This repo contains files and examples to help you build game-inspired voxel art.
We’ve got exciting news. We’ve voted and the results of our Inspiring Games Contest are in! See if you won or just admire the amazing artwork from our winners and finalists.
Close your eyes and think back to your childhood. Can you remember the games you loved to play after a long day at school? We wanted to make it easy for you to bring some of those childhood memories back to life (or at least to 3D), so we created this repo.
At Akamai, we deliver content for some of the world's biggest game companies, influencing millions of players' lives daily. We love gaming on our team and have always been inspired by the new ideas, stories, and tech that comes from games. And we know that a lot of you feel the same way.
We commissioned Zach Soares, a voxel art teacher and designer, to create a set of game-themed templates and building blocks. In this repo, you’ll find voxel templates, example artwork, and some tips from Zach to help you get started.
Our developer community constantly inspires us by sharing interesting, funny, and useful projects. So, in the hopes of giving back, we’ll be adding new building blocks and examples to this repo to inspire artwork that brings back that familiar nostalgia of early games.
If you create something awesome that you’d like to share, send it over to us on Twitter!
This GitHub repo contains all the files you need to build your own retro game-inspired voxel art. We’ll be providing the template and adding new examples each week that you can use as building blocks or inspiration. All you need to do is star and follow this repo to get updates as we release new scenes.
- Star and follow this repo to get notified when we release new scenes that you can use to build your own artwork, or just for inspiration.
- Download the template file here(models folder in this repo) and open it in your favorite voxel editor. If you’re new to voxel art, we suggest using MagicaVoxel, a free voxel editor, but there are other great options out there.
- Model your retro game-inspired scene inside of the monitor. You can use the area inside of the monitor or expand outside of its borders. Try to take advantage of the 3D space. Need inspiration? We wrote out some tips to use the models.
- Export a rendering of your scene and share it on Twitter using the following hashtags so we can see what you’ve created and share with our community: @akamaidev #inspiringgamescenes
Want some tips on how to get the most from these files? Zach Soares put together a tips to using the models guide.
🏆 ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS! We received some incredible submissions and along with Zach Soares (@voxels), we’ve chosen our winners!
Check out our grand prize winners below.
left to right: AbductedbyPixels, AustinACreative, Mango_Voxel
left to right: Johnny Clark, Big Boy, Justin LeDuc
Thank you to everyone who participated in the Inspiring Game Scenes Contest, we had some great submissions and a ton of fun engaging with the vibrant voxel and gaming community.
Need more gaming in your life? Enter Ludum Dare’s 51st game jam, coming this September 30th- October 2nd
Have Questions? DM us on Twitter @akamaidev