Character Concepts: The Kid - The Minister of the Environment and Chemical Weapons
/Here's the next batch of Eric Kim's character sketches for the game. As before: rough drafts, probably will be changes, no names yet and not giving too much info to avoid spoilers. If you haven't seen the previous art I posted... click here... and here.
The Kid
A street kid that the Guerrilla Gardener's adopt. The version on the right is how he looks when they find him, on the left how he looks after Molly gives him a haircut and some hand-me-downs. His personal transformation nicely mirrors the in game transformation of citizens from depression to super happy citizens. I want to find a way to keep that little sticky up hair when he gets his mohawk in the final version. It's a nice identifying mark and will help link the two designs.
The Minister of the Environment & Chemical Weapons
General Bauhous has deligated various duities to his Ministers. Each of them have slightly weird contradictory titles. This particular minister is a grizzled vet with an obsession for spicy foods and tear gas (that's a hot pepper in his mouth not a cigarette).
These would have been up earlier if I hadn't been at the best indie games festival ever (aka IndieCade' 09) in Culver City over the weekend. Twenty nine fantastic games were playable with a real emphasis on diversity along with a bunch of interesting and entertaining talks, but the real star of the conference was the laid back atmosphere. I easily made more friends at this one event then I have from attending the last three years of the GDC. If you're an indie developer or working on becoming one I cannot recommend attending the next IndieCade enough. Adam over at Attract Mode has a nice little write up that sums it up with a photo of a bunch of us and Keita 'Katamari' Takahashi at the after party playing Tuning.