Scary Sushi: Trick or Treat Event (Halloween Update)

This was a contract request, for Scary Sushi’s Halloween Update in collaboration with Roblox’s ‘The Haunt’ event, completed in under 24 hours over the span of a couple days.

Scary Sushi is a co-op horror cooking game, where players must compete in a cooking competition in a race against time and monsters throughout the contest.

The primary objectives with this update was to create an immersive Halloween themed lobby, workstations, and candy assets for players to collect. Some challenges presented were producing an environment, identify where we could cut corners, and to conceptualize & create workstation themes for the players to earn all under a week.

I have been assigned a few workstations in the past, and having seen Scary Sushi’s community suggestions, have gathered a strong understanding of what players may find appealing. I jotted a list of ideas for the client on the spot, and we mutually agreed on the themes before moving forward. Very few workstations have moving elements, so for Ghostly and Frankenstein’s workstations I was determined to add more movement where possible, just to make these stations shine. Additionally, before this events production, I also created October’s ‘Witch Hut’ workstation, which has been included in this post.

The player needed a limited currency to collect, so I opted to make some candy! These candies all utilize a simple color map for all 3 pieces. I also made some quick icons in blender for the UI.

The environment’s blockout was quickly established and approved by the client, and we mutually agreed for time’s sake to utilized pre-produced assets where we could. About 40% of the assets utilized in this environment were used from this pack, whereas the other assets utilized were created by me. We opted to utilize Roblox Materials primarily for texturing as well, to avoid UV mapping & texturing times and to ensure the map was consistent with the pre-established style of the game. From there, I utilized reference and sources of inspiration (primarily Victorian homes and the haunted mansion from Disney’s early 2000s movie), jammed out to the Haunted Mansion soundtrack/Halloween Lofi, and captured the essence of a eerie, spooky mansion!

Blender, Substance Painter, and Roblox Studio were utilized throughout this run.