Welcome to the first Feature Friday! 

This is where we'll be featuring pieces of concept work from various stages of development! Today is all about the Rhinovirus, also know as the Common Cold.

To draw a virus, you first have to know what it looks like. Google image Rhinovirus, one of the more common causes of the cold, and you get a multi-colored blob that may or may not be interesting to look at depending on your tastes, but it general it looks bland.

But you also come across the "Giant Microbes" rhinovirus stuffed animal (as seen here!) This is where we took the most of our inspiration, we loved the shapes, the knobs, and even the blue color.  Using the existing caricature of the virus combined with actual microscopic images we started sketching out our own twists to the virus.

This was the first pathogen we took from concept to the final, so it acted double as enemy design as well as general style design for the entire game. What we came up with through the development of the this character has fueled all other designs after it!

Come back on Fridays to see how we took other bacteria and fungi and adapted them to our game world!

Fact of the Day: Rhinovirus may be the main culprit of the cold but the familiar disease can be cause by over 200 different kinds different viruses [1]