Save the Forest

Ended up with this corrupted variant after some feedback!
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Thank you!
Got similar feedback on reddit and yeah, I love the idea:

Looking for some honest opinions!
I'm making corrupted versions of the enemies (with a purple-ish theme for corruption) and I*m wondering if something like this looks mostly lazy or kinda... cool? Let me know what you think, and how you would improve it!

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I'm biased
but I really like the feel of this lil squirrel jump

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haha I didn't know about this game but I totally see it! it's actually referencing the luck animation from heroes of might & magic 2

Another one of my favourite effects! Can you spot the reference?

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For this #screenshotsaturday I give you my new gameplay trailer!

Wishlist Save the Forest here:
store.steampowered.com/app/3832200/...

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Save the Forest on Steam Save the Forest is a tactics roguelite where you recruit, upgrade and fight your way through focused, highly varied runs. Choose and combine from over 25 units and 100+ skills to defeat the evil sprea...

🌲🌲🌲 Save the Forest Steam page is now live! 🌲🌲🌲
Please have a look at the brand new gameplay trailer, wishlist, and critique my horrible copywriting - in that order!

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I now have a new button to press

4 Bear units on top with a 1900's look and 4 units on the bottom with a more viking-y feel

Finished the Bear faction's time travel makeover/polish - now I'll finally get cracking on the gameplay trailer for the steam page 😅
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Thank you!

Animation sequence for a viking bear warrior with a spear

Ended up using two different expressions for the bear, here's the full look 🐻

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Thanks, I'm leaning towards that one too now 😁

A buncha pixel art bear heads

One thing that always trips me up about pixel art of this scale is how really small changes to the eye/brow pixels gives such different expressions - I genuinely cannot decide what this bear should feel and I can't finish it until I do
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Thanks! Yeah I think you're right, but I'm also considering a time travel level now where your party goes into a portal to 30's Chicago 😅

Making some levels that mix factions and it bothered me that the 30's gangster bears looked so very out of place among the other factions, so they're getting a time travel makeover!

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This is the strawberry attack in motion 🍓
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This skill is quickly becoming my favourite
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Thank you! Working on getting the page fully set up 😁

that's true! I did skew them a bit here to fit them nicer into the format - to be more exact I want to communicate that the game visuals are orthographically projected (as opposed to a top-down grid)

Yeah thats a good idea! I kinda tried to do that with the chessboard shading thing but I think its not super clear...I'll experiment. As for the projection I also want it to communicate the isometric viewpoint since I myself love it when games have this

Thank you!

a pixel art image depicting am isometric battle scene and an ominous ghastly circus director in the back

This is what I've got so far... needs polish probably but I'll start from here in terms of capsule - let me know what you think! Would you click/wishlist?

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Love the hat

That's a fair point, thanks! maybe the evil hat guy is more in the background and the isometric grid takes up more space? Ideally I think I'd like to show clearly that it's a tactics game even in the art

😂 move fast and sketch things

Trying to come up with a steam capsule design is hard! I am leaning towards this kind of layout, do you think it'll work well?

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Guys I couldn't choose so they both get to stay...

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Yeah it's meant to be a bit more rotund and maybe a little less excited for a fight 😂

gave it some more outline and cleaned it up a little