Shunxin's Journal

Shunxin's Journal is a side story within the storm universe.
See further down for more information about the storm universe.
On this page you can find all the concept art and scrapped ideas I have made for this project. along with all the characters and creature designs.
Storm Specific Project Links
Senior Capstone Project
The game focuses on Shunxin, who is our main protagonist. Shunxin is a young man who is deeply passionate about insects. He has the sudden realization that the "demons" that have plagued the world are actually giant bugs.
In Game Screenshots

Main Menu

In Game Dialogue

Journal
Ingame Assets / Scrapped assets & concepts

Bunny Scrapped

Bee

Shun's Idle Sprite Scrapped

Beheader Sprites /semi scrapped

Dragon fly concept

Whisperer retreat - scrapped

False Angel Concept

Character Lineup sketch

Scrapped Character Talk Sprites
I worked on plenty of characters and animations that unfortunately did not make it into my game due to time.

Main menu concept sketch

Original Tutorial level idea

original splash screen - scrapped

Shunxin finds the whisperer corpse

Bee Killing Whisperer Illustration

Shunxin Game Icon

Diverse insect species concepts
The Storm

The Storm takes place in an industerial age /Semi-Fantasy/East Asian Province. Which has been taken over by inter-dimensional creatures. These creatures are why the world is plunged into a cold wasteland.
Storm Specific Project Links
The Storm World Building
I have been working on the storm since 2021 mostly playing around with the world and creature concepts. Not until 2023 I started to plan character designs and creature designs.The original idea of "The Storm" Focuses on a polyamorous trio who have to adapt and survive their now apocalyptic world infested with "demonic" creatures.
The Storm Trio Summery: We follow the lives of this polyamorous trio. One of them is the newly crowned empress, Lin Leying, who flees the city with her partners and guards; Zhongyang & Shunxin. They head to the countryside. As the years pass on and the three manage to survive, Shunxin doesn’t return from his supply run, forcing the two Leying and Zhongyang to travel back to the city to find their missing partner. All while trying to avoid being eaten by “demons”.
Official Character references
These are subject to change as I continue working on this project.
I am currently working on redesigning and updating all the characters shown below for if I ever make a full game revolving the trio.

Leying Ref

Zhongyang Ref

Shunxin Ref

Huntsman Ref

Tradesman Ref

Traveler #1 Ref

Traveler #2 Ref
The Storm
Concept Art + Development work
Here is an assortment of drawings I have made for the main characters before I started fleshing their personalities out.

Shunxin reference

Zhongyang Reference

Leying Reference

The Huntsman reference

The travelers reference

The Tradesman reference

Lin Leying and the monsters

Original Storm Concept art

Original concept sketches

Snowy Scenes concept background pieces

"The Huntsman" Original Antagonist

Devil's Snake Creature
The Storm Prologue
This is a character / world building exercise that I made to add more depth to the characters. As well as allow my self to get a better grasp of my characters. Below is a link to my rough draft of an idea I had for the prologue. (it was also a creative writing assignment for school)

Prologue illustrative cover #1

Prologue illustrative cover #2

Prologue Zhongyang

Prologue Leying

Prologue Shunxin
The "Demons" aka Insects
Here you will find all the storm insects and bugs I have concepted and devolped over the years.
Insects
I am constantly devolping these creatures and some designs have stayed the same while others have changed drastically.
Below is a link to my original "shunxin's journal". I made a series of journal entries for my character shunxin. Most of the public entries are of my more established creatures such as my beheaders and false angels.

Beheader Illustration

False Angel Illustration

Whisperer Illustration

Assortment of Insects

Insect Concepts

Bellowing Trees (insect concept)

Corrupted star metamorphosis

False Angel reference

Whisperer Reference

Beheaders Reference
The Storm

The Storm takes place in an industerial age /Semi-Fantasy/East Asian Province. Which has been taken over by inter-dimensional creatures. These creatures are why the world is plunged into a cold wasteland.
Storm Specific Project Links
The Storm Trio (Characters)
Official Character references
These are subject to change as I continue working on this project.
I am currently working on redesigning and updating all the characters shown below for if I ever make a full game revolving the trio.

Leying Ref

Zhongyang Ref

Shunxin Ref

Huntsman Ref

Tradesman Ref

Traveler #1 Ref

Traveler #2 Ref
In Depth Character Background
Here is an assortment of drawings I have made for the main characters before I started fleshing their personalities out.




















































