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Dart floating in space-time from the game’s Title Screen. Here’ she’s reaching for a gold coin, the game’s currency.
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Early character sketches combining the vibes of Dr. Emmett Brown (from ‘Back to the Future’) with the White Rabbit (from Disney’s version of ‘Alice in Wonderland.’)
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The character started to become more agile and fit and less schlumpy, and after these sketches, we decided to make the character female.
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Exploration for the costuming of the character. Would she be more of an explorer, scientist, thief or military cadet?
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We landed on her working for a StarFleet-like organization helping to protect Time - note that this was a couple of years before Marvel's 'Loki' series and its Time Variance Authority - and I explored different uniforms she might wear in this role.
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There was a lot of blue in the game’s UI so the final design incorporated a nice contrasting orange. Here are a few polished renders of Dart used for explaining gameplay or conveying story in-game.
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Here are some of the contexts that players would see Dart in within the game.
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Some iteration on using Dart in the game’s app icon and the final icon image.