Moodboard of ideas

With some initial concepts that went from spies, mermaids, chinese zodiac and a few others, we decided to go for a steam punk theme but also with a stylised concept for the art.
Our main inspiration I would say, was the game The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. It has an iconic style for the saga, really heart-warming graphics and not mention the epic gameplay.
These is the moodboard that we came up with. It's a mixture of Machinarium, FF: four heroes of light, Lost winds and other few ones.

From there we looked at several other games in the same range. Knowing that we planned to add a robot character and a Victorian girl . Something characteristic of Steampunk is that is trying to imitate the functionality of a modern life without having the developed electricity to the actual stage and having coal and steam machines as their mayor source of energy. This can only mean one thing: loads of details.