Nick: Each slime is designed to have a different silhouette so the player can parse which slime is which at a glance. Can you tell me about the process of picking out the designs which worked and how you refined them? If it's easier we could take the phosphor slime as an example. Pip: The basic slime is a pink ball whereas all of the rest have a modification which helps players see what they are immediately - cat ears, a radiation ring, lava cracks. You don’t expect the same behaviors of a person or animal so there is less in the game that breaks the immersion. A slime dangling upside down stuck in the branches of a tree and smiling looks 'correct' in Slime Rancher because the slimes are these goofy blobs. And since we were going for a very physics-intensive experience, a creature that is actually just a spherical collider was the most efficient.īut additionally, slimes were a great fit since I wanted the player to be able to shoot them anywhere, get them stuck in places, etc and never look broken. In the early days of development I was the only artist and I’m a terrible animator, so limbs were out. Nick Popovich: It was always going to be slimes because they’re simple, limbless creatures. Was it a case of always wanting little blobby creatures or were they more complex but then you simplified them/placeholders you decided to keep? Pip: Let's start with the look of the slimes and how you settled on that. Let's do a slime art and design interview with game designer/Monomi Park studio co-founder Nick Popovich and find out.Īs always, you can click on an image for a super-size version to really examine the detail! I'll also include a few of my own screenshots to illustrate how a few elements look in the full-release version of the game. But how does one convert a ball into a creature with such a strong sense of spirit? How do you keep their little slime modifications from becoming a confusing mulch of wings and ears? What happened to the meteor slime? How does Gremlins figure in the design of Slime Rancher's monsters? And will anyone listen to me when I tell them puddle slimes are actually cuter than tabby slimes?
I've spent a looooooot of time with my slimes in Slime Rancher and watching them bounce and coo as they wiggle free of my corrals and wobble off like determined balloon-toddlers has been a delight.
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