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Paintball Net

Concept art, characters, and level design for Paintball Net, by David Michael, author of the Indie Game Development Survival Guide. We took as inspiration for the art style the toon rendering techniques seen in games like XIII and Jet Grind Radio.

I particularly enjoyed creating this place that was obviously cartoony, but also had the seedy, real-world-ish setting of an all-American backwoods trailer park that had seen better days, but which was now slowly sliding into a ravine.

The whole point of course being to come up with fun gameplay that could result from such an environment!

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