Please Stand By

Has it really been nearly seven months since I posted? Damn. Game currently isn't a priority, real life has taken the centre stage at the moment. However, I'm still ticking away, getting everything ready to start back up again. Bear with me. - Rob

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Working on art for the enemies currently, extra animations as they know surrender if they've seen too many allies killed and other such scenarios. Here are some of my sketches, from before I went into doing the actual in-game art.
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