Nick Searle
3D Artist, Designer
About this Project
I'm happy to show off this series of drones I created for Frontier Freight, an economy simulator with light RPG elements that we're currently working on! Each drone is designed to contribute to gameplay in a unique and meaningful way, acting as a punishment for players that don’t manage their relationships with their less-than-friendly neighbors.
The Picket Drone punishes players that have angered pirate organizations by providing high-volume nuisance attacks. Not particularly difficult to destroy, they use numbers to become a problem.
Next we have the SWARM Drone. This slower pod-like drone closes slowly, but unleashes barrages of missiles if it gets within range.
Lastly, we have SPOT, our big ball of fun. The Self-Propelled Ordinance Transporter (SPOT was more fun) moves very slow, but is heavily armored and causes heavy damage to stations and structures.
Design
We originally wanted to release this as a mobile game, so I have kept that in mind throughout the design process.
These drones all reference a single 1024x1024 material, so they are very lightweight on resources.
