Die Trying: American Hero

A tactical RPG centered around a terrible sports league in an even more terrible world. Can a team of American Idiots really win the Super Bowl? Can they rid the world of consequence forever? Well, they're either gonna do it, or they're gonna [TITLE SCREEN]

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I've spent a lot of time getting good at using Hero Forge for modeling my D&D characters, and a lot of time doing pixel art from when I used to do Fire Emblem Rom Hacks. Realized I could combine the two so I'd just have a really good base for making much more complicated and dynamic pixel art.

He was a government super soldier/experiment/living weapon, now he's left that behind to pursue his dream: playing sports that let him use his crazy powers for recreation. So he's here as your football samurai now.

[die-trying-game]

Concept box art, models created in Hero Forge.

This game basically stemmed from the idea of Fantasy Football. Except it’s real Fantasy Football, there’s magic and wizards, it’s a sport where anything is possible, a fight to the death.

It started with this mental image of a guy like running into an end zone, ball in the air triumphant as he scores a touchdown. But there’s a huge lance impaled dramatically through him, yet his face is still just that proud feeling of scoring a goal. He was either gonna score that goal or he was gonna…

Die Trying (credits roll)