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The game beyond the polygons

Painted worlds

Inferno gives its machines an elaborate setting: laboratories, alien architecture and a cast with a very particular sense of dress. These selected images retain their original colours and 320 by 200 pixel proportions.

An ominous laboratory with a craft suspended above a circular platform — The laboratory painting gives Inferno’s machinery a setting beyond the cockpit.

Figures standing in a cavernous orange-lit alien hall — A hall of oversized structures and sharply contrasting light. This painting also forms the site’s opening illustration.

A group of brightly dressed characters gathered together — The presentation’s cast and costume design has as much personality as the spacecraft.

A red and orange Navicom presentation screen — Navicom artwork introduces the tactical computer through a mixture of text and rendered machinery.

A purple and yellow schematic of an interior complex — The stored schematic for the rexxxx interior. Compare its forms with the interactive world and corridor views.

The original options screen with red orbital diagrams — Inferno’s menus carry the same red-and-black visual language as its cockpit.