Designing a Fantasy Video Game Shop

[@lilysillustration]

He found a fancy top hat and decided to start up a shop🎩🍬

[@pandoratheclay]

As we all know, a fancy top hat is essentially a shop licence

[@nirinaanjara5135]

My mom always told me to not trust strangers

[@ItsWaterDaymyDudes]

I mean, that's a good reason, fancy hat fancy mate

[@lilysillustration]

@@pandoratheclay absolutely 🎩✨

[@Kassabonn]

Your channel is such an inspiration to me when it comes to worldbuilding and character- and prop design. I also absolutely love the way you colour everything, its so pleasing to look at

[@lilysillustration]

Thanks so much!✨

[@pandoratheclay]

Since this bird person travels, I’d like to imagine that what is currently occupied by a “Coming Soon” sign will eventually be a display for mystical knickknacks, something there is only one of in stock at any moment therefore with a steep price, but also not an item stocked every time due to the considerable effort to obtain even one And that it’s “coming soon” because this person has yet to discover anything or has difficulty obtaining one

[@pandoratheclay]

Almost definitely jewellery though (crows, shiny things)

[@123Strikerstar123]

its so cool how just this little snippets of something in a potential game gives enough vibes that one can envision in what mind of rogue like it would belong I really love your Videos and your style, they're such an inspiration!

[@locochavo4560]

Lovely looking shop items! Love the mystery boxes!

[@lilysillustration]

Thank you!🍬✨

[@miguelbugarinpeixoto7251]

With the phrase "there's not a lot of money in the woods" i imagine a mechanic where you can actually buy special objects with something... different, like parts of your body, wich will give you pretty useful especial objects, but you are now handicaped for the rest of run

[@nirinaanjara5135]

Dame it, this no monster, this is an American snake oil salesman

[@lilysillustration]

He’s got to make that money 💰💵✨

[@craz2580]

I LOVE this idea!!!! Gives off kind Rusty Lake vibes plus i love random shop owners with weird quirks! Sounds like a character i would love to play in dnd lol

[@lilysillustration]

Thanks!🍬✨

[@jennianis1811]

Wow this is so pretty. I love the way you draw the Potions. So nice. Also I love this birdman. He seems nice :)

[@lilysillustration]

He’s very polite🎩✨

[@jurtheorc8117]

Fantasy merchants... my mind immediately jumps to characters like Ostegoth and Vulgrim (Darksiders 2) & Manny Dex from Lost in Random. Manny has four legs and lives inside a closet. But his legs, his LONG arms and his top hat stick out. Dude just opens up the closet doors with his arms and reveals many, many, many cards for sale inside Vulgrim is simply fantastic. Love some details he carries, like a little magic sphere in a net on his belt, as well as a parchment, likely a certificate of quality. And Ostegoth is a goat man who wears a crystal hourglass in his hair, hanging on the back. I find him cosy. They're delightful merchant characters.

[@lilysillustration]

Those sound like cool designs, I’ll need to check them out!🙌✨

[@jurtheorc8117]

@@lilysillustration I'm glad they got your interest! Be sure to also look up Vulgrim's theme from Darksiders 1. So many parts of his presentation come together so well. Appearance, voice, writing, animation and aforementioned theme. Ostegoth is a warmer, less menacing presence. He's not nearly talked about as much in the Darksiders circles but i enjoy him. Oh, and there's two others that may be interesting. Perhaps more for personality and presence than outright "Merchant" design: - Archibald from Magenta Horizon: Neverending Harvest. A Scottish biologist from around early 1800 who kept up his research in the afterlife. He's more researcher than merchant, but still plays the part of the latter. Archibald makes new tools for the protagonist all throughout the journey, like repurposing material resembling the web strings of spiders into a bola. Some of his research led to him testing things on himself, so now he's got a number of mushroom growths on his body. - Layton from Soulstice. He's actually a sassy monk and on-field overseer, dressed fairly simply in a hooded robe and smiling mask, but functions as the merchant character. Like Archibald he takes action on his own to help the protagonists, sneaking through monster-infested streets to look for safehouses and weapon caches that his Order stashed around. A friend of mine, AcriusOakeshott, described him as "You can't rely on him in a fight, but you CAN rely on him."

[@craz2580]

I swear i would totally buy a game designed by you! I think this also kinda gives a vibe of a rogue like (with terms as runs) something like inscryption tbh. I would love to see if you would ever think of something else

[@lilysillustration]

Thanks! I was inspired a lot by rogue like video games such as Hades. I really want to try and look into a few different games in future🙌✨

[@Renkencen]

This Merchant and the items for sales could be uses for DND if some GM can make an ability sheet for the items? Like for the mystery box, roll a D20 and each numbers will have a selective items result?

[@SebastienGendron-uk4po]

This creature gives ''American snake oil salesman'' vibes which reminds me of Grunkle Stan from Gravity Falls show. He has the charisma, he has the suit, he has the twisted sense of humor scamming his customers, and the shady items. The mystery boxes are something Stan has done before, like ''the sac of mystery'' (put your money in and it ''mysteriously disappears''). The real difference between this salesman and Grunkle stan is that stans items are fake, arts and craft custom made rip offs with bogus stories while the crow salesman items are magical but with a dice roll risk of backfiring on the customers if they don't choose correctly.

[@lilysillustration]

Haha yeah I was going for that vibe for the character🙌✨

[@m00nhwz]

I love everything about the Peach Pond Cordial. The colour, the design, the everything. This world is really interesting and I love the idea of the different runs. Would the shopkeeper ever be interested in buying items? Overall, I would love to visit these mysterious woods again

[@lilysillustration]

Thank you! I could imagine he would trade/ buy items from you if you found something interesting in the woods✨💰

[@m00nhwz]

@@lilysillustration Could you hypothetically buy items that were sold by other people who were in the woods before you? Kind of inherited from person to person, making its way back to the shopkeeper

[@thatonegrizzly]

Saving this!

[@lilysillustration]

🙌✨✨

[@Fidget-Finch2]

I will take the lot!

[@oogabooga_1]

The birbadook

[@lilysillustration]

Omg you’re right he’s got the top hat 🎩🐦

[@N1kodelic]

Oh no! A refined gentleman selling me questionable products? I'm afraid I have fallen in love, I shall now buy multiple mystery boxes so to make him happy

[@lilysillustration]

He greatly appreciates your purchases ✨🍬

[@oogabooga_1]

I fear the potion vials would entice be to drink them all at once, like a child with legos lol

[@lilysillustration]

They are very refreshing!🥤✨

[@gragraboomicespice]

From the thumbnail, ill assume its a corvid bcz they collect shiny things!

[@Bolloneyl_9]

😊

[@genericuser984]

He's a friend :)

[@lilysillustration]

🍬Indeed✨

[@IsaiahNowell]

👏

[@Definitely_not_Jun]

Video game potential?

[@k-kevi...]

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