After making FrostLoop for the GMTK 2025 game jam, I spent a week improving the art for that game.
Specifically making unique art for each of the trains.
Here is a before and after of each train except for the engine car cause I didn’t update that one
Engine Car
Sleep Car Before and After
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After
Farm Car Before and After
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After
Kitchen Car Before and After
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After
GreenHouse Car Before and After
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After
Scraper Car Before and After
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After
Factory Car Before and After
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After
Storage Car Before and After
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After
Prison Car Before and After
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After
Entertainment Car Before and After
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After
Once I finished the art I bundled all of them up and sold them as assets of various game asset stores.
In that process I had to make a thumbnail image for those assets. For the thumbnail I turned to a new drawing tool.
InkScape.
InkScape lets you create Vector Art images. Vector art has the upside being able to scale up and down to any size without losing quality.
I needed 6 different sized thumbnails across all store pages. Rather than make 6 different images, I could create 1 image in InkScape and easily export it to the 6 different sizes I needed, without losing image quality.
Inkscape was a bit of a learning curve, but I will likely use it in the future for similar situations.
Thumbnails
Unity Asset Store
GameDevMarket
Itch.io
