Cursed Cozy Village

// Series overview

Cursed Cozy Village lives in a niche the Asset Store barely has: „cozy gothic" - a dark fairytale that still feels warm. Instead of photorealism and PBR - hand-painted textures and a toon shader. The free base is the hook; the paid packs add what a model pack alone never gives you: systems that run at runtime.

Every pack adds a technical layer, not just meshes. Alley brings wind, cloth and signs driven by a single manager. Alchemist's Corner brings a liquid shader that knows which way the bottle was tipped. All of it sits on one lighting backbone, so the packs mix without three different shading styles showing up in the same shot.

// Packs in the series

01

Free Unity Asset Store

Free Pack

The modular base of the series - cobblestone, building fronts, fences, lamps and loose props. Hand-painted, toon shader, wall and glass shaders. A complete, usable slice of a town.

Case study → Unity Store ↗

02

Unity Asset Store Fab Runtime systems

Shop Alley

Shopfronts and market stalls - plus three runtime systems: banner and cloth variants on one shared material, configurable decal signs, and swing physics driven by a global wind manager.

Case study → Documentation

03

Unity Asset Store Fab Liquid shader

Alchemist's Corner

An alchemist's workshop and a transform-driven liquid shader: the surface stays level when the bottle is tilted, sloshes when it's yanked, and settles seconds later. One material, infinite potions.

Case study → Documentation

// Shared technical backbone

Three packs, one lighting model and one material convention. That isn't cosmetic - it's what lets a customer drop Alchemist potions onto an Alley counter, stand it on Free Pack cobblestone, and not see three different shading styles in one frame.

• Toon lighting - half-Lambert stepped main light, tinted shadow, soft additional lights. A shared HLSL include in every pack.
• Hand-written HLSL - no Shader Graph, SRP Batcher compatible, no GrabPass. Safe for VR and mobile.
• MaterialPropertyBlock over instances - per-object variation (cloth colour, potion, wear) without multiplying materials in the project.
• Every pack exports standalone - shared includes are copied in rather than referenced, so no pack depends on the others.
• Editor tooling - each pack ships a starter-prefab generator and a batch randomizer, so the first result is on screen in seconds.

// My role

• Art direction - defining the „cozy gothic" niche and the style (hand-painted + toon) as a market differentiator.
• Modeling and texturing - the entire modular set and props across all three packs, hand-painted, optimized.
• Shaders - toon, walls, glass, cloth, sign decal, liquid with fill and slosh, bubbling cauldron.
• Systems and tooling - global wind, sign swing physics, MaterialPropertyBlock variation, slosh simulator, editor windows.
• Release - demo scenes, documentation, store art, publishing on the Unity Asset Store and Fab.

// Tech Stack