CHALLENGE 1/13/2014: Weird Pixels
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Topic: CHALLENGE 1/13/2014: Weird Pixels
Posted By: administrator
Subject: CHALLENGE 1/13/2014: Weird Pixels
Date Posted: 13 January 2014 at 12:01am
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Posted By: skittle
Date Posted: 13 January 2014 at 7:22am
| Quick question, if someone is doing a space shooter could they flip the width with the height? |
Posted By: skamocore
Date Posted: 13 January 2014 at 8:12am
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Nope, just W x H. BTW, check out http://www.gog.com/game/stargunner - Stargunner for some inspiration (it's free on GOG). ------------- |
Posted By: Mrmo Tarius
Date Posted: 13 January 2014 at 9:05am
Very early tileset testing thing with 100% placeholder colouring ;D |
Posted By: skittle
Date Posted: 13 January 2014 at 9:08am
| Wtf? How did you make those so quickly? |
Posted By: Mrmo Tarius
Date Posted: 13 January 2014 at 11:44am
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Step 1: be lazy
Step 2: make tiles Step 3: combine tiles :D |
Posted By: inphy
Date Posted: 13 January 2014 at 12:09pm
An pointy clicky thingy idea with EGA palette: The middle of the hud is a sanity meter, making mistakes during the game gradually breaks the mask (decreases sanity) and when you go over the edge it's game over. Rated H for happy end! --- edit: Sketching out the idea a bit. Don't copy that floppy! 
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Posted By: xinoivsionix
Date Posted: 13 January 2014 at 1:00pm
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(*WIP*Line*Art*) http://s1368.photobucket.com/user/ZurDo_Xoro_Race/media/Lineart_zpsb14b38cc.png.html"> 
(*Udapte*1.0*) http://s1368.photobucket.com/user/ZurDo_Xoro_Race/media/haaa_zpsabcf9c90.png.html"> 
(*Udapte*1.1*) http://s1368.photobucket.com/user/ZurDo_Xoro_Race/media/AAAA_zpse999c7d4.png.html">  [/IMG]
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Posted By: CELS
Date Posted: 14 January 2014 at 1:44am
| Nice work, guys. inphy, I love what you have so far. Though I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of Lovecraftian elements you put in the background. |
Posted By: Mrmo Tarius
Date Posted: 14 January 2014 at 5:03am
Update :) now has fish guys. And what looks like small Cthulhu :)
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Posted By: Muxaun
Date Posted: 14 January 2014 at 1:42pm
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this is not even a sketch. this is just an attempt to get used to tiling.
I have not yet decided with the style and colors. 
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Posted By: Velrio
Date Posted: 14 January 2014 at 8:43pm
Something about feeding an elder god questionable chemicals to make it evolve into more terrifying forms. And like you have to pray to call it back from the depths.
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Posted By: CELS
Date Posted: 15 January 2014 at 3:24am
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So much cool stuff. My favourite idea so far is the "sanity meter". That's too funny!
Mrmo Tarius, why did you remove the fog of war effect? I rather liked it! Not sure what's going on with the sleeping mobs there. Does Cthulhu wake them from their slumber? 
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Posted By: Mrmo Tarius
Date Posted: 15 January 2014 at 4:14am
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I still have the fog "resources", I'm just afraid it will take away from the precious little screen space I have available :D
I'll see if I can make it work somehow :) Also not sure if I want the mobs to be sleeping or, you know, dead :D the large Z kind of looks strange :D *update* 
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Posted By: Muxaun
Date Posted: 15 January 2014 at 12:59pm
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Still playing with how it might look. The overall idea is an exploratory game with no active enemies - you just collect artifacts from the city while avoiding dangers.
It is hard as hell to make it obvious what is on the foreground(interactive) and what is on the background(just a decoration). I predict I will not be able to enter cuz I didn't yet decide what to do. 
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Posted By: Kaishido
Date Posted: 15 January 2014 at 2:10pm
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Quick line art of what I've got in mind.
Update: Still need to work on my shading, color choice and all that stuff, but I'm getting there slowly ! 
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Posted By: CELS
Date Posted: 15 January 2014 at 2:17pm
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Nice, Kaishido :)
@Mrmo Tarius: I much prefer the Cthulhu monsters in your last version, and the way you've illustrated that a monster has spotted the player. I don't quite understand how that game would work, but it looks very pretty. @ Muxaun: That looks awesome. Loving the light rays in the background. I hope you do finish it. The only thing I'm not thrilled about is the sub. It just doesn't have the horror vibe I would expect from a Lovecraftian game. Personally, I would go for something like this. Or a modern equivalent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Cousteau#Legacy |
Posted By: a3um
Date Posted: 16 January 2014 at 3:18am
more Annoying World mockups:)
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Posted By: Muxaun
Date Posted: 16 January 2014 at 3:25pm
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I was doing backgroud sprites.
And apparently they don't play well when they are put together. 16 colors is not enough ( 
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Posted By: Kaishido
Date Posted: 16 January 2014 at 5:41pm
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I removed some of my useless colors, to put more shades... still a lot of work to put in it.
Update: Added some details. 
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Posted By: CELS
Date Posted: 16 January 2014 at 10:41pm
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Looking good :)
@Kaishido: A few thoughts: - Is the player character firing a lemon? Just checking. - The ground texture is very noisy. Try to make the grass leaves bigger, more pronounced. And of course, you're cheating a bit by having the boots the same colours as the grass, yet off the ground :) - Your player character seems to have a distinct lack of bones! His legs look like they're made of rubber, they're very bendy and they don't have normal proportions. He also has massive ankles with tiny feet. - This piece would benefit massively from more realistic mountain shapes, I think. Or very weird mountain shapes, but with more detail. |
Posted By: a3um
Date Posted: 17 January 2014 at 12:58am
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@Muxaun - regarding the color count issue - you probably have to reconsider your palette. Currently, your background has very high contrast (and probably too dark) and the whole environment uses too many colors. I'd drop the contrast on everything except sprites and go for about 6-8 colors for the environment:) - the rest goes for sprites/HUD. Also I think you should separate sprites from the environment and each other by shifting their hue. Keep it up! This has a lot of potential:)
Also, I really recommend you to study some of the http://www.pixeljoint.com/p/4343.htm - vierbit's mockups They have great details and exceptional color usage (also very low color count) |
Posted By: Shinobody
Date Posted: 17 January 2014 at 2:50am
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So I guess this is my first post here...
For the theme, I decided to go with a a)"cinematic platformer" in vein of Flashback, Another World or Blackthorne because main characters in them are usually quite fragile, which nicely fits with Lovecraft's view that humanity is frail and insignificant; b) Shadow over Innsmouth as Lovecraftian basis because it's easy to adapt as videogame and c)one handed African American hobo with dreadlocks, Colt and a saber, "Jebediah Brown", as a protagonist because why not. 
Progress: sketch + player character sprite. Palette used is DawnBringer's 16 colors. (wait, is it allowed to use other people's palettes in Weekly Challenges? I'm new here so I have no idea... I hope it's okay.) |
Posted By: CELS
Date Posted: 17 January 2014 at 3:01am
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@Shinobody: Fantastic idea, very well hatched. Looking forward to seeing how you do the locals.
Yeah, you can use the DB palette, or any other palette. |
Posted By: Kaishido
Date Posted: 17 January 2014 at 5:19am
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@CELS: Thank you for the advice :) Gonna work on it some more! (and yeah, they're lemons xD )
*update* Still not there yet, but some progress. I suck at textures, it's crazy. Any advice on those? 
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Posted By: Muxaun
Date Posted: 17 January 2014 at 1:48pm
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Originally posted by a3um
@Muxaun - regarding the color count issue - you probably have to reconsider your palette. Currently, your background has very high contrast (and probably too dark) and the whole environment uses too many colors. I'd drop the contrast on everything except sprites and go for about 6-8 colors for the environment:) - the rest goes for sprites/HUD. Also I think you should separate sprites from the environment and each other by shifting their hue. Keep it up! This has a lot of potential:) Also, I really recommend you to study some of the http://www.pixeljoint.com/p/4343.htm - vierbit's mockups They have great details and exceptional color usage (also very low color count) Yeah I have been studying verbit's pieces a lot, but I don't get how he does it. For me it is like magic. WIP3: I am mostly trying to optimize the palette. Time is running out and I am not yet pleased with how it looks. 
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Posted By: skittle
Date Posted: 17 January 2014 at 4:02pm
| @Muxaun everything looks great, especially the backround. The only think that doesn't look right is the sand. But man... that backround is pretty sweet. |
Posted By: CELS
Date Posted: 17 January 2014 at 5:01pm
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@ Kaishido: My advice would be to look at other mockups on PixelJoint and see how they did the grass. Most people paint the ground like a thick layer of dirt covered by a thin blanket of grass, seen from a strict side view, like in the SEGA game Sonic the Hedgehog. Right now we're seeing a broad field of grass from above, which is possible, but you may have more difficulties finding a good reference that you can learn from. Nice work on the legs though.
@Muxaun: Your color RGB 69, 134,132 can probably be replaced by your 68, 140, 122. Or vice versa. I don't think the background suffers much if they are merged. That puts you at 12 colors, with 4 colors to make the submarine stand out and fashion a simple HUD. Easy. The new sub is great too, btw. |
Posted By: Muxaun
Date Posted: 18 January 2014 at 11:01am
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@ADrawingMan, CELS, a3um: thanks guys for your feedback.
So I redid the sand - made some modular decorations. 
Regarding colors: I wanted the layers to look distinct. That's why I used greener color for second layer. I went even further and made BG more blueish. Here's current state. 
I guess I'll have to make more objects, add some tentacles, add HUD. |
Posted By: Dewclaw
Date Posted: 18 January 2014 at 12:31pm
Just got this done. :D Shoggoth Shuffle!! |
Posted By: Mino
Date Posted: 19 January 2014 at 10:08pm
 yet another last minute entry - . -;
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