November 28, 2006
Concept art
When designing a game like Tribal Trouble, a lot of ideas about the artwork have to be communicated. The best way of doing this is simply drawing what you have in mind, and that has resulted in quite a few sketches. Most of them have been drawn by actual artists, but us developers also had to use our very limited artistic skills once in a while. In this article I share a few of the many drawings sent between us and freelance artists.
At first we had a local artist doing some sketches for us, but we ended up using the talented brit Chaz for the job instead. These are some of the sketches the first guy drew.
Chaz sent an amazing amount of sketches to help us choose just the units/buildings/things we wanted. Here you see both some of his early and some of his later work with the units for each tribe:
We also had a lot to chose from when it came to buildings. Here are some of them:
He also did a lot of sketches for other stuff not related to the tribes:
As I mentioned, the developers also had to draw once in a while, to let each other and the artists know how things should be designed. Here are some scans of the maps I drew when I designed the campaigns. They were used as notes to what I had left to do, and as concept art for Chaz to draw the real map.
In order to let Chaz know what the point was with the chicken weapons, Jacob and Mikkel drew this little sketch explaining how to build a chicken weapon. It also explains why we are developers and not artists 
November 29th, 2006 at 4:53 am
wow, nice artwork! i think that oddlabs should have used some of the other towers and quarters. or maybe i am just tired of the the current designs. very much enjoyed seeing some of the prototypes of early tribal trouble concepts. thanks for the release!
Indigo
November 29th, 2006 at 11:08 am
i think that the current drawings are amazing, iv seen some of these pics on google before, just type in tribal trouble in the image search, and this’ll be there somewhere
November 29th, 2006 at 12:32 pm
lol, Mikkel and Jacob should take some art lessons, my little sis can draw better! (jk)
November 29th, 2006 at 5:47 pm
i think some of the native buildings look better on the drawings…
November 30th, 2006 at 4:43 am
from the pictures here the game looks a lot better and amazing how the drawings came out
November 30th, 2006 at 9:31 am
as mozer said, some drawings do look better than the actual selected ones
December 1st, 2006 at 9:40 am
what did you say mambo? i the courtisy to spell your name correctly
December 1st, 2006 at 10:49 am
“i the courtisy”???
the heck u saying, that made no sense at all
December 1st, 2006 at 9:26 pm
you cant spell my name properly?
December 3rd, 2006 at 9:36 pm
im not talking to you, i was refering to “Mozer” check the convo carefully ull see that mozer has also poster a comment (not Razor!!!)
December 5th, 2006 at 1:02 am
those are cool pics.
January 17th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
they sould have chinese guys to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it would be cool it gets a little boring
with just vickings and natives!!
February 19th, 2007 at 10:41 am
nice buildings.(i wish i lived there lol)
June 24th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
can you make more buidings please then it would be better