For having only spent a few hours on the background image, I think it turned out very well. It used to take me days to make those, and they weren't quite as good.
My goal was to have the demo released by the end of the year, and I am definitely on schedule for that.
Hell yeah this looks great. What kind of image is it? Can you do a gif or flip between multiple images that can give a feeling of movement in the water or the grass? It might be doing that already. Keep up the good work I love it!
Thanks! It's just a static png. While animation would be nice, doing so with pixel art graphics is very labor intensive, so I think there are other places where the effort would be better spent.
That makes sense. Animating the launch menu screen that people usually only see briefly does seem like it should have a low priority compared to other parts that they will see far more often. Excellent work so far!