ITT: Draw your own indie protagonist

Guys! A platformer base around a semi-serious story where the protag has, wait for it... Snake Arms! I'm a genius!

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Thank you user, very cool!

1million copies sold

would fuck

5/10 if girl spider, 9/10 if boy spider

perfect in every way

FUCKING WHITE MALE REE

onto something

would play

>one is a spirit
>one is a skeleton
>one is a cleaning device
Give me a single reason why those three shouldn't look that way. And I don't know what the fuck a baba is but it's probably supposed to look simple too.

Are the two in the middle not from the same game? I always assumed they were

holy crap is that a motherfucking undertale reference???

>Use pic related for inspiration

No thanks, here a completely different (but still shitty) one instead

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I can't draw fucking hands bruh so I put some incantations on them to be spells that make his hand bigger.

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Oh no what is that user's creation owo?
Hurry! Swat it away! Oh no! He is wearing Air pods! He can't hear us! OwO.

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2

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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I love your drawings

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not enough scythes, give him more

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Baba's design is pretty arbitrary. There's no real plot or developed setting in the game.

>arms can extend and be used as whips
>Arms bite
Souns unironically fun and has a cute design for a character:Someone make a thread letting us make this real.

>Doesn't include sans

Jesus Christ how many

off-topic but what do you guys think of my actual indie protagonist? I started working on a game in 2016 and scrapped it after half a year because it looked like shit and I lost all interest, but I'm back on the rpgmaker grind now and going totally minimalist so I don't have to worry about being dick at art and can focus on the story also delicious brown girl

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based

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im not really into human protagonists so meh, looks cool tho

>also delicious brown girl
Post her

here's everything I scrapped-- think there's a few nice sprites in there that I might rework though

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Irony as a preemptive defensive mechanism has killed the creative spirit. You're all too scared to put yourselves out there. New sincerity is where it's at.

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Mingo, carrying baby bingo through a desolate landscape.
It's bold and brave -IGN
The best one
Second best
Third best

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talksprite in progress :)

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I love this all,dont scrap it

You've definitely improved in the last three years, and you put in just enough detail for the minimalism to look good. Something like Yuppie Psycho's character sprites (not the character portraits) are just too simplistic and in a way that isn't very appealing.

I see you like LISA

Cool characters. Here's mine.

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Someone's a fan of Lisa. Not a bad game to take inspiration from though, if that really is the case.

the sure sign of failure is making sprites for a game that isn't done, especially an RPG. If your passion is to draw then just draw. Making the game is the hard part

I see you're a fan of Lisa.
Well, everyone starts somewhere. But work a little harder at finding your own style, if you can. The sprites don't look like anything special. Can't really say there's anything to remark on, because I don't really know what you're going for. I guess draw gooder?

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The whole 2019 design concept is weak, and your artstyle isn't interesting enough to support it. The character looks a slightly hipsterish generic dude. Nobody's going to look at that and think "I want to be that guy" or "I'm really interested in that guys struggles". Main characters in RPGs are often pretty grounded but you still have to make them identifiable in some way. The 2016 protagonist is unironically better because the expression at least stands out and says something about the character, even if that something is "depressed stoner".

You might be thinking that you have to make your character design boring because realism is boring and your game takes place in the real world, but that shouldn't be the case. Look at the Mother or Persona games. Ness is a fairly grounded design but he's still immediately recognizable from his shirt, baseball cap, and bat, and the mainline Persona protagonists are all completely distinct despite all being Japanese teenage boys who wear school uniforms. Focus on what makes your character recognizable and appealing.

>danny devito
kek

Wait a minute. That thing is supposed to be a brown girl? She sure as hell doesn't look brown. And she sure as hell doesn't look like a "she" either. Well, the talking portrait looks more convincing. But the small sprite looks like a dishevelled dude.

>Moon Man
Nice.

Edmund original right here

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Ok user since this thread began I've been posting meme cave paintings but I tried to make a simple robot concept, I'm ready for people to shit on me

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I didn't expect this much feedback, thank you.

It is pretty obvious, yeah-- but I'm moving away from that aesthetic now kinda

While I agree in principle, rpgmaker is dick easy for anyone, I had a pretty good amount done on my scrapped project with those old sprites. I've hardly done anything with this new idea, but since I'm a writefag I'm working with a game-design friend to actually do the heavy lifting.

noted. I have been agonizing over shades of brown trying to find the right one to just scream "ambiguously foreign". Ironically, depressed stoner is still here in some capacity, I just swapped him as protagonist because I wanted to stop self-inserting.

I'm still working on finding an actual "style", but I'm pretty attached to my mspaint "90's point and click educational children's game" portraits.

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I like this guy

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Depressed Stoner is the clear winner between the two. Just give him a more distinct shirt or hat and the design is fine for a main character.

>I have been agonizing over shades of brown trying to find the right one to just scream "ambiguously foreign".
Perhaps you need to adjust your monitor. Because the shade you used as shadow on the brown girl's skin, is barely different than the light of her skin. Also, the blacks are washed out. I'm only guess here, but perhaps you need a color correction, before you pick colors.

She's pretty ambiguous though. Could be Filipino, could be Persian. I can kind of see that she's relatively more brown to your stoner character. Although his skin looks washed out too.

Fancy Pants Adventure reboot coming soon

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This is why the protag of any indie game I ever make is gonna be shamelessly furry

based

sheit, probably right

I think I'm going to fix brown girl design-wise instead of throwing her out. She does have a definite character that I see isn't really coming across in her ambiguous looks. They're actually both depressed stoners, blondie is just >ironically depressed

I have a lot to work on design-wise. Art isn't really my thing, but I'm trying to put out something half-way decent looking. thanks for the advice

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Godspeed, man.
Some of the designs shown in your cut sprite sheet (the ones near this funky guy and with similar masks. Oh and the fact the character on the bottom seems to have his face gradually torn off, with another character having face on and face off sprites) point to something deeper going on in this little world you're building, and I'm looking forward to seeing how that develops.

cube

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Skelly man looking for the one who summoned him

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The Dreaded Cone

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How big is his dick

Average

Fair enough. Cool design though. Does his design change throughout the game or are these the body types he can use to "copy" the appearances of other characters if his name is to be interpreted in that way
And could he copy their dick sizes

Joking around aside, I do really like the design of the character. The color pallet is nice, and, to be honest, I'm a sucker for star-like eyes. Good luck on whatever you use this for

Really digging that muscular lanklet with the mask. Does he become a party member or something later, judging from the one with a shirt?

She's not Baba. She's my original character, Blabla.

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would

Unfortunately not, but the mustachio'd boxer above him does.
The whole thing revolved around demon-entities wearing these white masks, so in a sequence of fights at a wrestling arena you fight mustachio-boxer, flamboyant karate men, your teacher in a fursuit, and then mask lanklet as a boss, with the fake-out that he was never a demon, just a mentally-handicap man

I think there's a definite decision between what "copy" really means within the context of Copyman
Create a yellow, black and white swap duplicate of something like an item or a power.
Or physically transforming into an imperfect pallette swap of a character that has the exact same facial features as regular copyman, that being the grin and weird star eyes
Drew alot of inspiration from Plastic Man and Ben 10

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Best one ITT

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>Thursday

Slugcat is from Rain World. The Knight is from Hollow Knight.

>voiced by rich evans

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If anyone is up to it, wanna try drawing
Dabbing on the thicc thots?

here's my original character

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>going from fat to inflation
Its shit.

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is my character indie enough?

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Give her stereotypical asian slant eyes and then you'll be indie enough.

his name is tony

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>her

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If that's the case, give him SERIOUS EYES and SERIOUS EYBROWS

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now it's indie enough

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oh no
you turned her into an undertale character

warewarewa

It's a WIP of course, but they will soon turn into a billion dollar franchise.

Trust me, it's all calculated.

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Looks a bit more like a Undertale enemy but she's a frog who has floating eye claws

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thanks doc

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xD
Sinister. Would definitely play.
Cute :3
intriguing, get hotline miami/LISA vibes. would play based on this character design alone
Simple, but not bad
Could be a fun gimmick
Desire to know more
Follow your heart
Fucked up Yoshi's Island, would play
Fucking based
Play 140, it's on steam
How did his skull get cracked?
Cute, post your twitter
Decidedly interesting

Keep it up guys, you're all doing great!

His name is Grub
He explores the ocean

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Why does he explore the ocean?

He doesn't like it up on land. He doesn't like the ocean either but he likes it more than the land. He's looking for a third thing he hopefully likes better.

Here have my ibis paint

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bump because I'm still drawing mine

A plucky warrior with cool mysterious powers who saved the world a couple of times. His last adventure was a clusterfuck, but he hopes the next one undoes that.

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nice

Took me a while to get it, nice

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bump

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She's thick.

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God indie devs are pathetic

Don't hurt my feelings like that. You know damn well nobody here actually knows who Vibri is anad will just assume that's an original design.

You're underestimating her popularity. I see her being mentioned from time to time here.

my oc

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died on his 30th birthday, came back as a skeleton wizard (because he was also a virgin)

now all the witches and succubi are trying to steal his magic powers

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Leave my planet alone you monster

CUBE!!!!

Cute? More like gut

Noice

Aww shit, it's the sparkly hat boy

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Nice

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Oof

What is baba

is you

Some of the frames are so messy they come off as creepy before you understand what you're looking at.

Baba is (you)

snibbedy snab :-DDDD

Shit i'm late

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Small

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can I touch him...?

sure

What the fuck is he even supposed to be?

I was trying to make smoke but it looks like fucked up hair

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Here you go. For future reference, just google perlin noise.

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I like it a lot

TOUCH FUZZY
GET DIZZY

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>perlin noise
This is actually very helpful for a project I'm working on with some friends. Thanks

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You might also want to look at other noise types.

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The amazing adventures of sprats the farmer and his pet bird, demeotheokolikoss.

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One of these days, brother. I haven't forgotten either.

All Friends are female, you should know this already.

bump

i will make porn of the cutest OC indie protag later tonight

ya'll like sheep?

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i recognize this artstyle you dumb furry

I think I'm starting to realize that Baba was intentionally made designed to rip on the common theme of indie protagonists.

Yikes

oc donut steel under any circumstances

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qt

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>be indie game devs
>left learning
>make white character
What did they mean by this
Also here nuko since i suck at drawing

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HK wishes it was half the game RW is.

thoughts?

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based and diversepilled

Baba lives matter

I name him cunnyleaf

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small H shaped protaganist with a strange blade

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Here's mine

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BABA did NOTHING

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Cursed

FUCK N-WORDS

please donate to my patreon

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the thumbs up made me think of this, I couldn't tell he was giving a thumbs up with the black background

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fun fact: Matt hated hollow knight

>hated
He was lukewarm but yeah he didn't like it.

:DDDD

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I made a friendly ghost

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oc donuntsteal

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Looks like the face of a demon with ears/horns and two hands. I like it a lot.

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>2016
soul
>2019
soulless

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why do indie rps always have to be "mature" earthbound rip offs?

WE

Wanted to do something alil different

Name him for me.

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>implying I can draw

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Baba has seen some shit

What the fuck happened here? All I did was a make a 2x2 image in MS paint, with the top 2 pixels being black and the bottom white. What does that mean? Can I take this supposed embedded file out?

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Rate my qt indie protag Yea Forums

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bad boi

Eh

Imagine the porn.

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im only replying to save earth

Feargus

d-demo?

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Anyone know the answer to this? I'm really curious.

her name is bleppy she uses her blepper to solve videogame problems

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You got a virus infecting your files.

Maybe.

the data probably matched with a file signature or something and it thinks it has a file inside the image

all babbies

this is what a tru indie platformer protag should look like

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slutty luxio

I think it's got something to do with it being 2x2 pixels.

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LEAVE MY PLANET ALOOOOOOOONE!

then the guy who made the thing to check the images fucked it up with the error messages

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Ed... ward...

BABA is NIGGER

would do a sex with

you guys are fucking unforgiving lmao

Based

> A3MT Never Ever

ngl, I've probably fapped to around half the character designs in this thread.

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I-I don't know.

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drumpf

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Baba's a nigger..

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AYYOOOO SLUGKITTEH WE WUZ PIPE CLEANERS N' SHIT

My actual protag, a human trapped inside a robotic chassis he can replace any limb with anything he finds, hence the 4 are replaceable.

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HOL UP

youtu.be/bhLV3k6kcUk?t=15

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Robotman?

VERY progressive

PORN

WHEN

List the top five OCs in this thread you would fug.

The fuggable ones, of course

Ive been thinking, If I had lots of money or was a indie game dev, I would make a bunch of gimmicky rts games using the animal kingdom for inspiration.
Crab commander™ - A strategy game featuring most if not all species of crustaceans who have organised into several "vast" empires across deep sea, shallow waters, and sparse land. Different species would have different uses, and crabs would use medieval technology and armor, within the limits of their physical ability.
Either a total war clone or something like mount and blade or cossaks
giant alaskan crabs would be towering behemoths, armies could be foiled by outside forces such as fishermen and octopi, some can be defeated and others are treated lile acts of nature. research allows the different classes of crustaceans to be fitted with new gear.
The maps contain resource rich areas that act as settlements, but zones cater to the unique needs of different species in your empire. For example an algae rich settlement can produce some smaller crabs, but is best used to recruit cannon fodder units like prawn and crayfish.
Multiplayer, single player situations, and maybe a silly single player campaign.

How stupid is this idea? Excuse my blogpost.

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>I would make a bunch of gimmicky rts games using the animal kingdom for inspiration
Just make Impossible Creatures 2 mate.

I've built upon years of indie character design and perfected the formula.

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Baba is a cutie though.
Don't bully.

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>And I don't know what the fuck a baba is
baba is (you)

Stop projecting yourself into the character or you'll always think it's shit after a few years.
Also it's cringe as fuck, stop making games or whatever you do, you're pathetic.

>Just make Impossible Creatures 2 mate.
Nah, I wasent talking about mismatching animals, more like animals organising into factions amd acting like humans waging war with eachother.

grazie doctore.

These

>Stop projecting yourself into the character or you'll always think it's shit after a few years.
hey some actual good advice from Yea Forums for once

Damn, I like her hourglass figure bro
Mind if I take those panties off the floor?

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postin

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THE FUN CANNOT BE HALTED

here's an idea: Box Mail

You are a box delivering mail. Then you have to deliver a Dragon's Finger to a blacksmith in a far away land so he can craft a legendary sword for the upcoming hero of the land.

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IM GoNnA MAke VIDya GAMES!

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because brainlets don't understand subtlety

Do not fuck the humonculous.

babas a nigger

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Wait i've seen that image somewhere on those Yea Forums oc Threads

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I gave my character a gun.

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Followed by the worst, most defeatist cuck advice possible. Strange.

I love this

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last name ever first name greatest

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is there porn of demo yet

BEGONE

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based vibri poster

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user that is lewd

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Isn't the point of their designs to contrast with their environments as well as possible? How about you post screenshots of each one in their element rather than in a black void?

Good designs anons.

A character can contrast with the background without necessarily giving it a simplistic design.

totaly original cat wizard donut steal

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And what's the problem with a simplistic design? Put the character in the context of theirnvideo game and it works wonders. Taking the character out of context doesn't make sense, they're not movie stars. They exist specifically for their video games.

every single indie game

That's fucking Virgil you knob

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that actually has more personality than most indie protags

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I want to kill your character with the power of saying fuck you hard enough.

Because it's bland as fuck? They have no personality. None of the games demand a simplistic white blob design. The characters should look appealing on their own.

snance

it is an absence of style and personality. they dont have the ability and/or motivation to make these characters compelling so they leave it to the player's imagination to basically anthropomorphize these little inert blobs of pixels

To be fair like three of the characters in the OP barely have any personality to begin with.

thats my point. they were designed that way because its easy. so easy even Yea Forums can do it

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>add a cute ribbon on my indie character
>she Is now too overdesigned to be an indie character

nooo
its not fair!!!

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>Because it's bland as fuck? They have no personality.
But those games are the opposite of bland and they're full of personality.
>None of the games demand a simplistic white blob design.
Why not? It ensures the player will never get lost and it allows you just to focus on the environments. It also allows you to go with a greater variety of environments.
>The characters should look appealing on their own.
Why? Why can't they just exist purely for their video games?
>it is an absence of style and personality.
But those games are full of style and personality.
> they dont have the ability and/or motivation to make these characters compelling so they leave it to the player's imagination to basically anthropomorphize these little inert blobs of pixels
Why not? It's just a video game. Not a movie or cartoon.

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I tried my best

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Centipedes? In MY indie game?

It's more likely than you think.

reminder that female characters have far less appeal than male ones. even girls prefer sonic or tails to amy.

His name is Deer Seega

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pengiun

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