Devlog #2 - Is it still minimalist?

Hello!

A little update from my side. I am focusing heavily on improving the first time experience for players, mainly by making Squars a little bit more pleasant to the eye while keeping it minimalist and as square as possible. JOIN DISCORD and say hi! ːsteamhappyː

Getting rid of programmer art:

Making UI changes and trying to make my square towers look better is something way more challenging for me than just simply implementing a new mechanic. Nonetheless I am pretty happy with results and find working on it quite satisfying in the long term 🙂 Below new “models” for some of the towers. I still have more towers to improve and the whole UI to fix!

Command Center, commanding Steam post image

Energy Harvester doing the work! Steam post image

Healing Tower, healing nothing Steam post image

Machinegun with multiple barrels Steam post image

Cannon in action! Steam post image

More readable font:

I had to sacrifice font squareness in favor of more readability and less eye sore when reading longer texts. Still, the new font is from the pixel-art family so I would call it a compromise!

Old on the left, new on the right

More updates to come. Have a good one!