Glade-iators

For Glade-iators, I was given the prompt of working on a gladiator battle-focused game by my team, and asked to design the general aesthetics of the game and overall theming and atmosphere. Because I wanted to go a more interesting route than just having regular old gladiators fighting in a coliseum, I pitched various ideas.

The one that was most popular was making the gladiators into tree people, and having them fight in a coliseum that was made out of a hollowed out tree stump. Some other design choices I made were using the leaf-hair of the gladiators as an indicator of how much health they had left, as well as designing all of the buttons and the weapons out of wood. I also did a small drawing of the world that they resided in, that being a heavily forested wood full of homes made out of trees, just like them.