Art for 2D simulation game

Completed Posted Aug 22, 2013 Paid on delivery
Completed Paid on delivery

Hello, all. I require some art for a 2D Android game. It will be played on both phone and tablet, and I'd like the graphics to scale well -- I'm thinking SVG is the answer to that, but please educate me if there is a better answer. File size has to stay reasonably small, so that they can load on a phone without hogging all the space.

At their smallest size they will be 50px by 50px, so a cartoony style is probably best. Again, if something more realistic is really best, please educate me. Please show me some of your work, so that I can see if it works with the game. If you don't point me to some of your work, I'll know you didn't read this. Before I select someone, I'd like to talk live a bit to make sure we're on the same page.

There are five base blocks which are types of terrain: grass, trees, metal, stone, water.

There are a number of buildings which can go on the blocks of terrain. I'd like the buildings to be smaller, superimposed on a terrain block with the terrain still visible around it. Each building will need three different versions, to represent three levels of tech -- old-fashioned, approximately now, and somewhat futuristic. I'll also need a very small icon, 15x15 at the largest, to show the option to build on the popup build menu.

To take one example, there will be a terrain called wood which should have little trees on it and is clearly identifiable as wooded land when rendered at 50x50 and doesn't look pixelated or otherwise bad when viewed at a larger size. To build a lumber harvesting building, the build-menu icon will perhaps be a tree stump or an axe. The first building will be a simple lumber camp, perhaps 20x20, maybe in the center of wood or maybe tucked in a corner, but with wood visible around the outer edges. The second will add a sawmill with one of those jagged-edged wheels, and can take up more room (or may not; it depends on what makes sense for the building). The third level will be a tree farm (i.e., sustainable) with maybe a fence around it and the sawmill still present, but will hopefully still leave a little room so that the player can see the base terrain at the edges.

I'd like to make the third level of every building some sort of sustainable tech, and I welcome input on how to do this and still have it make a little bit of sense.

Here's a list of what I already know I need:

TREES

lumber camp

sawmill

tree farm

WATER

[nothing actually built on top of water, just need the water]

STONE

pit for digging rocks

real rock quarry

??? What's a sustainable way to get stone?

METAL

cave (hand-mining takes place inside)

real mine with carts on tracks

strip mine (could argue that this isn't sustainable; maybe a recycling plant)

GRASS

[a special case because many different buildings can be built on grass]

Small farm

Large factory farm

Hydroponics tower

Blacksmith

Factory

Not sure -- maybe nanotech?

Hut or cottage

House

Hi-Rise

Waterwheel

Hydroelectric dam

Nuclear power plant

Schoolhouse

School

Academy

There are some other grass-built things which are still being finalized, but this is most of it. There will probably be 3-5 other kinds of buildings, each with its three levels and its little to-build icon for the first level.

Happy bidding.

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Project ID: #4853130

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