The Battle Princesses+ Murder Princess are iconic Callings in Break!! and represent the power of love and hate respectively.
Also toying with putting the logo in a block so it can be dumped on any background!
Background photobashed! Maybe should have some ruins.
Older explorations Cover 1 + Cover 2
Ha, wonderful!
ReplyDeleteThe only thing I might push for is the inclusion of one or more characters for frame/style diversity - maybe the sample Factotum and Raider?
I very much like how this cover looks. Also the background around the logo really works well. More characters would probably be a good idea, so that people don't think it's just a magical girl game. Maybe a more generic fantasy person and maybe some kind of robot to display the scope of Break!!
ReplyDeleteMagical Girl Game, sounds good to me :-)
DeleteGonna do a group shot one next...
These are nice (and I *always* approve of Murder Princesses) but I kinda think that your first cover concepts (esp 'novel' and 'gamebox') might do a better job at suggesting that This Game is Something Different.
ReplyDeleteYes, I like the first stuff too! Beware overdesign + normalisation!
DeleteI love you guys but not this cover direction. If you're going to have scantily clad women on the cover, then bring back the big beautiful orc lady. You can't make a grown ass man carry that book around the way it is now.
ReplyDeleteI just want to add that I want to throw my money at you. Reynaldo and Grey you both are awesome.
DeleteAs stated this is really more of an experiment - I'm not adverse to scantily clad characters on the cover, but I'd want to have it balanced it out if we did (just to show off a wide range of characters, at the least).
DeleteOne thing Grey and I did do was pass around the idea of actually have a couple different covers available as well, who knows.
Thank you, Reynaldo. I'm sorry if I went SJW on you too hard. I'm really excited about this game. It was a knee jerk reaction admittedly. Keep up the great work.
DeleteNo worries, I'm a fairly social justicey type to be entirely honest so I felt they were valid concerns.
DeleteUltimatey what's most important to me is that people can play a character they enjoy, and that wide variety of looks and style is validated in the art and writing itself.
I feel you have been doing a great job of that and I can't wait for the finished product.
DeleteCompletely unrelated but I've begun listening to your podcasts on Dark Fantasy now that I'm about to run Curse of Strahd and I just wanted to thank you again for all the wonderful insights.
Well thanks! I am glad you're enjoying it. :)
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