00 - Welcome !

Hi everyone! Welcome to the Codex devblog.

We are a team of six students from the CNAM Enjmin (Angoulême, France) game development school and Codex, our end of the year game project, is an AR augmented grimoire. Our goal is to make a short interactive game experience mixing a physical book and an AR device, built on a rich lore centered on a lost literacy-based civilization.
We have a little less than three month, a lovely workshop where we can work together and, most of all, lots of passion to share!

Yannis (game design) and Lisa (2D art) talking in our little workshop

Runic patterns on the whiteboard, we didn't invoke anything yet

 The first weeks of the project have been centred around establishing a lore and a consistent art direction while getting to know AR and defining our gameplay loops. We are now entering the production phase and we do already have a prototype up and running. Characters, illustrations and a final critical path of the level design is currently being made.

We will update our progress for you right here on this very blog while we tackle the challenges that are game and visual design for the experience that we want (expect to read things about AR tech, game design, art breakdowns and hopefully more).
Inspired by projects such as the augmented gallery “Alchemica” or traditional gamebooks, but with a puzzle-game perspective in mind, we hope Codex will be a fresh take on AR gaming. 

Thank you for getting on board with us !

          The Codex Team