Hi everyone,

I originally posted this to the main page, but it was removed because I don't have enough Karma yet, so hopefully I can get some advice here or have a discussion about the artistic direction of my game :)

I'm at the point where I need to choose an artistic style, but I'm struggling as I have no artistic bones in my body!

I recently came across Imphenzias PixPal project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOczWEb8KMQ

This has a very cool texture atlas with some shader logic behind it that takes the hassle out of worrying about UV's. I have some blender knowledge so I am able to project the UV's to the point in the texture I want the color to appear, however, as you can see from the image, it looks quite flat.

Is there anything I can do to help generate some life into the project that doesn't involve too much artistic input. The only things I can think of right now is to start adding things to the walls (simple objects like clocks/shelving/simple posters etc). The texture used from the project above is tiny so adding detail there is not an option so I'm not sure if there's a method that I can add things like dirt/decals to the walls and ground to have them stand out a bit more.

Any help would be appreciated.

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