HUD, Assets and Isometric view - COMENIUS 2

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Media-educational project that investigates how a digital game can encourage graduate students and teachers to use media in their classes.
Game Comenius 2 is in the sandbox genre and its narrative takes place in the 90s, where the main character Lurdinha time travels to the past to teach and learn in that decade’s context.
For this 2D version, two types of environments have been created: overhead view, which represents the interactive school map; and isometric view, where the character lives.

science classroomSchool map: early drafts, references, overhead view, setting and environment objects (assets)
Note: initially, the school map was a board game with pieces and cards. This prototype was convenient to develop the digital version of the map.

The school interior is divided in 3 categories: administrative areas, interdisciplinary areas and classrooms. They are red, blue and green respectively.

A square grid has been used to create assets. It helped with precision when scaling elements.

Science classroom

History classroom

Math classroom

Portuguese classroom

Computer lab

Multimedia room

library

Teachers’ room

Administration office

Principal office

Isometric ambient: early drafts, references, measurements, setting and environment art.

To standardize the art and to ease the process of mapping/assembling the environment (in Unity) for the programming team, a measurement guide has been created with the following items: height, width, distance between objects on the isometric grid, suitable image crop dimensions for Full HD format.

The map (displayed before) worked as the basis for the environment art, it has the correct proportions and positioning of the elements in a school surroundings.