On week 5 we were tasked with creating assets for a top down shooter game, for this game I chose the theme of a hamster fighting off waves of rats that are attacking, for this game I created two hamster sprites, one with guns and one without, I created a rat sprite with 5 different colour variations, these colours being the default grey, brown, blue, purple and black, these all look identical except from the colour variations.
The hamster sprite is a hamster inside of a hamster ball equipped with a gun on each side, i chose this as i was inspired by the “wrecking ball” character from overwatch, i decided to do it differently however as the hamster is inside the ball at all times and the guns just stick to the side of the ball while it rolls around.
the rats were a simple design as they were meant to be a basic enemy that comes at the player in waves, I decided however that they would be the most fitting as the scene started to resemble a lab and I felt that the hamster using somewhat strange technology would fit this theme.