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WaxHeart: Shrine Hill area Props

WaxHeart is an atmospheric puzzle adventure where you play as a wax child with a lantern for a heart, journeying through a dark, ruined world in search of their lost memory. It’s an adventure set in a sunless world filled with monsters and mysteries. The light from your lantern-heart helps you find your way through the darkness but also alerts monsters of your presence. As you explore, you will discover the cruel fate of the world, and the role you play in it.

This is a set of props I made for the Shrine Hill area. This pressure plate is part of a puzzle power system, so it also required a modular set of power lines to show where it would connect. Each side of the pressure plate is interchangeable with a separate channel piece to allow the level designer to choose which direction they want the power line to come from. In many of these puzzles the pressure plates are connected to the big stone gate, but to these variable length columns too! They need to be activated by pressing a pressure plate or by adding a power source to a power station. They’re connected to these systems by power lines.
Gates modeled by Nathaniel Zapata:
https://www.artstation.com/nathanielzapata
Pressure plates and power lines modeled by Kristina Tran:
https://www.artstation.com/krismtran
Column prop 3D modeled by Naomi Borrego:
https://www.artstation.com/naomiroseborrego
See in-depth 3D model here:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/nJByx9

Wishlist the game on Steam and play the free Ruined Village demo here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2381630/WaxHeart/

Shrine Hill Gates early ideas

Shrine Hill Gates early ideas

Gates exploration and showcase

Gates exploration and showcase

Pressure plates frames and buttons iterations

Pressure plates frames and buttons iterations

Functionality and shapes exploration

Functionality and shapes exploration

Multiple power sources connected

Multiple power sources connected

Round of applause for my 3D artist colleagues

Round of applause for my 3D artist colleagues

Shrine gate with whale box (in-game)

Shrine gate with whale box (in-game)

Gates and pressure plates power system (in-engine)

Shrine Hill Column Showcase

Shrine Hill Column Showcase

Column shape ideation Process

Column shape ideation Process

Column decorations iterations

Column decorations iterations

Shrine column puzzle (in-game)

Shrine column puzzle (in-game)

Columns platforming (in-game)

Columns platforming (in-game)

Beauty corner with Waxy :)

Beauty corner with Waxy :)