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Submitted my owl game! Made the year end deadline. Now just gotta wait for the page to be approved.

Sounds fun. I think I'll make one. I've got an idea for a game with lots of owls.

I actually never figured out what maker score is for...

Thanks for the feedback!

I didn't draw her. The drawing was done by the Piplay team a few years ago. I am not sure if they're in the community anymore. Anyway, I think they did a good job according to the direction I gave at the time, which basically amounted to "Draw a Samus-like character with red hair wearing a DBZ scouter." :p

She got dug up again when we started our metroidvania recently. She started out as a generic Samus clone, but we've changed her specs quite a bit.

For those interested, here's her background now:

Athena is a spunky college freshman majoring in computer science who got thrown into a futuristic parallel world one day as a reluctant savior (She totally doesn't want to be there). In that world, she can "code" objects into reality with a virtual keyboard and a refillable canister of nanomachines. Objects include weapons, tools for puzzles (like a trampoline), or even robot drone helpers that fight along side her. And maybe she can hack the stuff in the environment...dunno if that's too complicated.

Anyway, the details are still fuzzy at this point. We're thinking it would be like "instantly crafting" the right tools you need during combat. In a metroidvania sci-fi setting.

One thought I had was changing her color scheme to white, gold, and red (which are ancient Greece colors for the gods) instead of the more traditional sci-fi gray blue she has now. Not sure if that's a good idea.

Some businesses are greedy. But sometimes they're not really, but simply being practical. Let's think of this from a game dev's perspective.

Say you can need to hire an artist to draw pictures for your game, and you found two, an American and an Indian . After looking at both, you know the American artist draws better, but maybe not incredibly better than the Indian artist. However, the Indian artist costs a tenth of what the American charges. Who do you hire? Especially if you need lots of pictures drawn with a limited budget?

Well, one solution would be you hire the American artist to draw the few critical pieces that need to be great, and have the Indian artist do the rest. This is very similar to how American companies outsource most of customer service, but perhaps keep a few American reps to handle difficult/high profile cases.

To clarify, "American" and "Indian" are purely for example purposes here. I am NOT saying Americans draw better than Indians.

Let's remember there's also the "Change the path once you die" mechanic employed in games such as Dead Cells or Stanley Parable. If you haven't played those, basically, you die/end game a lot in these games. Once you restart however, the entire map changes.

While Dead Cells is more rogue-like, I like how in Stanley Parable, the game changes permanently depending on what you did before.

Perhaps in your game you can change the path entirely on each run through?