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Pivoting Art Direction

Changing the direction of a game can be a daunting task, but sometimes circumstances force us to reassess our original plans and come up...

How to Design Puzzles for a Cooperative Game: Lessons Learned from "Five Cats in a Trench Coat"

Designing puzzles for a cooperative game can be a daunting task, as it requires not only creating engaging challenges for players to...

Dragon Nurturer: How We Used AI to Rapidly Prototype Our Game Idea

As a small indie game studio, Arius Black Studios, we often find ourselves juggling multiple roles and tasks in order to create engaging,...

To Build A Castle Fit For an Empire

The First Region Of the Game, Abaddon, was once, long ago, A prosperous Kingdom, ruled By a Queen Who was Considered a sort of God of...

Hell, Just Got a Hell of a Lot Bigger

Warning: Livia is a PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR, some of the concept art is body horror, and gore. be advised. The Arius Black team has...

Time To Get Moving

So these character models are my first real exposure to er... big-boy character rigs. And the quality is just *chefs kiss*, Magnifique....

The Isle of Abaddon

" This place? This is the Isle Of Abbadon ... I ... make a pilgrimage here every few ... Centuries. I Pay my respects, and drudge out any...

Every Good Hell Needs a Hell- Scape

The first couple of weeks of development for Livia have been a learning experience, and I'm here To Get You Up To date: The first Main...