Thursday 26 February 2015

Researching the map: Real World Inspirations - Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt is an amazing place and time in history to visit and explore. Their ancient cities, kings, gods and tombs is a completely different culture that I find incredibly exiting. This is not just immersive rom the cultural point of view but also the visual ascetics. Egypt is so iconic in it's landmarks and history that I felt it completely necessary to include in our world in some shape or form. I however will take most of my influence from the old and middle kingdoms.


The cities could become extremely large, as shown below.


The mummification they used to operate could be entwined into our stories to create some really interesting histories.  


Exploring these tombs could give us some exiting sequences. 


Especially the large structures that hold many important people, such as the valley of kings. Architecture, carved into walls like this are visually exiting, and give us great ideas to work with. 


The unusual structures that are a completely different style to what you find anywhere else in the world can provide, fresh and new environments for our characters to explore.

No comments:

Post a Comment