Hello and welcome to another art update. This week we are starting with updates on characters from the artist majikarpette. in this sprite you can see the shipyard’s cook, Maelle.

In most gamedev studios, the role of concept artist, character designer, and writer are separated.

But For us, it makes perfect sense to let the artist fill up the page with extra headcannons.

This addled granularity makes it more fun to imagine responses to events that the advisors will suggest. This is similar to oil painters who tone their canvas value down from 100% white to a warm 50% grey tone.

In The Shipyard, the advisors are a group of 8 yardies who are your friends and fellow shipwrights, sometimes they give you advice.

They will be displayed as lowpoly 3D models, but also as 2D pngs for dialogue and be present in illustrations for events.

All of the art above by majikarpette

And here’s a redesign of the traveling merchant trader that players can buy rare engines and advanced ship parts from.