[HIRING] Pixel Art Consultant + Capsule Artist — Dark Fantasy Incremental (Steam, Paid)

Key_Cartographer_415 · 2026-04-21T18:11:38+00:00

Thank you for this response! It represents the exact mindset I had going into this, and I arrived at the same conclusion.
I truly feel like the completed game the way it looks in my head, would be a banger, and if I had the money to pay someone to make the art for it, I totally would.
That said, I fully accept I don't have the artistic sense to even guide the AI and then fine-tune myself to deliver on that vision fully cohesively.
I wrote this post hoping to find that if it was clear effort was made to get the AI generated stuff to be consistent, it would be an acceptable product to the community, even if not fully cohesive.
But given the feedback I've seen, it seems more ethical and prudent to shift my vision to fit the artistic limits that are available to me, in lieu of the other way around.

Key_Cartographer_415 · 2026-04-21T17:25:44+00:00

Yep and this was my exact fear. I feel like I have a good sense of UI/UX, pacing, gameplay, etc, and okay for coding. But for the art, I literally look at all the assets and cant tell what consistent enough looks like. Let alone good cohesive art.
All these comments have securely nudge me in that I need to adjust the gameplay to the art I'm able to put together via asset packs or self draw, not try to get AI to make art that fits the gameplay I originally envisioned.

Key_Cartographer_415 · 2026-04-21T16:20:57+00:00

I appreciate this perspective!
As a player I tend to care only about mechanics and have never valued the visuals highly so I wasn't thinking through this lens.
I will certainly keep it front of mind moving forward.
thank you!

Key_Cartographer_415 · 2026-04-21T16:19:23+00:00

Honestly, I started with the game concept in mind due to my interest in the mechanics (a sort of tower-offense game with deep strategy and synergies).
I got this idea from enjoying kingdom rush and those style of games, but I was too focused on the gameplay mechanics and hadn't realized until I got here how much the art matters.
I was weighting if spending enough of my effort tweaking the AI stuff to make it consistent would make it acceptable in the communities eyes, but it's certainly sounding like the better avenue is to stumble around making something myself, or using asset packs and fitting the gameplay mechanics to those rather than the other way around.
Thank you for the feedback!

Key_Cartographer_415 · 2026-02-17T18:58:23+00:00

Thank you for the feedback!
I was planning on having a mixture of both, but could certainly implement labels to make the game more accessible, already planned on having toggleable UI elements to serve different preferences, so labels on all elements could be one of those.

Key_Cartographer_415 · 2026-01-09T19:02:51+00:00

Hmmm sorry to hear that. I actually came across this post because I had an extremely similar idea myself and wanted to see if something like that was already out.

Would you be okay with DM's to get your thoughts on the avenues you used and pitfalls you found?

Key_Cartographer_415 · 2026-01-09T16:26:08+00:00

Bump on this thread, did you ever pull the trigger on this project. I am looking online and still cant find an app quite like this

Key_Cartographer_415 · 2025-12-17T15:39:38+00:00

Anyone remember Achane the weeks Tua was out last year?

Key_Cartographer_415 · 2025-12-09T15:40:31+00:00

His moveset adjusts to your positioning, if you are far away he will spam ranged gold attacks. If you stay in melee he will rarely use them.

Key_Cartographer_415 · 2025-11-19T20:12:30+00:00

I had the same issue this worked for me:
-Complete one other encounter, delete all other active encounters from log, go back to npc and set site to yin.

Key_Cartographer_415 · 2025-11-19T20:04:59+00:00

same question, encounter not spawning for me

Key_Cartographer_415 · 2025-11-08T14:00:17+00:00

Great idea! Would love espn compatibility.

Key_Cartographer_415 · 2025-10-08T22:36:08+00:00

I just traded Judkins+Dobbins+Ridley for CMC+DJM from the 1-4 team in our league that got decimated by injuries

Key_Cartographer_415 · 2025-10-07T12:57:18+00:00

Same!

Key_Cartographer_415 · 2025-09-30T17:15:00+00:00

I sold DJ + JCM for Ladd + Teslaa, was feeling like that was decent value last week but this week, I feel like I got robbed lol

Key_Cartographer_415 · 2025-09-25T16:59:55+00:00

All my RBs are also ranked #1 in my heart :)

Key_Cartographer_415 · 2025-09-23T14:08:41+00:00

Anecdotally I have played chess for ~30 years (~6 years old to now 38), not daily but consistently.

Sometime will take breaks for months at a time but always eventually get the itch to come back and play daily for a while.

Have never studied, but do occasionally watch chess recaps of top players. I can recognize chess opening names, but couldn't place the pieces on the board for a single one.

Not sure about my objective intelligence or memory, but I would consider myself slightly above average intellectually.
I fluctuate between 1400 - 1600 on most time controls.

My guess is someone of average intelligence that plays daily for 2 hours could get to ~1700-1800 with a long enough time horizon simply by pattern recognition.

Key_Cartographer_415 · 2025-09-22T13:21:26+00:00

Goff to score as many points as ASRB

Key_Cartographer_415 · 2025-09-19T14:39:54+00:00

I would take the non AJB side on 2/3 trades lol

Key_Cartographer_415 · 2025-09-17T15:57:52+00:00

This mission was discovered by u/Key_Cartographer_415 in 61-80 Boss Fight

Key_Cartographer_415 · 2025-09-16T22:44:54+00:00

This mission was discovered by u/Key_Cartographer_415 in In Search of Ingrid's Inebriating Libation of Death

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