Black Prophecy's Art Direction: The human faction
Welcome to part three of my Art Direction Developer Diary. In this issue I will give you an overview of the Human faction design.
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The faction logo
The faction logo used by the Humans to date is based on the emblem of NASA’s successor that launched the first colony ships towards Mars 550 years ago. This emblem did not receive much attention for quite a while as the factions at that time had their own logos during the later colony conflicts. The logo received recent relevance as a sign of resistance and Humanity’s origin through the coalition of the Humans in their fight against the new dominating races, the Tyi and the Genides.
While the blue Earth represents the origin, the outer golden rings outline the sun. The vertical silver rings are the planetary rings of Saturn in whose vicinity the farthest Terran outpost was located at that time. The eight small stars display the number of planets in our solar system, except for Pluto which is no longer defined as a planet. The embedded date, 2145, describes the introduction of the new Common Era, Exon.
The space ships and stations
Similar to the stations and space ships, the logo is meant to appear classical without the use of any kinds of aerodynamic forms or other beautifying interferences. The design of the space stations borrows from the design of the International Space Station (ISS), which consists of many different modules and connection corridors. Beside the design aspect, such a modular system allows the assembly of unlimited variants of a space station.
The surface structures are kept modest to not distract from the Human theme by using wicked structures. Throughout Black Prophecy’s story, the Humans have always been hindered in their progress and so always fall back to simple, established systems. Therefore there are no specific form rules but just the stylistic modesty that characterizes the overall picture of the human faction.
Elements like wings have only been used as style elements in single cases as they don’t serve any kind of aerodynamic purpose as with an airplane but are rather used as weapon carriers. The color of the ion drive technology is green as this color appears less threatening which suits the human situation as a suppressed species. This color wasn’t used throughout all elements as the overall picture otherwise would have become too monotonous. All glowing areas have been colored in a neutral white while windows received a slight blue cast. Altogether we have selected colors that can also be found on buildings in human cities.
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