Thanks guys for the comments! The next chance to play this will be a public beta session that we hope will start in summer still, so not too long into the future!
For textures, we often use simple Paint (16x16 pixel tiles are surprisingly easy to make there). I've also tried the free edition of Graphics Gale, which is pretty nice
... Uhm, I'm not posting too much on this, right? You guys would tell me if I post too much about this?
as always your game looks frickin amazing subscribed to your YT channel just now Spread the movie you posted around to some colleagues here at work, when the Demo comes out, I think we'll all have a go at it!