Cheap Tricks

Screenshot from game. A deer skull skeleton with glowing eyes sits atop a crude scarecrow. There are many, many trees around.

For this project, my friend and frequent collaborator Maxwell Lander roped me in to design and build the creepy assets for this first-person, multiplayer horror game - quite the feat as I am known to be the most scared person. I am fairly confident in saying that I screamed the most during play-testing.

My role on this project was to take Max's direction as of the general feel and aesthetics of a haunted forest and create assets (as well as Rigging and UV Maps) as required by the needs of the game. This began as "Make a lot of trees" but very quickly developed into requiring multiple creature assets, a barn, and a particularly upsetting Deer-Skulled scarecrow. Not everything made it to the final version of the game, however I am very happy with (and scared of) the end result.

2 monstrous, glowing figures sway in the darkness. Their bodies glow orange, apart from their sunken black eyes and wide, spiked smiles.

Deer skull mounted on a stick-scarecrow body. There is a glow from inside the skull, and it is wearing a soiled jacket. It is in a clearing in a dense forest.

You can find more of Max's incredible work -as well as Cheap Tricks in the very near future - at https://snaxwell.com/

A flashlight in a dense forest of trees.

A humanoid monster, glowing orange, with a black spiked smile.

An old CRT, plugged into nothing, in a empty barn. The CRT is on, and showing old black-and-white footage of anatomy.