Art of Paper Birds

In a previous post, I said that I wouldn't unpack the specific details of the art choices that went into Paper Birds.

It has been on my mind a bit since then, so I'm giving it a bit of a treatment today.

This was for the Emotional Mecha Jam, so I wanted the art to be both martial and sad.  This was also heavily influenced (as previously mentioned) by the 1965 Nuclear War board game, so some of that Strangelove style dark satire worked its way in, too.

Not Perfectly Folded Birds

Okay, so in the previous post regarding Paper Birds, I talked a bit about how it worked, and the thoughts behind the design.

This is what didn't work.

Origami and Game Jams

February's submission to OMGAM coincided with the Emotional Mecha Jam on itch.io.  

This would be my first submission to a public game jam, so I stepped a bit beyond my normally rough-hewn markdown and cobbled together some free fonts and art in MS Publisher, and put out something that could be printed and played.