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Game Rant's Andrew Dyce said, 'The hand-painted artwork of Jen Zee certainly doesn't disappoint, breathing into the game a style that may immediately conjure up images of a childhood fairy tale.' Reviews for Bastion repeatedly praised the game's striking visuals. Her artwork for Bastion often went straight into the game, and she later described the work as 'super empowering' because of the ownership she was given. Zee later called it 'serendipitous' as she was considering a career change anyways, and took the position as Supergiant's art director.

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After seeing Zee's work where she drew 'The Bastion' for the game, the two co-founders at Supergiant immediately asked her to join the project full time. She joined Supergiant in March 2010 as the company's third employee, initially as a temporary contractor, to work on Supergiant's first game, Bastion. Before moving to work at Supergiant Games, Zee worked for Gaia Online in her first job and made isometric environmental designs. Zee was inspired to become an artist by Tetsuya Nomura's character art for Final Fantasy VII at an early age. Her art has received positive accolades from critics, and for her work on Hades, she received numerous awards, including the 2021 BAFTA Games Award for Artistic Achievement. She joined Supergiant Games in March 2010 as a contractor on Bastion and was quickly brought on as the full time art director for the company. A device in the Bastion can use the power of the crystalline Cores to create landmasses and structures, as well as enable the Kid to travel farther afield via 'skyways' that propel him through the air.Jen Zee is an American artist and the art director for Supergiant Games. The only survivor he meets there is an elderly man named Rucks, the game's narrator, who instructs him to collect the Cores that once powered Caelondia. Players take control of the Kid, a silent protagonist who awakens on one of the few remaining pieces of the old world and sets off for the eponymous Bastion, where everyone was supposed to go in troubled times. The game takes place in the aftermath of the Calamity, a catastrophic event that suddenly fractured the city of Caelondia as well as the surrounding areas of the game's world into many floating pieces, disrupting its ecology and reducing most of its people to ash. This narration gives scripted plot information as well as dynamic comments, such as on the player's skill with a weapon or performance while fighting enemies. As the player progresses through the levels, a voice narrates their actions. At the end of most levels, the player collects an item called a Core or a Shard occasionally, the level begins to disintegrate once the Kid takes the item, forcing him to hastily retreat. Levels contain many different environment types, including cities, forests, and bogs. Bastion's soundtrack was produced and composed by Darren Korb, and a soundtrack album was made available for sale in August 2011.

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It was released for Mac OS X and iOS in 2012, for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita in 2015, for Xbox One in 2016, and Nintendo Switch in 2018.

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Bastion was published in July 2011 for Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Arcade, and in August 2011 through digital distribution for Microsoft Windows on Steam. They debuted the game at the September 2010 Penny Arcade Expo, and it went on to be nominated for awards at the 2011 Independent Games Festival and win awards at the Electronic Entertainment Expo prior to release. The game was built over the course of two years by a team of seven people split between San Jose and New York City. Bastion's story follows the Kid as he collects special shards of rock to power a structure, the Bastion, in the wake of an apocalyptic Calamity. It features a dynamic voiceover from a narrator, and is presented as a two-dimensional game with an isometric camera and a hand-painted, colorful art style. In the game, the player controls 'the Kid' as he moves through floating, fantasy-themed environments and fights enemies of various types. Bastion is an action role-playing video game developed by independent developer Supergiant Games and originally published in 2011 by Warner Bros.