing the spaceships and assemble some variations5:12
Modular design at it's best! create thousands of different spaceships from simple geometrical vector shapes!

Start to create a set of modular cartoon faces!11:17
Sketch, blueprint and drawing the head shapes and eyes for the game characters!
Create the mouth and eyebrow moduls10:00
Eyes, eyebrows and mouth are the key elements to create any expression to our character faces
Finish the cartoon head game assets by adding some hairstyles17:58
Create some hairstyles and glasses to make even more variations for our design! Build some test faces to see how different the results are!

Create the blueprint and the first goblin head11:24
It all starts with sketching and creating the blueprint!
Design 2 more goblin heads12:02
Variation is the key! The goblins will be similar but all different!
Add three bodies to the heads11:41
Drawing the bodies of the goblin characters
Creating goblin arms and goblin legs9:54
To have a great modularity in our character design, all arms and legs has to match all of the torsos! Let"s see!
Create a set of fantasy weapons for our goblin minions!14:40
Simple and crude fantasy weapons - for more fun and diversion

Creating the blueprints and the first tiles!14:42
Again, you have to create a blueprint and plan your design before actually design the tiles!
In this lecture you will also learn the way to create perfectly seamless tiles!
Building more grass tiles and understand the design method more!17:18
Using the clipping mask in Inkscape is your best tool to create seamlessly matching game tiles!
Draw the final grass tiles and assembling them9:53
Create all 13 moduls and build a simple grassy field for your game as a test!
Designing the blueprint and first assets for the water tiles9:47
Using the same method as before with the grass tiles, you will start creating your water tiles!
Creating the final water tiles and assembling them13:40
Isn't it much faster now? Now that you understand the process, it is much faster to build the tiles!
Finish the water pars and build a lake as a test!
Planning and creating the road tiles16:11
Building roads is different than the other surface tiles.
When creating a road tile system, you have to plan for straight lines, curves and crossroads!
Finalize the road tiles8:03
Create the final junctions and build a test assembly from your road tile system!
Creating individual tiles and assemble a game world map from our tile system!12:08
Add individual tiles, roads and bushes to make the game world more interesting!
At the end of the lecture, I show you a test build of the whole world map!

Requirements

You will need to have a basic Inkscape knowledge

Description

How to create your own game assets the most effective way?
How to design unique looking game art for the fragment of time and cost?

Is that even possible?
Yes it is!

By applying the principles of modular design and making your game asset creation faster, cheaper and much more efficient!

What is that?
Modular design is a method, where you build up your game assets from pre-designed moduls.

During this course you will learn:

the principles of modular designs in game art
to create a fleet of spaceships from simple geometrical forms
to create cartoon character heads good for any mobile game
to design a modular goblin army with fantasy weapons
to make a platform game tileset
to design a 2D tileset for a Zelda -like topdown game
and of course a lot of Inkscape tricks to make your work more efficient!

My name is István Szép, I am a graphic designer and design teacher for more than a decade. Join me in this course and learn to create fast, cheap and effective modular game assets in Inkscape! Inkscape is a free , easy to use vector design program, that will make you be able to create your own video game assets.

Attention! This course is about modular game art design, not about programming! Sadly, you will not learn here to code procedural worlds or script random spaceships. But you can learn to design your assets for that!

Who this course is for:

Indie game developers who want to create their own game assets
Beginner designers, who want to get into 2D game art design

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What is modular design?3 lectures • 8min

Creating simple spaceships with modular design3 lectures • 36min

Design modular character game art in Inkscape3 lectures • 39min

Create (a modular) army of goblins!5 lectures • 1hr

Design a tileset for a 2D topdown game with Inkscape8 lectures • 1hr 42min

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