Jungle Concrete

Nature spirit Mother Nature and business tycoon Biz Ness fight for the title of mayor in this climate change themed city builder prototype.

About the project

Jungle Concrete was made in approximately three weeks for a prototyping class.  I was an artist on my team of five; the other members were Mitchell Young, Alex Koeberl, Tommy Roberts, and Oliver Creighton.

Jungle Concrete is a city builder that focuses on the struggle to switch to clean energy within a capitalist world.  The narrative of the game is that there are two candidates battling for the title of mayor over your city – it’s Mother Nature, representative of clean energy, versus Biz Ness, tycoon of fossil fuels.  The gameplay involves choosing to build either factory buildings or plant buildings in order to sway the outcome of the votes to the corresponding candidate, all while making enough income to win the game at all.

On this project, I was in charge of drawing the sprites for the factories, candidate base buildings, and the town hall, as well as Mother Nature’s character profiles and the ground tilemap.  I also created the ending splash screens and the title screen art.

Building sprites

Sprite of a small, gray factory with smoke billowing from the chimneys and orange graffiti on the side.
Tier one of the factory building
Sprite of a medium, gray factory with smoke billowing from the chimneys and orange graffiti on the side.
Tier two of the factory building
Sprite of a large, gray factory with smoke billowing from the chimneys and orange graffiti on the side.
Tier three of the factory building
Sprite of Biz Ness's base, which looks like a castle mixed with a car dealership.
Biz Ness's base, which is based off of Dracula's castle as well as a car dealership
Sprite of a stately looking town hall with green flags on one side and orange on the other.
Town hall, decorated for the mayoral election
Sprite of mother nature's base, which is a giant, magical tree with a braided-looking trunk.
Mother Nature's base, which is based off of Yggdrasil

Mother nature

Sprite of Mother Nature, a tree person with antlers and wings, wearing a green blazer and a neutral expression.
Mother Nature - neutral expression
Sprite of Mother Nature, a tree person with antlers and wings, wearing a green blazer and a happy expression.
Mother Nature - happy expression
Sprite of Mother Nature, a tree person with antlers and wings, wearing a green blazer and an angry expression.
Mother Nature - angry expression
Concept art of Mother Nature, Two versions: a human version with leafy-textured hair in a bun, and a tree spirit version with antlers and wings.
Mother Nature initial concepts

Tilemaps

Tilemap depicting green grass as well as dead, brown grass.
Grass tilemap
Tilemap depicting a river.
River tilemap

splash screens

Animated splash screen of a town with pollution receding, making way for a blue sky.
Mother Nature win background
Animated splash screen of a town full of factories, depicting smoke filing the sky and fish dying in the polluted river.
Biz Ness win background
Animated splash screen of an abandoned town. A crow is sitting atop a cracked billboard.
Bankrupt lose background

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