Spearmint - Botography
Become a botanist in Botography, a cozy 2D adventure-exploration game. Navigate an uncharted whimsical region, where plants have unique and fantastical properties. Gather materials, grow plants, and utilize their abilities to discover the mystery of the forest and the secrets that lie within.
You can check out the game here. https://project-bitter-root.itch.io/botography
This is my senior project at Drexel University. I was one of the main animators for the game. I had a hand in all the key plant animations for the game.
This is the spearmint plant, it makes the environment colder and when applied to the player protects from heat. The animation, final design, almanac art and icons are all drawn by me. This plant took the longest to animate in the entire project, but it taught me a lot of valuable information on how to use the newly released procreate dreams.
I created the animation within Procreate Dreams.
This is a magnified version of the animation. The animation was built on ones, for 12fps.
These are all the sprites used for the spearmint overworld animation
This is the almanac splash image. The almanac is a book in the game that players refer back to when they discover new plants. It is conceptually very similar to a pokedex for plants.
This is the rough version of the animation.
These are some concepts from early in development for the spearmint.
You can see the design get firmly figured out here, but with some variation amongst itself.
This is a different coloring of the spearmint plant. This was created before I had created the color palette for the ice region, which it would later adapt.