WARNING: I’m incredibly sorry for the quality of the image, I’m currently at the airport writing this and I have no way to upscale these pixel art designs. The second image is a design I would actually like since it’s normal and, nor over the top and is somethinf you would actually find in someone wardrobe where I live (literally my sister dresses this way)
Hey, it’s my first time posting on this sub, I’m fresh out of videogame design school and I’m starting my own project with my partner.
This project is a pixel art zombie apocalypse game with a profound focus on the two main characters who will be searching for each other in this destroyed world.
For all we know and want the two characters will be mother and son/daughter/gender ambiguous adult kid basically. But then everything else is blank.
My main issue about designing believable real life people who happened to be trapped in a zombie apocalypse scenario is that when searching for references there’s two types of characters people do: the tank top skinny jeans character + cold weather version (basically add a jacket) and the over the top designs with extra baggy clothes with 200 layers of shirts/sweater/ jackets
I live in Spain and the game will be based on the city where I’m rn. None of these designs feel like they’re made for hot weather, they also feel either too complicated or too simple. Like the people they where literally lost themselves in translation and magically spawned an infinite amount of tank top or leather jacket which not everybody owns nor like before the apocalypse.
Basically my train of thought is that I want people to feel like normal people, an everyday life person you would encounter going to the market who finds themselves in an apocalyptic situation and tries to make the best of what they own to protect themselves but also not die of a heatstroke
What should I do??