SEEDS Project - Preproduction Research

Welcome, Wanderers !
In 2021, I had the chance to work as an Art Director and Creative Director on a project that really counted for me, within the team of Lightbulb Crew. This "Cyber ​​Fantasy JRPG" project was unfortunately canceled during its pre-production stage, without ever being announced.
I will now reveal some of the concepts that I produced during the research phase of this project, which I will call here "SEEDS". Some of you will probably recognize in which universe this game was meant to be, and the small team we had at that time had injected a lot of (dark) love into it.

"SEEDS" was meant to be a JRPG with a touch of rogue-lite, in a universe that mixed Giger/Nihei inspirations with classic dark fantasy, all in organic armor and titanic monsters - we called this art style "Giger Fantasy" between us!

At the head of a group of charismatic heroes, the player was going to discover the infinite floors of the Umbilical Tower, its mysteries and its ferocious creatures. You could germinate, grow and strengthen the cyber-organic bodies of your heroes, in order to throw them into bloody visceral battles (yes, with a lot of dismemberment haha). If the body of one of your protagonists was too damaged, or if you wanted to explore new RPG builds, you could graft the head of this character onto a new body while storing the skills learned into their memories.

I will post several elements of this pre-production, as well as the evolution it has undergone over the months!
Hoping that it will inspire you with great adventures and twisted, tormented, tortured worlds…

A huge thank you to the team who accompanied me during this (too short) epic at the time: you were and still are rock stars!