Eyeball Awesome Game Art From the Game Maker’s Sketchbook

Games would beryllium thing without the unthinkable creation that goes into the worlds, characters and icons you spot connected your screens, and each twelvemonth the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS), iam8bit, and fortyseven communications observe that information with the Game Maker’s Sketchbook. It's a enactment of immoderate of the champion enactment of the past twelvemonth from the games you love.

“The creator accomplishment and creativity connected show successful this year’s Game Maker’s Sketchbook entries were genuinely inspiring,” said Meggan Scavio, President of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences.

“We’re profoundly grateful to our jurors for their clip and thoughtful valuation of specified an outstanding assemblage of work. Congratulations to each of this year’s finalists! We’re honored to contiguous their artwork some online and successful idiosyncratic astatine this year’s Summer Game Fest Play Days.”

The images are selected by a assemblage sheet made up of radical from the worlds of game, animation, movies and good art.

You tin spot a afloat database of the entries below, and you tin acquisition prints of your favorites until July 7 from the iam8bit store. All the proceeds from your purchases volition spell to the AIAS Foundation.

Character Art Category

• Concept Art
  • Game - Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
  • Artist(s) - Per Gullarp (Principal Concept Artist)
  • Developer - MachineGames
  • Publisher - Bethesda Softworks
• Hero Design
  • Game - Marvel Rivals
  • Artist(s) - Dino, Yuzhen Zhang, Peilin Zhong
  • Developer - NetEase Games
  • Publisher - NetEase Games
• Michelle - Character Sheet
  • Game - Sorry We're Closed
  • Artist(s) - C. Bedford
  • Developer - à la mode games
  • Publisher - Akupara Games

Curiosities

• The Craftsman’s Heart puppet theatre set
  • Game - The Midnight Walk
  • Artist(s) - Klaus Lyngeled, Olov Redmalm, Victor Becker
  • Developer - MoonHood
  • Publisher - Fast Travel Games
• Merch
  • Game - Bang Bang Barrage
  • Artist(s) - zhudaoyu
  • Developer - Monkey Bread
  • Publisher - Spiral Up Games
• Personality Test Shareables
  • Game - Black Mirror: Thronglets
  • Artist(s) - Beverly Chen, Ena Kim, Hannah Nicklin
  • Developer - Night School Studio
  • Publisher - Netflix

Environment Art

• The Great Gold Dome
  • Game - Riven
  • Artist(s) - Jeremiah Castro, Lance VerMeer
  • Developer - Cyan Worlds, Inc.
  • Publisher - Cyan Worlds, Inc.
• Sailing
  • Game - IKUMA The Frozen Compass
  • Artist(s) - Matthias Oberprieler
  • Developer - Mooneye Studios
  • Publisher - Mooneye Studios
• Scene Concept Design
  • Game - Marvel Rivals
  • Artist(s) - Dino, Kaidi Lv, Xufeng Xie, Pengxian Wang
  • Developer - NetEase Games
  • Publisher - NetEase Games

Iconography

• Ability Icons
  • Game - Eighth Era
  • Artist(s) - Evgeny Kobylkin
  • Developer - Perfect Day Games
  • Publisher - Nice Gang
• Codex Icons
  • Game - Two Falls (Nishu Takuatshina)
  • Artist(s) - Tara Miller, Laurent Gaumer
  • Developer - Unreliable Narrators
  • Publisher - Unreliable Narrators
• Gui Design
  • Game - Marvel Rivals
  • Artist(s) - Dino, Tian Zhang, Ciyin Weng, Jingji Xie
  • Developer - NetEase Games
  • Publisher - NetEase Games

Impact

• Maxine - PvP Arena Mode
  • Game - Eighth Era
  • Artist(s) - Emanuele Pavarotti
  • Developer - Perfect Day Games
  • Publisher - Nice Gang
• Key Art
  • Game - One Move Away
  • Artist(s) - Remi Gourrierec, Michel Donzé, Alex Flynn
  • Developer - Ramage Games
  • Publisher - Playstack
• “Dinner” Key Art
  • Game - Goodbye Universe
  • Artist(s) - Daniel Beaulieu
  • Developer - Nice Dream
  • Publisher - Skybound Games

Storyboard

• Reveal trailer storyboard
  • Game - The Midnight Walk
  • Artist(s) - Olov Redmalm
  • Developer - MoonHood
  • Publisher - Fast Travel Games
• Chapter 2 ocular publication storyboard
  • Game - The Midnight Walk
  • Artist(s) - Olov Redmalm
  • Developer - MoonHood
  • Publisher - Fast Travel Games
• THE HEX - Beatboards
  • Game - Warframe: 1999
  • Artist(s) - Production Company: THE LINE, Director: Venla Linna, Producer: Tom Kay, Beatboards: Julien Perron
  • Developer - Digital Extremes
  • Publisher - Digital Extremes

Rachel Weber is the Senior Editorial Director of Games astatine IGN and an elder millennial. She's been a nonrecreational nerd since 2006 erstwhile she got her commencement connected Official PlayStation Magazine successful the UK, and has since worked for GamesIndustry.Biz, Rolling Stone and GamesRadar. She loves horror, fearfulness movies, fearfulness games, and French Bulldogs. Those other wrinkles connected her look are acknowledgment to going clip unsighted and staying up excessively precocious finishing each sidequest successful RPGs similar Fallout and Witcher 3.