{"id":7647,"date":"2023-02-01T19:05:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T16:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kevuru.smplfy.eu\/?p=7647"},"modified":"2026-01-07T13:01:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T13:01:26","slug":"your-food-majesty-or-2d-environment-satisfying-visual-hunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevurugames.com\/blog\/your-food-majesty-or-2d-environment-satisfying-visual-hunger\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Food Majesty or 2D Environment Satisfying Visual Hunger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mia Games\nis an Israeli mobile game developer that has grown from a small company of game\nenthusiasts to a well-known game studio in Tel Aviv. Artists, designers and\nprogrammers have gathered to have a good time and unleash the inner child of\nall gamers who come into contact with their games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inspired by the genre of merge games, the studio founded the Merge Lords direction. It included a number of games with different themes: cars, fashion, food, etc. And when they needed help redesigning one of these types of games, our team came to the rescue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n GOAL<\/strong>\n <\/td>\n CHALLENGE<\/strong>\n <\/td>\n TEAM COMPOSITION<\/strong>\n <\/td><\/tr>
Creating 2D locations in accordance with the game concept <\/td>Create a 2D environment for food court and amusement park locations <\/td>Project manager <\/td><\/tr>
Increasing game variety with new food courts and attractions<\/td>Create food courts for different types of cuisine<\/td>Lead 2D environment artist <\/td><\/tr>
Boosting player engagement by increasing the amount of game content<\/td>Create multiple types of amusement park rides<\/td>2D environment artists <\/td><\/tr>
Redesigning 3D content in 2D while maintaining key features<\/td>Create companion props for the food court and amusement area<\/td>Art director <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Initial Data<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The merge\ngame genre is not new, it features games that overlap with many other genres. Merge\ngames involve combining resources and other elements to create completely new\nelements that are critical to the gameplay. In some of these games, you may\nneed to combine 3 or more items, similar to match-3. In other cases, you may\nonly need to concatenate two or more elements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What makes merge games so special is their ability to keep the player hooked, wanting to know what update the next merger will produce. It was the constant interest and passion of the players that became the main priority of Mia Games when they developed Merge Lords: Foodcourts. In this game, players had to manage food courts, combine them, sell food and expand their food network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Initially\nmade in 3D, the game seemed to the developers not bright enough and appealing.\nA large number of 3D elements turned out to be cumbersome and made the casual\ngame heavy and clumsy. Therefore, it was decided to transform it into 2D.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The client\nprovided a list of desired food courts: Asian food, hot dogs, ramen, pizza, and\nmore. Their visual representation in the game was completely left to the\nartists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Workflow<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The process\nof working on locations was as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Providing several options for
    sketches for food courts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Making corrections and
    recommendations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Location approval.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Location coloring.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Location
    rendering.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Preparing
    for animation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Due to the fact that the customer continues to think about the optimal presentation of the location with food courts, there is no final render \u2013 the work was limited to approved sketches in the amount of 18 ready-made food courts. The customer plans to add a 2D constructor to the location, allowing players to customize the space and add trees, flowerpots, fences and other elements at their discretion, as well as to make a combination of 2D and 3D \u2013 leave 3D figures of people who are food buyers in the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    After the\nplayers complete the work on the food courts, they get access to the second\nlocation \u2013 an amusement park with carousels and other types of entertainment.\nOur team completed work on this location up to the rendering according to the\nabove pipeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In addition to locations and their content, our artists developed a juicy appealing logo for the game, as well as a bright and eye-catching splash screen that perfectly represented the essence and atmosphere of the game.<\/p>\n\n\n

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    For the customer, speed was a priority. Therefore, the original team of one environment artist gradually expanded to three people. Delivery took place every day \u2013 every day, one artist provided the client with three versions of the sketch for consideration. And if the approval of the location itself without filling was a matter of one week, then the work on countless elements of food courts, attractions, trees, fountains and benches significantly increased the time required to complete the project. For example, coloring elements took half a day, and rendering took several days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    From the client side, their art director was the communicative link. He contacted our lead 2D environment artist<\/a> several times a week to discuss current progress. Feedback was overwhelmingly positive with clear comments on possible improvements or small detail fixes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Value Delivered<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    During 5\nmonths of hard and painstaking work, our 2D environment team created:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \n
    1. 2 locations (rendered amusement park
      and sketched food court area).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. 18 food courts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. 5 attractions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. 20+ game props (bushes, fountains,
      benches, etc.).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    5. Character sketches without rendering.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      All the necessary elements were also prepared for animation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      Conclusion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

      Collaboration\nwith Mia Games has been interesting, intense and resource-rich for our 2D\nenvironment team. We have succeeded in providing the client with more than\nsatisfying results and boosting our expertise in 2D casual art environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Despite their apparent simplicity, casual games require great skill and proven experience: a highly competitive environment, a huge number of analogues, constant attempts at plagiarism and hackneyed game mechanics make creating a good and interesting casual game a real challenge. At the same time, it is important to understand that it should be good and interesting first of all for the player. It is on them that we focus when creating our game art \u2013 to make it the most eye-catching for the player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Your casual\ngame success story could start right here. It doesn’t matter if you are going\nto build it from scratch, complement a partially completed product, or\ncompletely redesign an old project. In any case, we will provide comprehensive\nadvice and a helping hand on all aspects of the game from concept to release.\nBe sure to contact us<\/a> if your\ngame idea can no longer be contained \u2013 perhaps this will come as a complete\nsurprise to jaded, skeptical players, who, however, are always secretly waiting\nfor a miracle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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