Hey, Backpackers!

Its Tuesday again, so its time to introduce yet another character!

Today we want to share the story of Satchel, our most charming hero!

Playing as Satchel you can be a true pacifist, using his instruments to charm enemies with beautiful music. But do you know his tragic backstory?
Satchel is a shy but kind-hearted robin, and son of a nobleman from the bird kingdom of the mountains. His father was a generous lord and staunch critic of the three tyrannical emperors of the Bird Kingdom, and worked tirelessly to help the common bird. Satchel's familial home was destroyed in a raid by the army of the Bird Empire due to his fathers defiance, and association with the anti-crown political movement known as Skylight. The father, who got critically injured during the attack, asked his only son for one last favor in his final moments, as he gave him a sacred relic he had been hiding from his enemies, and shared a terrible secret the Crown had been desperately trying to keep from getting out.
Satchel fled his homeland with nothing but what he could fit in his magical backpack, the sacred relic, and instructions from his father to seek sanctuary with one of his allies in the Oakshire Forest.

And what about Satchel's journey through Backpack Hero's development?

Satchel was the first character to be unlocked in our kickstarter campaign and was meant to be the first character to be released, after Purse of course, but we had a lot of trouble with him, redesigning him four times!
His first iteration eventually became the adaptive challenge, and his second and third were built around the idea of a sliding puzzle. After trying all of these and none of them being very fun, we put him on the backburner to make Tote and CR-8. After designing them we revisited him and came up with the version that made it in the game!


Satchel has also had the most visually radical redesigns of any character. So while our pixel artist, Gangs, thinks Satchel has the most elegant design of any character after Purse, we struggled a lot making him! Hope you understand Satchel's story better now! Stay tuned - next week we'll tell you more about another hero! [quote=author] READ ABOUT OTHER HEROES:
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[ 2023-06-20 17:46:32 CET ] [ Original post ]