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CHALLENGE 5/1/2023: Baby Yoda Stories

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Topic: CHALLENGE 5/1/2023: Baby Yoda Stories
Posted By: administrator
Subject: CHALLENGE 5/1/2023: Baby Yoda Stories
Date Posted: 01 May 2023 at 12:36am

CHALLENGE: Baby Yoda Stories

"Star Wars: Yoda Stories" is a game released on PC in 1997. It was a simple but lovely desktop game offering short playthroughs of random missions given to Luke by Master Yoda during the Dagobah training. It included visiting various planets of ice, forest and desert biomes, and meeting many OT characters, fighting enemies like stormtroopers and solving puzzles.

This week we are going to try to emulate the style of Yoda Stories in a mockup of an imaginary Star Wars game which could be a DLC or a sequel/prequel to Yoda Stories or a different game made in the same engine, or just a very similar one.

Make a mockup of a game that looks like Yoda Stories and is based on events and characters from any Star Wars movie, series, other video games, books, graphic novels.

Rules:

1) Canvas = 288x288 resolution and 32x32 tile grid (9x9 tiles).

2) Top down perspective.

3) Any Star Wars character as protagonist.

4) At least one tile featuring Star Wars character NPC, enemy, animal, monster, droid, wehicle, item, or piece of environment, or any recognisable thing.

5) Items, animals, wehicles, monsters etc. can be bigger than one tile, but must allign with the grid.

6) Dialogue boxes are allowed.


Actual tileset and sprites from the game can be found https://www.spriters-resource.com/pc_computer/yodastories/ - here or http:// https://imgur.com/tcFHs14 - here . Use them for referrence or inspiration.


Example screenshots from the game:

https://i.imgur.com/uNFiYIl.png


Canvas Size - exactly 288x288.
Colours - unrestricted.
Transparency - no.
Animation - no.
 

CHALLENGE RULES

  • Participants have until this upcoming Sunday at midnight (12AM Pacific) to /pixels/submit_icons.asp'>submit their entry (strict). Don't forget to check the 'Submit to weekly challenge' checkbox.
  • Only new pixels allowed.
  • Open to all members.
  • Posting WIPs in this thread or in new threads in the /forum/forum_topics.asp?FID=8'>WIP section is highly encouraged, but ONLY SUBMIT YOUR FINAL ART.

CHALLENGE JUDGING

  • Every Sunday at midnight (12AM Pacific) the previous week's entries are judged.
  • Every week a new voting poll will be posted for previous week's entries.
  • Winner announced the following week.

CHALLENGE PRIZES/GOODIES

  • Top three finishers will receive an award displayed in your PJ gallery profile for all to see and envy.
  • Top finisher gets to suggest a future week's challenge. If you're a winner and you wish to submit your idea, send a message to https://pixeljoint.com/p/27498.htm' target='_blank'>Gecimen.
  • 'Participation' ribbons will be given for all who enter.
  • No matter what happens you get challenged :)

CHALLENGE VOTING

/pixels/poll.asp?id=1850' name='vote' target='_blank'>Vote now for your favorite pixelart in this week's challenge!

CHALLENGE AWARDS

The Baby Yoda Stories pixel art challenge is complete and we have three new champions. This week's challenge awards go to the following pieces:

/pixelart/152179.htm' target='_blank' class='winner1'>Aldhani by /p/19763.htm' target='_blank'>slym
/pixelart/152232.htm' target='_blank' class='winner2'>WC - Star Wars Rebels Stories by /p/132391.htm' target='_blank'>Perigi
/pixelart/152229.htm' target='_blank' class='winner3'>Din & Yoda by /p/253036.htm' target='_blank'>dinpixels


Thanks so much to all who took the time to vote and participate in the challenge!

/pixelart/152225.htm' target='_blank' class='winnerx'>Dark Forces Stories by /p/186610.htm' target='_blank'>gawrone


Replies:
Posted By: dodingo
Date Posted: 02 May 2023 at 3:35pm
I hate to be pedantic on my very first post, but I think that's called 3/4 perspective.

Posted By: gawrone
Date Posted: 03 May 2023 at 5:40am
Thank you for your comment, but if one would like to be truly pedantic, this is neither ;)

In actual 3/4 view, top and front of the objects are experiencing a specific foreshortening, while in Yoda Stories most of flat squares remain squares, so it resembles more something like military projection. But the game is not consistent about it at all, and some objects have their tops foreshortened while others do not, when it is convenient for pixel art ease, for fitting the tile or for readability.

I noticed that in game dev context top-down and 3/4 are often used interchangeably or 3/4 as a specific example of many different dop-down views. Top down can be used as a vague term for any game we see from the above. But if we would want to use it precisely, how should we? Only to something like Binding of Isaac? Or only like here on the bottom right:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_projection#/media/File:Graphical_projection_comparison.png

(which actually also looks similar to YS).

Posted By: dodingo
Date Posted: 03 May 2023 at 10:21am
That's actually a good point; it's been a while and I'd forgotten how Yoda Stories handles both ;)

To be honest, I've almost always seen this perspective referred to as 3/4 or bird's eye view (though the latter seems to have fallen out of favor). Whereas top down, I'd sooner associate it with something like Team17's https://www.mobygames.com/game/80252/alien-breed/screenshots/ - Alien Breed .

Edit: I'll be pedantic against myself though, by pointing out that wasn't my actual first post on the forums; I'd forgotten I had posted before


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