Almost-24h Update
Finally, time for some well-deserved rest! It’s 20:11 here and my designer left. I’ll get to eat something while watching Family Guy.
She spent the whole day sketching here, making vectors there and playing around with Photoshop. Here’s (more or less) what cane out:

fire squad, ready to attack!

“rescue us!”

the mighty hero
Meanwhile I spent the whole day trying to figure out how to make smooth controls for the platformer. You can check that out here.