Would surrealism be a turn-off?

civguy · 2004-12-28T12:52:26

I first started doing some basic futuristic graphics for my game, an online top-down shooter, and people thought it looked ok. But I thought the graphics were too unoriginal, ideas just stolen from whatever scifi and real machinery is out there. Now I'm planning on taking another approach with some sort of surrealism; You know, stones with holes in them, gigantic metal feet coming from ground, weird eggs lying on ground. Yet I'll try to make it coherent, not just a mismatch of surrealism cliches (I am not yet sure how that will work out). Random pictures. Now before I even start with the effort, I want to hear your opinion: Do you think an average gamer would appreciate this kind of theme? I admit that my description was vague, but let your imagination run wild. I don't want/need any praise from them with this approach, they seemed already to be satisfied with the theme I had. I only want to do this because I like the idea (it is a hobby project after all), and I'm only concerned of whether surrealism would lose a game's audience. You may wonder, why I'm not asking those who have played it already. But trust me, it wouldn't be worth it. I'm just bored with the visuals games these days provide. Fantasy games trying to look like LOTR, scifi games trying to look like Star Wars and reality games trying to look like real life. There isn't too much effort put forward in creating a game universum that looks unique in some way. I've seen this done in some flash games and other small games though (e.g. many puzzle games). The Myst games also had their unique touch, IIRC, but the gameplay was repulsive for me.. So you can talk about some general ideas you have about surrealism and unique artwork, and how they would work out as game imaginary. This also heavily affects the design possibilities of a game, so I wasn't sure whether to post this on visual side or design. Don't limit this discussion to my question, whatever that was. [Edited by - civguy on December 9, 2004 2:01:46 PM]

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