\nEach Section of the League Arena is focused on a different Theme. We want to relate each section with a unique Brand, with each brand representing a parody of itself. The famous brands are Dr. Papas, Vacation World, Rubrick Pizza and Inrel and will be presented in the game.\u00a0Any resemblance to reality is purely coincidental. LOL. The player will face challenges that will relate to the brand. For example, in Dr. Papas Arena the biggest brand is a huge Pepper and the hazards on this area are the Fire Machines.<\/p>\n
We don’t have the intention of soiling the name of the original brands to which we are referring. The idea is just to get the best brands and represent them in a creative and fun way within our environments.\u00a0All Parody Brands were done by Omar Gonzalez<\/em><\/a>, the Artist of NML. You can see examples of those Brands in the image bellow.<\/p>\n League Arena Parody Brands<\/em><\/p>\n The First Decisions<\/strong> We searched for a lot of futuristic cities and arenas to use as reference point for the\u00a0Environmental\u00a0Art. One of the biggest inspirations was the Sport Arena in the game\u00a0Final Fantasy X<\/em>. For NML we are following a similar structure for our arena, but, in terms of arena style, the main references that I’m using are the similar shapes of the buildings designed by three different architects:\u00a0Chris Bosse<\/a>,\u00a0Emergents<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Erick van Egeraat<\/a><\/em>. I like their futuristic shapes, colours and dimensions used for their projects. The player will be able to see a lot of those references in our Arena in the use of glasses, hexagonal shapes etc.<\/p>\n Environmental Hazards Proping the World of NML<\/strong>![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.matheuspitillo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/pepperPost.jpg\" "\\"pepperPost\\"")
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\nEverything in our universe is hovering. We have tall buildings, big constructions, spaceships, flying cars, cables and turbines everywhere. At first we decided to show all of these, placing the buildings and everything else around the Main Arena. While the player plays, he would be able to watch the whole city working around him. But, after thinking deeper about it, we came to the conclusion that the player would never be able to watch all these small details, since our main camera is a Top Isometric View. The solution that we got was to create a huge glass flying arena with the crowd all around, and the city far away beneath the Arena. This way the player will be able to see the Main Character moving around the sections and also watch the city far away.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>There are four different hazards in the League Arena of NML. All Hazards are there to create a bigger relation to the idea of the American Gladiator<\/em>, since this is our biggest focus for our Arena Gameplay.<\/p>\n\n
\nWhat would an environment be without Props? The famous boxes are all around the League Arena, and also the outdoors, buildings, wall advertisements, turbines etc. To try to make simple props that add to the Level Design of the game and relate them to the theme, simple walls that creates close combats were made as Wall Advertisement. Every prop in NML needs to reflect the marketing and brands of this whole crazy universe. The buildings were placed in the environment to give a better sense of space, and to show how big the Mech is in this universe.<\/p>\n