The game is 2D, but the buildings start in 3D. Each one is modelled once in Blender and then rendered from a fixed camera, in the four rotations a player can place it in.
Then it is done three times, because there are three peoples and they do not build alike: Valan in timber, Corvus in dark stone, Murth in adobe. The kit for the villages alone holds more than six hundred rendered pieces.
Rendering from a model instead of drawing each view keeps every piece under the same light and on the same grid. That matters in a game where you rotate a barn to squeeze it between two houses and it has to look right all four ways.
It also means that when a piece needs a new state, like a wall that has been breached, we render it for every people at once.
Age of Medieval is developed by UnderStudio in UnderStudio 2D and published by Brasa Interactive. It releases on 17 May 2027.
Age of Medieval on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3259670/
Official site: https://ageofmedieval.com/
