New art style

Up until this point, I hadn't really thought about how I wanted the game to look. I knew that I wanted the looks to fit the abstract nature of the game, but I didn't know what exactly that would look like. At first I thought about doing a similar art style to Stick It To The Man, but since I'm already basing my gameplay off of it and I'm not nearly artistic enough to do that style justice, I scrapped that idea. So I tried to think of something easier and my mind went to Parappa the Rapper. It's a simple 2D flat colour style and it looks really good in the Parappa games, but I think it's a little bit too vibrant for this game as it may make it harder to see brains or stickers. So eventually, I settled on this:


Based off of the Fancy Pants Adventures games, I decided to go with a simple stickman style as I think that it is quite abstract, especially with the blank background, it's easy even for someone like me who has as much artistic ability as a 4 year old and it can also give characters a lot of personality. You may be wondering about the billboard, but I'll explain that in the next post!

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