A record from Bosana · Case study 01/02Worldbuilding · Character design · Comic · Game · Web

South Slavic soul. Rusted technology. Cosmic stubbornness.

A world in pencil, ink, panels and code, since 2016.

Bosana Archive · Volume IFiled somewhere between two breakdowns and one bad decision.

SubjectBosana Universe

Project
Bosana Universe
Since
2016
Author
Mile Mićić
Formats
Webcomic · 2D game · Artbook · Illustrated encyclopedia · Website
Role
Worldbuilding, Character design, Illustration, Comic, Game art, Web design & development
Built with
Photoshop, React, Vite, Supabase, Framer Motion
MistislavArchivist · No. BOS-2016-001
The Bosoni, lined up
Plate I · The Bosoni

A satirical Slavic retrofuturist world told through a webcomic, a 2D game, an artbook and an illustrated encyclopedia, with its own living map and website.

bosanasvijet.com
  • 15places on the living map
  • 5peoples, each with its own look
  • 4formats: comic, game, artbook, encyclopedia
  • 3languages and two scripts
01

The world

First map, 2016The living map, today
The first map of Bosana, a sketched islandToday’s map of Bosana: mountains, villages, rivers and the city of Mosabarkh

Fifteen places, each with its own story. Tap a pin.

02

The people

Character design
  1. The Bosoni, a line-up of characters

    BosoniForests, log cabins, and people who would rather fix a thing than admit they broke it.

  2. The Bosuni, a line-up of characters

    BosuniPeople of stone and karst. They laugh even when it isn’t funny, and they are as stubborn as a mountain.

  3. The Rohni, a line-up of characters

    RohniNewcomers from far away, for whom belonging fits like a suit cut for someone else.

  4. Pose sheet: one character in fifteen poses, from a crouch to a sword swing, with front and back views

    One character, many posesExpressions, action and a turnaround on a single sheet.

Become a citizen. The site asks every new visitor to pick a people and a face:

  • BosoniPeople of forests, log cabins and stubborn folk who would rather fix things than admit they broke them.
  • BosaniPeople of the plains, fertile land and long conversations that start with the weather and end with the meaning of life.
  • BosuniPeople of stone, karst and folk who laugh even when they don’t feel like it.
  • RohniNewcomers from far away.
  • MosabarkhThe Mosabarkhians are convinced they live at the centre of the world.
03

The comic

Gate of a Thousand Worlds
Comic cover painting beside grey and colour pages

Thumbnails, greys, then colour. On the site it reads as a webtoon on phones and page by page on desktop.

Comic page 1Comic page 2Comic page 3Comic page 4
04

The game

Gate of a Thousand Worlds · in development
Walk demo in the prototype: Vuk in the village.
Vuk, the game character, in four views: side, front, other side and back
Vuk in four views, ready to be cut into sprites.
Early game assets: log houses, a garden, a cart wheel and a pine, with a villager for scale, all in top-down view
Early assets: a village in top-down view, lit from one side.

● In development A 2D narrative adventure where nobody lies; everyone just grew up with a different truth. Steam page coming soon.

05

The site

Encyclopedia, reader, map, kafana
The admin panel: map, entities, peoples, orders, technology, bestiary, mythology, characters, comic and posts

A CMS built for a world

Južnoslovenska duša. Zarđala tehnologija. Kosmička tvrdoglavost.

Serbian in both scripts, English and Spanish. Try it.

Livebosanasvijet.comThe comic, the map, the encyclopedia and the tavern. Open to visit.
  • Worldbuilding
  • Character design
  • Webcomic
  • 2D game
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