The girl is the main protagonist of the game. I wanted to give her a simple look, yet mysterious and that felt like something straight out of a fairy tale.

The sprite sheet for the girl’s animations

The different tileset for the thorns

The movable boulder

Ingame screenshot focused on the starting area

Ingame screenshot 1

Ingame screenshot 2

Gameplay video:

Ludum Dare 31 “Path of Thorns” gameplay video from wolfsbane on Vimeo.

The main character is a tribal shaman. I designed her imagining that her tribe worshiped some sort of Crow look alike divinity.

The lesser evil spirits’s design was inspired by piranhas. I added an ethereal tail to further enhance the fact that it’s a spirit.

The large evil shadow spirits are the bosses of the game. I didn’t want it to have any particular shape, instead looking like it’s made of shadow and eyes.

The background image used in the game. I wanted it to look like a dark ancient forest with an eerie feel to it, since it’s been corrupted by evil spirits.

I’ve made a system of modular trees that can be easily assembled to look like several different trees, but due to lack of time this was abandoned.

Some screenshots for the game :

Title screen for the game

ingame screenshot 1

ingame screenshot 2

Gameplay video:

Ludum Dare 30 “Otherworld” from wolfsbane on Vimeo.