Art Test 2016

 Now that Bugsnax is out, I figured I'd share my art test I did for Young Horses back in 2016!

Apple Dwelling by Megan Varde on Sketchfab

This was before I really understood the world of Bugsnax, so I incorporated food a lot more than makes sense now. But I still think it was a cute little project and it's silly to look back on it after making a much different Snaxburg.

BUGSNAX ANNOUNCEMENT!

The game I've been working on with Young Horses for 4 years has been announced! Very excited to finally share more about Bugsnax.

I will eventually be posting more art from the game here, on my new ArtStation profile (empty for now), and on Twitter in the future. I did mostly environment and prop art, with some 2D UI icons and such sprinkled around.

-Learn more about Bugsnax

-Join the Young Horses Discord

Train Jam 2018

It's about time I made a post about my first game jam!

Back in March I participated in Train Jam, a 52 hour game jam on a train from Chicago to San Francisco right before GDC.

I got to work with a team of experienced game jammers and friends to create Banana Foolishness! A game about controlling different awkwardly shaped objects around a Marble Madness-esque landscape faster than another player. I modeled and textured most of the objects and made the 'dizzy' animation after falling off. I also made the logo to look similar to Marble Madness.

You can download the game HERE and see other Train Jam 2018 entries at itch.io!

Summer Flowers

I want to model a handful of flowers this summer when I have free time!

I've been very busy preparing to move but here is the first one, coreopsis tinctoria:

Coreopsis Tinctoria by Megan Varde on Sketchfab

More to come

3D Printing

During my last semester at school I decided to finally try using the 3D printer that was available to me while I was there.

My first attempt was my thesis character that I posed in Maya and then used Zbrush to merge everything together on a stand. Unfortunately the ears could not print correctly but I was told maybe if I printed the arms separately then the ears could print right. I haven't tried that or anything else to fix it yet.

My second print was way simpler with just a really low poly crystal group:

I wanted to do more low poly pieces so I did a dog next:

I hope to try more printing in the future!

The Summoning Game Demo

This is a link to the Google Drive folder that contains my final packaged project from UE4:

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B1SFb7r2hIjMRnZDYlNZMVVsRzQ&usp=sharing

To play, download the folders and then open the first file named mvarde_blockout.

For windows PC.

The Summoning Game Trailer