
Your Culture
When it comes to Primal Fury we knew we wanted a new Wild nature affinity themed culture. We started with some early mood exploration, playing with a neolithic vibe combined with animism, spirituality and tribal motifs -










Your City
Your city has 4 visual tiers, it should also show what wall defenses have been built, and have room for units and a wizard tower to spawn ontop. To communicate this we have a clear breakdown and composition of how a city is made. Firstly, the main tower which acts as the focal point. When it comes to the wild city we opted for a capstone that would switch it’s visual based on the sub-culture pick. Next we use secondary and tertiary towers, playing with scale and bridges to lead the eye to the center. We then place very small houses around to really push the scale of the city. Lastly we add particle FX like smoke, torches and fireflies, again these are coloured towards your sub-culture pick -




Your Forms
From day 1 fans have been asking for a dog form, unfortunately we can’t make every dog breed so we decided to narrow it down to what we call the doge form, here’s the initial concept art and sculpt based off of our very own Senior Dragon Artist, Maki -



Return of the Naga
We wanted to test a new method of Major Transformations that we haven’t done before, and that's mixing in different animals into your form, being a half-something…. For instance with the Naga half snake and half form choice. What would you call a half Snake half Goatkin creature? We achieve this by essentially scaling down the legs to 0 and animation blending the top humanoid half with a custom bottom snake half. This also opens up interesting opportunities for future transformations down the line, what other half humanoid creatures can you think of that you’d love to see come to the game?

Your Wildlife
We really wanted to push the Neolithic vibe here with Mammoths and Sabretooth Tigers. We go through the same pipeline with wildlife as we do with characters, first starting with rough concepts and blockout 3D. If we introduce a new rig and animation set we think about how we can get the most out of it, in this instance it made sense to also introduce an elephant as a variant so we could get the most out of the content being created. Some early Elephant and Mammoth ideas-








Your Mounts
We heard you! You guys love mounts, so we really made an effort to bring you some cool variations that play into the Primal theme. We can’t wait to see what empires you create with these beasts!


Your Icons & Interface
I’d like to take some time here to highlight iconography and interface. What I find astounding is that every icon here represents a new gameplay concept with localized descriptive tooltips, and coded gameplay. There might also be additional animation or particle FX with bespoke audio-


Bonus
We saw feedback on the forest visuals from the forums, and agreed with the sentiment. We decided this was the perfect time to take another stab at them by adding more variety and interest via additional meshes, particle FX and colour. Using previous Age of Wonders games as inspiration we added things like little mushrooms and cobwebs. Before everything was a drab range of greens, now have fall colours for the highlands biome, pinks for the arctic, every forest biome got a pass. We’ll continue to make an effort polishing the game, and adding variety when and where we can so please keep the feedback coming!

