I made this Valentine’s Day card for Jasson using watercolors – because nothing says “love” like blobs of slime with skulls on them.

Hark! The herald quaridin sing! Here is a free Creasmas wallpaper to bring holiday cheer to your monitor.

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Merry Creasmas, from everyone at Siege Games.

The Glowbat is one of the first creatures I designed for Crea. As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, my pixel art skills have improved considerably over the past year, and the Glowbat was starting to look a little shabby in comparison. One major problem was that he is supposed to be an underground-dwelling creature, but his grey-brown color made him difficult to see in his environment. For a real-life animal, that’s all well and good, but for a video game, it’s visually confusing.

So here’s the new and improved Glowbat. I made him just slightly larger, added a brighter color scheme to help him pop out of the backgrounds, and made him look like he is being lit from below by his…uh…glowball.

For our beta testers who complained that the underground biome was too barren: watch out. This guy will be waiting for you, and he’s got some pretty fast attacks!

I had played with pixel art as a teenager, posting my little sprites on my Geocities homepage. But when Jasson asked me to do the art for Crea, I really had no idea what I was doing. I’m used to painting large illustrations in Photoshop, so at first I really disliked the restrictions and teeny-tiny size of pixel art.

It’s been almost one year since our Kickstarter, and during that time my eye for pixel art has improved. I put a lot more time and effort into every artwork now. Here are some examples.

I created the left llama banner for our Kickstarter. What a mess. There are stray pixels and blurriness everywhere. On the right is a llamacorn tapestry I drew just the other day, and is probably my favorite thing I’ve made for Crea so far.

On the left is a shameful, shameful drawing of a bed. On the right, a more interesting and confident bed.

And here are two oak trees.

If you thought Crea looked good during our Kickstarter, just wait until it’s finished!

You may have noticed something different about our blog – we finally got some professional logos made for Crea and Siege Games. I (Kelley) had designed some makeshift logos for our Kickstarter campaign, but I am no graphic designer. We needed professional help. Jasson is going to GDC next week, and needs some business cards, so we decided that this would be a good time for some rebranding.

This logo was designed by Herman Dawson. In high school Herman and Jasson used to make RPG Maker games together. Today Herman is a professional graphic designer. We really had no idea what we wanted for Siege Games, so Herman came up with this design that is strong and modern and reminds me of a shield or crest.

This logo was sort of a group effort by Herman, David and myself. We wanted a design that expressed the boundless opportunities for exploration in Crea. The globe illustration was drawn by me.

For comparison, this was our old logo:

Yeah……like I said, I’m not a graphic designer. This logo doesn’t say much, and certainly doesn’t give off a sense of excitement or adventure. It served its purpose during the Kickstarter, though.

What do you guys think of the new logos? Also, is anyone going to GDC?

“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful”. William Morris

In Crea, you will be able to adorn your house with these exquisite oil paintings. The fun part is that when you craft a painting, you never know which one you’re going to get. The large painting of Norman will be a rare HQ version, or something like that.

Think how much fun this could be to mod. You can easily create your own paintings and share them with your friends. Well, I think it would be fun anyway. Soon I am going to share the picture frame templates on this blog so you can start working on your paintings.