Usually when I plan a game, I doodle. For a collector theme I had a bunch of ideas like collecting plastic soldiers or "collector" as a huge barrel with water, but all these ideas were too hard to make solo due to the amount of assets. Short story shorter, I decided to make a game inspired by "Sort the Court" (link on itch: https://graebor.itch.io/sort-the-court ). My idea was: "you collect taxes for the king".

I usually specialize in pixelart, but this time I wanted to make something more cartoony and less pixelarty.

I tried not to spend too much time on this stage, because I planned to fit into the COMPO time limit, but I couldn't find a design I liked.

At some point I ended up with 2 kings instead of just one. Funny thing, I tried a bunch of ideas, but a couple of them were present from the very beginning and stayed until the final designs. These are the colors, the red hair, and a huuuge nose.

I was planning to make a couple of ending screens for lose and win conditions, but it had to be cut off, so I’m gonna put it here.

So yeah, I yapped about character design, pls give my game a try here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/58/crown-and-taxes Thanks