Of all the backgrounds I made for the game "King of the Hat", this one is my favourite.
The description I was given to work with was this: "Riverside is where the character Forest lives. He's a bit of a hermit, but is also a haberdasher (which is kind of like a mage but for hats). He knows the most about hats in all of Hatlandia."
The inspiration for the buildings was mostly pagoda-style architecture. For everything else, I looked at natural areas close to where I live and pictures of swampland and forests. On a day trip to visit the game studio in Montreal, I visited the botanical gardens and took my own pictures to use as inspiration.
Photos from Montreal's Botanical Gardens and a quarry in Ottawa
Colour variations
