Mute the Flute!
February 10th, 2018 by Marvin Spahn, Philipp Stenger, János Weyhknecht, Lars PfeifferIn a medieval world, a group of musical rats fight against the oppression through the Pied Piper’s music and risk being forced to dance to his tune in a turn-based strategy game.
Mute the Flute! is an asymmetric, top-down and turn-based multiplayer strategy game set in the legendary world of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, where the rats of Hamelin have to fight for their musical and literal freedom. The game plays a few years after the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. The Pied Piper has gone mad with the power of his flute and wants to forbid all other types of music. The last rats that were able to resist his tune plan for one final assault to stop him. The game plays in the basement of the house of the Pied Piper and has heavy contrasts between dark and bright places lighted by torches.
Responsibilites
- Character Artist
- Level Implementation
- Technical Art (Rigging)
I was mainly responsible for the character pipeline and the level composition. Furthermore, I filled the role of an Animator, creating the characters’ and some of the environment’s animations. I was also the vision keeper, since I pitched this project. To realize these tasks in the desired art style I conducted research about character design and wrote a research paper about “Visibility of characters in top-down video games”.
