For creative people, inspiration can be found anywhere and everywhere in the world… even a half-eaten KFC meal or your wife's sleeping face, as one indie dev behind a promising upcoming turn-based RPG has proven.
Please behold Billy the Hero – a dark fantasy RPG where you step into the shoes of an amnesiac bear (Billy), who happens to be "the world's worst criminal embodying all 7 Deadly Sins," according to its Steam page. Developer JOJOJOJOsoft makes a point of noting that "this game was born from a deep passion for Handmade / Hand-drawn Art," with everything from the character art, environments, enemies and sprites completely created "by human hands." Generative AI tools are out of the equation, aside from "upscaling specific image assets to enhance sharpness, and to assist with initial localization drafts – all of which are subsequently reviewed and polished by human developers."
