Designing Point-and-Click Game Assets with Scenario

Introduction

Scenario empowers you to quickly and easily generate all the assets needed for rich point-and-click game scenes. No more endless searching through asset packs - with Scenario, you have everything at your fingertips to craft the perfect style and tone for your game.

In this guide, we'll walk you through the step-by-step process of using Scenario to design key elements of a captivating point-and-click experience, from dynamic backgrounds to expressive character avatars. This are just some examples of what Scenario can do to bring your game to life.

Let's dive in!

Getting Started

In this article we will review.

Composing the Background
Designing and Posing Your Characters
Creating Character Avatars
Adding Supplementary Assets
Enhancements

Step 1: Compose the Background

Start by selecting a model in the style you want to establish for your game world. Whether you use a pre-trained model or create a custom style, Scenario makes it simple to generate immersive, detailed background scenes.

Use prompts to describe the setting, and leverage features like ControlNet Depth Mode to further refine the composition.

Streamlined Game Background Creation

Step 2: Design and Pose Your Characters

With your backdrop in place, it's time to populate the scene with your characters. Again, you can use pre-trained models or create custom character assets by designing your own model. Generate full-body poses and if desired use ControlNet Pose mode to guide the character’s posture.

You can create a Composition to keep the style consistent by blending the model you used to generate the background with the model used to generate your characters (if they are different).

Composing and posing a character

Step 3: Create Character Avatars

For point-and-click games, you'll often need animated character portraits for dialogue boxes or other UI elements. Leverage your completed character assets by using them as reference images and cropping them from the waist up. Then use Character Reference mode to prompt for specific facial expressions or head poses as needed.

Story Rich Animation Portraits

Step 4: Add Supplementary Assets and Bring it all Together

With your background and characters ready, round out your scene by generating any additional props, items, or environmental elements using the same style model.

With your background open in the Canvas, upload the others assets needed for the scene and remove their background. Position everything as desired and download your completed image.

Download your additional Assets and migrate them to your game editor of choice!

Train an Inventory Style

Step 5: Improve with the Canvas and Creative Enhancer

To ensure your characters and background elements are perfectly polished, bring them into the Canvas tool. Here you can make fine-tuned adjustments, correct colors, add lighting effects, and more.

This step helps unify the overall aesthetic and prepare your assets for export. If desired, you can also Enhance the assets for even more fidelity and creative detailing.

Creating Animatable Character Portraits in Canvas

Conclusion

Scenario's user-friendly tools empower you to swiftly create captivating point-and-click game scenes, ranging from vibrant backdrops to emotive character avatars. By simplifying the asset creation process, you can dedicate more time and effort to realizing your creative vision and crafting a memorable experience for your players.