Mansi Hunter — The Merchant

NPC merchant design for Mansi Hunter, a boss-battler mobile game in development at Two Headed Shark studio.
The main inspiration behind this guy was Kamaji from Spirited Away - a multi-armed creature running a one-man operation from behind a busy counter.
The design challenge was building a modular shop system around him: swappable counter types for different goods, plus a portal device he uses to pop up across the map. Each element needed its own mechanical logic - how the counters attach, how the portal deploys and collapses - while keeping the whole thing readable as a single cozy merchant setup at a glance.