The main menu had several criteria:

• Look cool, obviously
• Highlight the Immortals (player avatars/ heroes)
• Highlight the titular Gate of Pyre as an enormous piece of architecture and importance
• Serve as a lobby for your party
• Sell the scale of the world
• Work for both 16:9 and 21:9

A secondary goal was to allow for future expansion as a hub space for collectibles and as a bigger ‘in world’ menu experience, for which the background would remain as just one part of it, but the foreground would be something entirely different, with a more dynamic ‘on rails’ camera.

The terrain was created using Gaea 2

The distant city was a simple Unreal PCG scatter, with some landmarks placed by hand

Tileable environmental textures were done in Substance Designer

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Acknowledgements:

• Lui Francisco – art direction
• Javier Romo – additional art direction
• Tobias Frey – 3d art for the distant buildings
• Justus Sluijter – 3d architectural modeling for foreground elements
• Matthieu Teste – 3d art for the platform in the foreground