Thanks for taking the extra time to finish this installment DJ!
The sprites could take up a dev log of their own haha.
The "abridged" version is: Sawyer made Chip's battler graphic; townspeople and monsters' map sprites were 2k3 RTP (some with palette swaps from me); Sarah was from Tiny Tales (with another custom palette swap); and every other actor battler or actor map sprite not mentioned elsewhere was custom, using some combination of Tiny Tales and the 2k3 RTP as references. It definitely took longer to make those than any other element of the game, but it was freaking worth it IMO.
I know some of the soundtrack is a bit too on the nose (ruins battle theme!) but I think it helped the vibe more than being a detriment. Still, I'd want to go with bespoke music in a long-form project as I've used pretty much all the good 16-bit stuff I could find in one or more jams.
Was super fun being able to jam all of the guest characters into this one! (Chip seems to be a popular sidekick choice - I wonder why? :D)