RoE Devlog 4 - Sprite Changes

Hey everyone, just wanted to update everyone with our progress on the upcoming 0.07 release.  In the last post I mentioned some major tweaks to the character sprites, and I'd like to show you what those look like.  In previous releases the bodies of our sprites were treated as a single layer which has a lot of limitations.  For example, when the main character carries Lena's firewood that pose was saved as an entire second sprite, which eats up disc space and makes the script of the game more complicated than it needs to be.  Since we have a few upcoming scenes that require more subtle pose changes, we decided to go ahead and break each arm into its own separate set of layers:

Now we can switch poses around in the same way we change facial expressions, and we have a good amount of variety to make the characters more expressive and interactive.  To save time we're starting out with just the MC & Eryn, but we plan to update Lucine, Lena, Raisa, & Rithe to the new system in a later update.  One more thing though, we didn't just stop with the arms.  We've been getting a lot of compliments on our artwork, but to be honest we're still learning and improving.  There's a noticeable gap in quality between some of our older sprites like Eryn & Lucine and the newest ones like Rithe, Baylor, & Remi.  Since we were already making a pretty big change we decided to do some housekeeping to bring our sprites up to the same level.  For Biorn, we fixed his hair, redesigned his knife, shrank his monster pingas (sorry dude), and did a few other minor touch ups here and there:

For Eryn we did a bit more.  She got a pretty major body and face redesign in addition to new hair and other minor tweaks to scaling:

That artwork from October is pretty wild isn't it?  Those original sprites were in the 0.01 alpha that we never released.  We've come a really long way in a short time, and I'm glad you're all sticking with us as we go.  As always thanks for your support, and feel free to contact us with any bugs, suggestions, or questions.