SNDTST.COM : GUESS THE GAME, PAX Panel

I was privileged to participate in a panel at the world-renowned game convention PAX West, with Jason Sperske, owner of SNDTST.com. Jason approached me with a need for branded shirts for the panelists, where the audience of 300+ attendees would guess the name of a video game based on a song from the game's OST.

Using found textures and imagery, I proceeded to test which would generate a proper pixelated giant eyeball planet texture. Once I found the optimal material texture and low-fi conversion settings, I fleshed out the entire planet eyeball, adding highlights, shadow, and the big scary iris. The planet looked 8-bits of awesome, and deserved a deep space reveal, as seen in the final animation used to kick off the panel.

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I also created Playing Cards to divide participates into teams. Each Card contains a game sprite silhouette which also acted as the first question for each team, "Guess the sprite".

Be sure to check out SNDTST.com and see if you can Guess the Game!
A special thanks to Gage Skidmore for the PAX West photo.