Pax Dei: Art for a sprawling medieval sandbox RPG 

Pax Dei is an early-access MMORPG from Mainframe Industries, 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.  

The challenge 

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’s size, and maintain all elements of a large open world.  

The art we’ve contributed to this project was mostly 3D—environments, characters, and weapons—with some VFX, too. The 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.  

See the full case study on the Room 8 Group website.