Devlog 30 - Locking the First Enemy Lineup

Summary

I narrowed the first public enemy set down to a small roster: three core enemy designs plus a couple of variants. The big goal now is making them readable immediately, even when the arena is busy.

What changed?

Pushed Ferraille into a much shorter, broader, heavier body shape so he stops reading like another tall Nutcracker.
Tested several enemy scales directly in the arena: small, medium, large, and mixed groups. I am leaning toward the medium-to-small range for most of the cast.
Started defining how each enemy should move, idle, attack, get hit, and die instead of treating animation as a generic shared set.
Chompers already has a first run, idle, attack, hit, and death pass, with some of the frames moving into color.
Continued exploring future enemy ideas, including a ballet/martial-arts Nutcracker whose spinning attack could reference the ballet without turning into a literal ballet costume gag.

This is mostly art and animation work, but it is making the combat roles much easier to imagine.

Next steps

Finish the first enemy animation sets.
Keep testing scale and silhouette in the real arena rather than on isolated model sheets.