As Lead Environment Artist at Stoic, I helped build out the art side of the procedural mission system for Towerborne.
Each mission is composed of several layers and randomized modular pieces to create the full scene.
The key pillars of this system were to maximize flexibility, and to easily add a variety of scenes, while solving to reduce repetition of both visuals and gameplay spaces.
A major benefit of this setup is the ability to swap the midground and skybox layers to create a variety of lighting and vista options, while keeping the mission layout and biome selection consistent.
The design department needed the playable spaces of each mission to be randomized from a selection of small pieces called stages. We made sure to supply every biome with many variations of stages in order to support that goal of randomization.
A single stage can be repeated any number of times within a mission, even next to itself. We utilized blueprint randomizers to vary the set dressing and reduce repetition.
Assets and set dressing pictured are made by a huge array of people at Stoic and Airborn:
Myself, Eric Dagley, Pavel Elagin, Sadie Johnson, Jimmy Malachier, Tai Walker, Kjeld Pedersen, Pedro Damasceno, Dominik Gröstlinger, Ilka Hesche, Jeremy Boulivet, Jonas Kunert, Valeria Traverso, and Kaat Van Thillo