Development Resources
Here you find helpful links and general guidelines how the look and feel should be from a User Experience point of view.
Artwork and Design
The general art style will be comic like as for example World of Warcraft. This helps the game to get fast assets as its easier then archiving foto-realism and also these styles are more timeless. The assets should be in a low poly style to also ease up development and to help to get a more “timeless” look and feel.
UI Design
Currently no final UI Design was found. Feel free to contribute!
Logos
The Bestia logo is done by the font Long Shot
Fonts
The fonts should be cleanly readable and only two should be used, one for normal text and another one for more prominent headers:
- The main font for text is Open Sans
- The header font is Proza Libre
There is one Bitmap font for certain ingame usages like damage popups or small item number counts is
- NES Cyrillic by xbost, Public Domain
Links
Every game needs a good amount of artwork and assets. During development a few pages stood out where to find helpful resources, below is a list of very good and mostly free game assets sources.
If you want to integrate new assets into Bestia it is important to chose some with an appropriate licence. Since the game itself and currently the assets are released under a free licence the artwork licence must at least allow the bundling and sharing. Creative Commons 0 or Public Domain is preferred.
- Bitmap Fonts (most of them Public Domain). Has a nice gallery of bitmap fonts freely available.
- Time Fantasy A real nice asset of compatible tilesets and sprites for RPG style games. Mostly they are free.
- Game-Icons.net A lot of usable icons with a CC BY 3.0 licence.
- Kenney Big chunk of assets some of them free to use.
- itch.io A lot of nice game assets. Some are free, and some can be bought for a few Dollars.
- Grass Shader Tutorial Tutorial about stylized grass for Unit.