Project Eternity Post-funding Update #53: Bestiary

While the update isn’t live on Kickstarter yet, heading to the Obsidian forums will give you the chance to read the latest post-funding update for Obsidian’s Project Eternity. This time we get a sneak peek at the Cean Gúla, a banshee-like undead monster, and a description of the process used to concept monsters for the game and flesh out its bestiary.

Here’s a snip:

One of my responsibilities has been creating the bestiary for Project Eternity. I’ll admit, it’s been a lot of work, but it’s also been a lot fun. Like most of the things we do here at Obsidian, the process has been very collaborative. We have a few high-level goals regarding this process on Project Eternity.

• Creature Variety – The goal is to have a large library of creatures to use for the final game. Thus far, we’re on track to meet this goal. The concept artists, modelers and animators have been tearing through the bestiary and delivering quality assets at a rapid pace.
• Recognizable is Good – We don’t want to try to reinvent the wheel with every single monster. As we’ve shown in an earlier update, we feel some classic monsters, like the ogre, are essential to capture the adventuring feel we are aiming for. Moving forward, we are committed to including monsters that we feel fans will appreciate, while giving the beasties flavor appropriate to the world of Project Eternity.
• Different if Cool – We’ve already shown one of the unique creatures for Project Eternity in an earlier update, the skuldr. We will continue to create other unique, and often times bizarre, creatures to populate our world, but unique doesn’t always need to feel bizarre. Different because it’s cool is the goal.