Question on drawing and video game development

Salam aleykum,

this concerns characters for video games:

Drawing easily recognizable lifelike things is obviously a huge no-go, also you do not want to give into this wretched degenerate lewd gacha scheme that's popular despite the ridiculous amounts of money to be made. Fire burns paper...

But how is it when characters are lo-fi highly pixelated and have hollowed out eyes in pure black?

Do pure black eyes which display an empty skull count as depictions of the living, can the argument be made that an empty skull is signifying death?

Can one leave out the eyes and just draw brows?

A good combination with faceless characters and fitting ambiente would be horror games, but are these even non-haram (I'd err on the side of nope)?

And of course, since the faith is supposed to be easy and maybe Allah has better to grant for leaving these things aside, I'd be easily ready to discard these altogether.

Then I'd just focus on mecha and robots and shooters with characters that wear helms visors and masks instead of faces, or whose heads look like abstract modern art, nothing lifelike, e.g. like in the game Warframe.

Or maybe have the game be top-down 2D where you don't notice much of the characters.

Allah knows best.