Creating the cover for Of Lies and Rain was no easy task.
We wanted something that truly captured the essence of the game, its dystopian world, the looming AI threat, and the sheer struggle for survival under the mercury rain. Every single cover of a VR storydriven shooter has the character in the middle (even if you don't actually see him/her in the game because well it's VR).
So we started from there: Adam, our protagonist. A lone figure in a ruined world, standing against impossible odds and a ruined city. From there, we iterated—again and again. Adjusting the composition, refining the lighting and tweaking colors.
Everything you see in the cover image is actually stuff that you will find in game, we didn't want to make a cover that would maybe look cooler but woudn't really have anything to do with the game itself. We actually added the portal on the cover image later and we'll add that same portal in game as well in the next playtest updates.
The colors are also the main ones you'll find in the game, red for the bad guys (ADE minions, mercury crystals and such) and blue for our hero (guns, vfxs, freed dataworld cubes, etc.). The portal here should actually be red as Adam is going toward it to free it from ADE's control but for the image's sake it was better to have it in blue.
After countless revisions, this is it. This is the final (we hope cover image) for "Of Lies and Rain".
