Stories of House

This folder is for artwork related to a game concept called "Stories of House", a JRPG dungeon crawl ideas inspired by stuff like House 2, The Goonies, Super Mario and Earthbound. For now it's just art tests and mockups, one of the many little side projects I chip away at. I like the art style of it, it's a departure from my other stuff in many ways. I'm trying simpler, more directly "cartoon" character designs with simpler animation needs. As I work on tiles and props, a very exaggerated, bubbly and fun aesthetic is emerging. That stuff will appear in this folder as well.

If you're curious, The sorta marketing blurb for this game would go something like this:

Grandpa Seamus's House is more than it seems. The grandkids, Simon and Philomena, get more than they bargained for this visit. But so do their friends, karate-obsessed Fatima and neighborhood weirdo Spoons, who come along for the ride. What starts as a strange, rambling grandpa story soon morphs into a scavenger hunt through space, time, and other dimensions. Sections of the house become the strongholds of interdimensional warlords such as Neopolitan Blownapart and his army of Neopolitan Knights, "warrior" ice cream buckets that hate children.

The gameplay would be a JRPG with some elements borrowed from roguelikes (dungeon-driven w/ upgradeable "hub" area -- the living room), soulslikes (difficult battles that are pre-placed and require strategy and creativity to win or bypass), and metroidvanias (recursive level design w/ shortcuts, obstacles, and back-tracking).