{"id":119052,"date":"2020-10-08T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/371552"},"modified":"2020-10-08T13:25:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T13:25:00","slug":"early-among-us-character-concepts-depict-the-birth-of-the-bean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/08\/early-among-us-character-concepts-depict-the-birth-of-the-bean\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Among Us character concepts depict the birth of the bean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Innersloth co-founder Marchs Bromander (a.k.a. Puffballs United) has shared an early look at the character designs for <em>Among Us<\/em>, and it looks like the studio hit a home run on the very first attempt.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PuffballsUnited\/status\/1313641137823903744\">Posting the artwork on Twitter<\/a>, Bromander explained the six sketches are &#8220;literally the only concept art of coming up with the crewmate design,&#8221; noting that the team &#8220;settled pretty fast.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The plucky cremates of <em>Among Us<\/em> have become almost as popular at the game itself, spawning a number of memes due to their cute demeanor and propensity for murder.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A quick glance at the artwork shows that Innersloth flirted with some more left field designs &#8212; including a star-shaped crewmate &#8212; but ultimately&nbsp;landed on the beany aesthetic fairly quickly.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The newfound&nbsp;success of <em>Among Us<\/em>, which boasted 1.5 million concurrent players at the start of September, has led to Innersloth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/370739\/Innersloth_cancels_Among_Us_2_because_the_first_game_has_become_so_popular.php\">canceling its planned sequel<\/a> to focus on expanding and supporting the original title.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/early-among-us-character-concepts-depict-the-birth-of-the-bean.png\" width=\"646\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Innersloth co-founder Marchs Bromander (a.k.a. Puffballs United) has shared an early look at the character designs for Among Us, and it looks like the studio hit a home run on the very first attempt.&nbsp; Posting the artwork on Twitter, Bromander explained the six sketches are &#8220;literally the only concept art of coming up with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}