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FPSC Classic Product Chat / Level Design Inspiration- Master Thread.

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Bugsy
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Posted: 5th Jul 2012 22:18
I've been doing lots of cyberpunk lately, so that flavours a lot of these images largely sci-fi, but as I design, I like to compile a list of my sources of inspiration, so that I stay true to the theme and don't deviate and make something uglier, or more watered down. Sorry for the absolute size of my list. I'd love to share inspirations with everyone, so if anyone else has a few pics or other sources of inspiration that they'd like to share, I encourage them to post them here! The reason I posted this here is because level and landscape shots are selected for my lists based on their feasibility in FPSC.

Cyberpunk Inspiration- Public Master Linklist: (I'll only IMG a few of these to keep this from being a 56k warning)


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Poloflece
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Posted: 7th Jul 2012 16:00
Thanks a lot, I'll definitely be able to draw from these for my project.

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TGPEG
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Posted: 7th Jul 2012 18:31
Heavy Rain. What a great game that was. Fantastic level design. And modelling. And texturing. And animating. It was all fanastic.
bruce3371
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Posted: 7th Jul 2012 19:40
I don't think any one game in particular has influenced the visuals of my game. However, Half-Life has most certainly influenced the method of story telling...

Norion
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Posted: 7th Jul 2012 20:48 Edited at: 17th Jul 2012 23:12
This is really helpfull, thanks Bugsy !

Cheers


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Posted: 8th Jul 2012 23:46
well I'm definitely glad I could help you guys. I dont mean that the visual style of my games are based on the images, but the images give me inspiration to make new, cool looking screens and levels of the same genre, or sometimes even different ones.

fallen one
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Posted: 14th Jul 2012 04:32
Where are the original places you got the images from, I would like to see these tumblr sites.


Bugsy
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Posted: 14th Jul 2012 06:19
dude I couldn't begin to remember, however there are a few places I frequent:

velvetcyberpunk
ripperdoc (NOT .tumblr.com)
cyberpunknoise
slumscape
citieswithoutpeople
gairo
wraycist
internetgeek
kawaiisniper

Ched80
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Posted: 14th Jul 2012 12:49
Some great images there Bugs - great work!

ASTECH
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Posted: 14th Jul 2012 19:21
So basically,

if you are making a hospital, Google pics of a hospital.
If you are making an alleyway, Google pics of an alleyway.
If you are making underground tunnels... well, you get the idea.

Reference pictures will take you a long way!

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Bugsy
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Posted: 17th Jul 2012 17:18
google can be fairly bad for finding the real good stuff. I'd suggest searching tumblr, deviantart, and imageboards for concepts. google will typically only find popular stuff, and some of the real gems aren't popular.

maho76
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Posted: 17th Jul 2012 18:01
if you are making a hospital, go into one and make photos.
if you are making an alleyway, search one and make photos.
if you are making underground tunnels, go and get photos.
....
if you are making a scifi-shooter on the moon... think of what the room is used for, what items are needed to do it. how someone would work most effective with the enviroment consequences in how to build the stuff up and how much space is needed. use your brain and figure out how things/rooms work.



and yes, googlesearch gets worse more and more when you dont search for the newest youtube/fb/whatever-sh... but thats not googles´ problem, its because of networking this crap over and over again so they raise in rank and get duplicated so often.
maybe google can throw out the fb-ranking in total, it would become better?^^

DarthBasicVader
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Posted: 17th Jul 2012 18:11
You've nailed the right thing Bugsy .. Big G can be the easy way but not always the right one!

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Posted: 17th Jul 2012 23:16 Edited at: 17th Jul 2012 23:18
Well to every man his own. Google is sufficient to kindle the idea. I usually search over 20 pages to find things I like, although maybe I just have better luck then most as I find what I need pretty quickly.

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