{"id":34224,"date":"2025-11-14T14:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T11:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/room8studio.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=34224"},"modified":"2025-11-14T14:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T11:25:12","slug":"pax-dei-art-for-a-sprawling-medieval-sandbox-rpg","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/room8studio.com\/news\/pax-dei-art-for-a-sprawling-medieval-sandbox-rpg\/","title":{"rendered":"Pax Dei: Art for a sprawling medieval sandbox RPG\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1995520\/Pax_Dei\/\">Pax Dei<\/a>\u00a0is an early-access MMORPG from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/themainframe.com\/en\/\">Mainframe Industries<\/a>, a Nordic startup made up of veterans from Blizzard, CCP, Next Games, and other big-name companies from around the industry. In Pax Dei, players explore a social sandbox MMO where they can craft items, build homes, and ultimately, decide their own fate in a fantasy medieval world.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The challenge\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pax Dei is an ambitious project. Such a game demands a lot from its developers, who must add new content regularly, be extra vigilant of bugs given the game\u2019s size, and maintain all elements of a large open world.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The art we\u2019ve contributed to this project was mostly 3D\u2014environments, characters, and weapons\u2014with some VFX, too.\u00a0The overarching challenge: make art assets, from props to animals and everything in between, in a realistic medieval Europe setting with fantasy elements, in Unreal Engine 5 with Nanite and Lumen.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See the full case study on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/room8group.com\/news\/our-work-on-shadowveil-legend-of-the-five-rings\/?gaconnectorId=36040250-cbb3-4ea7-9fa7-bdfc7e2af1ea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Room 8 Group website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":34225,"parent":0,"template":"","categories":[],"class_list":["post-34224","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/room8studio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/room8studio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/room8studio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/room8studio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/room8studio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/room8studio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/room8studio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}