2022 Senior Exhibition Artists 2022 Senior Exhibition Artists: Nathan Moura

About Nathan Moura

Nathan Moura is a game arts generalist that wishes to pursue a variety of disciplines. Whether it is a more creative career in designing stylistic game assets in 2D & 3D or going on to teach younger audiences how to think creatively. With experience as a STEM instructor and having the honor of being a lead art director for the mobile game Mochi’s Dreamland. Nathan has shown himself to be diligent in his work to deliver what is needed of him. Whether it is for creating video games or developing an extraordinary educational experience.

Statement

Overture has been one of my most challenging and longest running projects. The original concepts date back to 2/6/2021 where instead of a top down, vector styled dungeon crawler it was an 8bit pixel side-scroller. The original concept VaperPlague was a study where I had only focused on environmental design as well as narrative. From there I had partnered with Madison Chartier whereas they created the characters for the game. After receiving professional feedback, a creative decision was made to abandon the pixel style and venture into additional territory. Through this process, new references were needed not only for a visual choice but also gameplay elements that would make the game stand out. For this portion of the year, I had taken on all disciplines such as character creation, level design, narrative, and storyboarding. This leap was not just to translate pixel to vector, it was to expand the concept, and drive it in a direction to be something that fits together as a full game and not just a fraction of it.