Compass
Explore long lost skies in Compass, an open-world piloting adventure about finding your way through uncharted clouds. Maneuver your ship through hazardous floating landscapes, complete challenges with your grapples, upgrade your vessel, and lead the Caravan forward.
Compass is an open-world VR flying adventure set among otherworldly skies.
CLIENT: TREBUCHET
PLATFORMS: PC, METAQUEST & PLAYSTATION VR
GENRE: FLYING, ADVENTURE, OPEN-WORLD, COZY
TECH: UNREAL ENGINE 5
Dead Nice founders Agnes, Sam, and Jasmine partnered with Trebuchet Games to create another bespoke game logo, this time for their VR title, Compass
Process
The Compass identity began with an exploration of the game’s core themes: discovery, audiovisual, magnetism and analog technologies. The brief was to create a logo that gives the feeling of exploration while avoiding familiar fantasy or sci-fi conventions.
Visually, the wordmark balances minimalist sci-fi typography with softer, more tactile details. The custom “C” draws from the form of a tuning fork, connecting the logo to ideas of sound and improvised technology, with the sound wave motif appearing to emanate from the fork.
Subtle asymmetry across the letterforms, particularly between “Com” and “pass”, gives the logo an unusual wave-like quality. The final delivery included both clean and lightly textured variants, using soft gradients, shadows and edge roughness to create a distinctive identity rooted in the Ghibli-esque adventure world with solarpunk aesthetics.
Mood boards
Mood boards
Initial Explorations
Final Logo
