Sam Bedson

When designing the levels, we knew we didn’t want to have to write the player’s instructions on the screen. Players should be able to intuit what steps they need to do themselves with only very simple prompting, which is why we have the paper tag at the top right-hand corner of the screen. The note […]

When we were initially planning we had no intention of actually showing the Doctor to the player, (apart from his body in the final level). But as we were trying to fill the level 1 scene with objects and furniture, I thought a portrait of him would be interesting for the player to find on

The game is set inside a Doll Hospital in Victorian London, which the player is allowed to (with restriction) move through. We knew that there should be some window to view the outside world and hint at the state of the world as story-wise London has been filled with these organic parasites that grow inside

I made the base of the dolls as 3D models which I then screenshotted, arranged their parts, and drew over in Procreate. The porcelain hard parts of a doll were sculpted as 3D objects so I could reuse them for a base of all the dolls I would need to make. In the first two

In level 1, the player is introduced to their first patient and is asked to remove the doll’s eyes, replace them with new ones, and repaint the damaged makeup. The dolls were going to be a major part of the game so I spent the first few weeks working on how I was going to

One of my major influences for the art of Morbid Curiosities comes from gothic comic book illustrations. Not because we plan to structure the game in any way that’s similar to a comic book, actually all of my inspiration is found in the way that the panels and covers are drawn. I particularly liked the

When coming up with the artstyle for our game, I had to consider the themes that our game idea was based on. Those were dolls and Frankenstein, and lucky for me we had already decided on Victorian England as a setting, so I had all the key influences I needed. One of the aims of