Tileset Preview!

      Good morning everyone! Today I have put together a preview of a first pass tile set for the autumn themed zone. This will be the zone the game might start in and is one of the zones I am most excited for. Not enough games go for a white birch/autumn aesthetic, which I feel is a missed opportunity as it can be a very lovely look to a zone and it could be used for deeper meanings. Autumn is the time when the leaves start to fall from the trees and everything begins to go through the death process, its the end of a cycle for a lot of plant life and can be very symbolic for you playing as the reaper and beginning your journey in this game. Is that why I chose the look though? Absolutely not! I just like the way it looks as opposed to a pine forest or something similar.

      My other option that I was thinking about was going with a more Japanese spring type feel with blooming Sakura trees and the such. After a bit of thought I decided that it did not fit the theme of the game and scrapped the idea, even though I felt it could have been a beautiful design choice. I want this game to be more western based since I myself am western, I don't want to fill my game with stereotype culture even if it could have looked nice. My lack of knowledge on how everything would look and even folklore for enemies would probably result in a subpar experience that I would not enjoy myself. So after going through the thought process a bit I decided on the beauty of a more western choice.

      As always, this is pre-alpha design and everything is VERY likely to change. The resolution of this demonstration is not even what the actual room sizes will be. This is just a showing of what my current mindset is on the matter. The image in question does not even have any backgrounds yet and the physical blocks are still a little blocky. If you look at the background tiles you will notice that the sloped background tiles are just rotated and not even shaded properly, rocks casting shadow/showing light in the wrong way. So take what is shown here with a grain of salt since it very well could change very quickly.

      Anyway, I just wanted to post an update showing what I had in mind for graphic design aesthetics. Feel free to let me know what you think in the comments :)