How I Make Game Art.. even though I’m bad at it - Hexagod

Making art is hard and time consuming so I've started to my lack of skills as a design constraint. But, over the years I have gotten better and I wanted to share a bit about my process as a game dev who is bad at art.
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[@Aarimous]

What tips do you do when making art for your games? Checkout the demo for Hexagod: store.steampowered.com/app/3059390/Hexagod/

[@foldupgames]

I have taken to doing tiny pixel art characters that looks like I have a style OR I do work in Blender where I'm more comfortable. I will say I'm glad you reworked the art - it's important to give those screenshots a little something instead of "just play it! It'll be fun!"

[@michaelrobinson4266]

Art also helps the readability of cards, not just tiles. The cards could benefit from art to help make each one more recognizable and add some more flavor.. Also, I felt that your demo was very readable. I like your approach to expanding on tile placement mechanics, I found little interest in tile placement, so interactions between them could make the placement of tiles more of an actual decision. I think this game shares many similarities to Stacklands. Look at how their cards are represented for an example of what I am talking about (I know you referenced it in the video, but see how much flavor the little illustrations add to each card). Also, good job. The demo was fun.

[@Sunrymoon]

Oh nah,if this is/was bad art im cooked

[@Aarimous]

Hah, this was likely my imposter syndrome speaking, and I bet you are better at art than you think as well. Cheers!

[@moonstar_connor]

This is looking great! Solid use of color values to make the tiles, they're really readable

[@FullMoonGame]

New tiles look really good! You could have a look at Magic's land cards for references

[@weebleschneeble9368]

Is that workspace you're using for the different tiletypes called Notion? I see a thing called Notion Ai. I use a program called Dynalist that is bulleted lists seems pretty similar and wanted to see what your impression of Notion is!

[@JuicyBenji]

Great visual update

[@albinlarsson]

Speaking of art, what's that font you are using in the game?

[@MrKingJavo]

The cloud animation when you start a new game is neat! Would be cool to see how you did that? Thanks in advance!

[@godotgamelab]

The game is shaping up quite nicely! Not gonna lie I was hoping that you'd show how you did the clouds, those look amazing! ☁️☁️☁️

[@dmsys6516]

The tutorial god is here! Guys check out his slay the spire clone tutorial- pretty much the only tutorial on godot that makes a full game with lots of features along with production ready architecture and code. Hands down the best tutorial you could find on godot and its totally not an exaggeration

[@Aarimous]

I might make a video about the clouds some day, I will say I did the simplest way possible and did basically zero optimization. ;)

[@godotgamelab]

@@Aarimous simple solutions get games shipped, overengineering doesn't so that's definitely a win! 👌

[@dmsys6516]

I knew you would start making interesting mechanics but glad to see it now. There is soo much potential for making it deep and interesting while keeping it simple.

[@Aarimous]

100%, my goal is to add a notch or two more of strategic depth without turning the game into a grand strategy game like Civilization 6.

[@dueddel]

Wow. That's much more complex than I somehow thought all the time, Hexagod's pretty cool apparently. I have to add that I didn't play the demo since I am a Mac user and the demo is only for Win users (which I totally understand, that's by far no critique). By the way, is there any chance you'll be at the GodotCon this year in Berlin, Germany? Would be a pleasure to meet you in person. I love your content for a long time. Keep up! 😘👍 7:31 Red Blob Games is such a valuable bookmark! ♥ PS: I like the (new) art style!

[@Aarimous]

Hey there, I will not be at GodotCon this year. I live on Minnesota in the United States so it's a bit cost prohibitive currently. Cheers!

[@dueddel]

@@Aarimous Yeah, I anticipated that kind of answer already. 😉

[@erictrinque6513]

mountain and ocean with a sprinkle of brimstone = HellFire Lava Sacrificial Pit to the Great Old Ones

[@litlclutch]

really like the new art style, helps with the colour blind aspect as the shapes inside will be distinct and thus you don't have to rely on colour at all.