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King of the Mountain 2

Hero-collector prototype with a ~17-hero roster of individually rendered 3D characters.

King of the Mountain 2 artwork

King of the Mountain 2 was a hero-collector concept built at Zadzen Games: players would gather a roster of around 17 fantasy and creature heroes (Amazonka, Anubis, Arachne, Assassin, Dragon, Golem, Jinn, Magic Girl, Minotaur, Ninja, Orc, Panda, Raccoon, Skeleton, Snake, Spider, Valkyrie and others) for turn-based or arena-style battles, framed around loot-chest style rewards (wood/silver chest art).

Only art, animation and reference assets survive from this project (character models, textures, bone-rig timing files, location concepts, and UI mockups) -- there is no evidence of a Unity project, build, or store listing, so this reads as internal concept/prototype work that did not ship.

My role

Solo developerGame programmer; character/hero art and 3D assets produced by Zadzen's art team (multiple artists, including a separate contributor credited as "Nikita")

Team

Zadzen Games · 2016 — 2018

Platforms

  • Mobile

Stack

  • 3D character animation pipeline (FBX/bone rigs)

Solo developer

What I did

  1. 01Integrated hero character art and bone-based 2D/3D animation exports into the game's character system
  2. 02Built core UI/UX screens (victory screen, hero selection, battle HUD elements) from the delivered art assets
  3. 03Implemented the loot-chest reward loop (wood/silver chest assets) as part of the core game loop
  4. 04Worked from a multi-contributor art pipeline, coordinating hero assets produced by several artists on the team

What stands out

  1. 01Roster of roughly 17 individually modeled and rendered heroes, each with its own render pass and animation timing file
  2. 02Loot-chest economy assets (wood and silver chests) built out alongside the hero roster
  3. 03Project appears to be unshipped internal prototype work -- no build, store listing, or shipped-project evidence found

See it in action

Orc hero turntable render
Spider hero turntable render
Location map render (variant 1)
Location map render (variant 2)
Minotaur hero render
Minotaur hero render from the KOTM2 roster
Raccoon hero render
Anubis hero render (blue variant)
AngelMon hero render (blue variant)
Air Warrior hero render
Arachne hero render
Magic Girl hero render
Silver loot chest render
Silver chest reward asset