Hi warlloyd, I'm still hoping somebody makes a game with these assets. For the most recent art challenge here at OGA, I used these characters and the cyberpunk pizza delivery theme to make a set of time travel themed assets. Thanks again for making these awesome characters.

What a unique project! Really neat style, and the positioning in the .gif looks like it must have been really tough to make work, but it's such a cool effect.

I'm pretty happy with how he came out! I tried adding some grubby little hands at the end, but they didn't come out so well.

I left all my intermediate steps so people can see how I got there. I started with one of my wrinkly old faces, and the buff shirt. I widened the face, made the nose bigger, and added some slouch to the shoulders (moved everything above each red arrow forward one pixel). This guy is on the more, ahem, robust side, so I removed shading for the muscles (on his chest, and the little bit coming out of the armpit defining the lower bounds of his pecs), and broadened his lower half a bit. Finally I smoothed some of the rough edges out.

I ended up playing with different beard styles, I thought the no-moustache version looks the most like TinyWorlds' character, and I was especially proud of the greedy eyes and pursed lips in the final version. I definitely struggled getting the hands right, though.

P.S. Just for clarity, everything in this is released under the same license as the main submission, though you may also want to credit TinyWorlds.

Your whole style is just so unique and well done - I love all the item sets you've posted!