In my nation-building game Country Architect, worker teams roam the map building infrastructure, transporting resources, and defending territory. Each team has different states (idle/working/drafted/charging) and can be equipped with multiple specialized vehicles. (Eg. One team could have several excavators, and a few drones to help defend itself).
I need to decide: Should teams be represented as emoji blobs or a construction vehicle?
- Emoji blobs show team state at a glance (happy/working/alert)
- Construction vehicle feels more professional but less expressive
Poll (no signup): https://linkto.run/p/Z5UY3MPQ
Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4136240/Country_Architect/
I’d love some input. Which would you prefer in a game like this?
Depends. How are you defining your art style?
I have some vague concepts of an idea, but they seem to change every once in a while. I’d like a modern vaporwave rusty industrial pastel fabric 80s lighting look.
Yeah. I know.
So you probably want a top-down image of a piece of equipment then? Neither a blob nor an icon.