Final Stretch - Asset Dump Part 2: Golden Boogaloo

Before getting into the dump, I was busier than usual during the weekend, so I forgot to update Tiger Express like I said I would in the last post. It's updated now, so go check out the new animations!

Icons wise, I threw together the last two very quickly since we're very close to the deadline:
Deck Icon

Coin Pick Up Icon

I also did my best to source a handful of royalty-free, CC0 photos to use as battle backgrounds for the (almost) all of the levels:

And found free sound packs we could use for music and SFX:

Finally, my work here is done. Pat on the back, round of applause, and all that.
If we had more time, I would have loved to hand draw the backgrounds, and maybe take a little more time with some of the icons, but that's that and this is this.

Thank you for following the art-related development of Gilded Tower, and for those of you showing up in person, see you at the showcase!

- Nao

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