Modular Egyptian character sprite sheet?
Hi I am a college student in C++ and Unity and am in the process of starting a 2D sidescrolling game where you play as a sorcerer able to take on the powers of each of the Egyptian gods. Sadly I have run into a bit of a road block as there are almost no games based on Ancient Egypt so assets are hard to find. My desire if to have a muscular body of a man in an Ancient Egyptian skirt with bare chest with 6 pack and bulging arm muscles.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/5f/a6/03/5fa6033d067094b99de78...
Thats the best image example I have of what I desire the body muscles and proportions to be.
One thing I do want is for it to be painted assets kinda cartoonish but not over the top cartoonish
http://media.bigshinyrobot.com/uploads/2013/11/mummies3.jpg
That image is about the most cartoonish i'd want maybe a bit more detailed and real looking than those even.
What I want however is for the characters head to be modular because I want that when they take on the gods power thier head gets replaced with the the animal head of that god. For example take on Horus powers and you have a falcon head replacing the head/neck of the player, or a crocodile or a cat head just as examples since those are some of the gods :) heads just need animations for opening and closing the mouths.
I would like the 2 in one crown of upper and lower egypt so you can have the white one and then when you get the red one just have it cover over the bottom half of the white one. Wearable in all animal head forms.
https://discoveringegypt.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/doubleCrown.png
thats an example of the crown.
I need the character to have an idle animation as well as walk and run and jump. I also need him to weild a crook and flail (be nice if the idle animation had him sheath them on his belt and put his hands on his hips and fidget then draw them again when you stop being idle). The Crook will be used for casting spells by being pointed out before you using the right arm of the character.
http://st2.depositphotos.com/2465573/7143/v/950/depositphotos_71439581-s...
I do however need him to be able to go left too not just right.
The idea of the game is that you have to fight enemies and explore and solve riddles and despell curses to find the 2 parts of the crown of egypt before the forces of evil do as those 2 pieces of the crown when worn together make the owner all powerful.
Unlike the trend in recent years of of even games like skyrim having only maybe half a dozen types of puzzles and once you know to for example look under a claw to work out how to open any 3 ring door my game will have puzzles that require knowledge and brain power to solve. Maybe even going so far as needing to google the Heiroglyphs dictionary to read puzzles and how to dispell curses.
I would like this asset to benifit future people wishing to make egyptian games so would love for this to be licensed in such a way that it can be used in both commercial and non commercial projects. For now I don't intend to sell what I make but when it gets closer to completion I may wish to.
My intent is for those game to be for PC and Nintendo Switch so I do need a decent resolution so it looks decent on 1920x1080 27 inch screens and then even bigger TV's I guess, though if it only works as a handheld on the switch then so be it.
Need the animations to be a uniform rectangular size that is the same for each image in that animation with each animation on it's own line.