8 Bit Arena
Printed From: Pixel Joint
Category: Pixel Art
Forum Name: Collaborations/Challenges
Forum Discription: Submit pixel art project ideas/templates or contribute to an existing pixel art collaboration.
URL: https://pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=744
Printed Date: 10 September 2025 at 2:06am
Topic: 8 Bit Arena
Posted By: Rynov
Subject: 8 Bit Arena
Date Posted: 19 August 2005 at 9:51pm
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Ok...so here's what's goin' down... Beholden! I shall refer to this picture and the stuff in it often in the following paragraphs.  (Disregard
the grey on Turborang, he is awsome enough to not use all his colors I
guess. Feel free to do the same.)Ok, so here are the rules! You are making the hero of some imaginary NES game, left to your discretion. You can either use the base models or create one of your own. Feel free to do any pose you want, even showing off your attacks! Colors: You may select three colors, black and white are freebies, transparency doesn't count as a color.  Image must be a Gif, for that authentic NES feel!! Names are optional, but it may help you win... ----------------------- By the end of the month, or longer if everyone wants it, everyone will vote for their favorite characters of each category... 1. Retro rating: Based on all the glorious fads of the eighties, like ninjas and laser swords! An example of something non-retro would be a character based on modern day fads and ideals. 2. Color usage: It can be quite tricky using your limited colors to full effect! 3. And originality! Let the battle commence! ------------- Shine my shoes, infidel! http://www.kamikazerocket.deviantart.com - http://www.kamikazerocket.deviantart.com |
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Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 20 August 2005 at 5:42am
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*looks at his avvy..* muhahaha :P ------------- ▄▄█ ▄▄█ ▄█▄ ▄█▄ |
Posted By: nvision
Date Posted: 20 August 2005 at 6:23am
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Behold, the first fearsome competitor...the half-blood slayer, Vampiros!
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Posted By: Shark
Date Posted: 20 August 2005 at 7:28am
| this is a cool idea |
Posted By: Rynov
Date Posted: 20 August 2005 at 11:03am
Behold! I call him...Fight-knight!  ------------- Shine my shoes, infidel! http://www.kamikazerocket.deviantart.com - http://www.kamikazerocket.deviantart.com |
Posted By: Vidd
Date Posted: 20 August 2005 at 12:26pm
 Robot. :O Red, light red, yellow, white, black, transparent colour. EDIT:  |
Posted By: TACW
Date Posted: 20 August 2005 at 4:36pm
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Hmm I might give it a try.. Is there a size we have to follow. Sorry just woke up and I am a bit fuzzy, rough night lastnight lol.. ------------- http://hometown.aol.com/boomerangproduct/myhomepage/index.html"> 
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Posted By: Di0xygen
Date Posted: 22 August 2005 at 4:44pm
 --- (Old)--- (New) [3 colors + Black and white ] (Dragon Suits)-- Those soldiers are heavyly armored yet very mobile. Armed with ion rifle, they perform chirugical operations in enemy bases and low altitude corvettes. They are strong against Troll suits but weak against Griffon suits. |
Posted By: Citizen_Insane
Date Posted: 22 August 2005 at 6:14pm
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looks like everybody's taking advantage of the one color grace option. well, here's mine:
3 colors plus trans, baby Reminds me of the ol' rom hacking days... haha |
Posted By: Wannahlakujuu
Date Posted: 22 August 2005 at 6:49pm
| That is good for 3 colors, quite good indeed |
Posted By: Citizen_Insane
Date Posted: 22 August 2005 at 8:24pm
| haha, thanks.. I think everyone should be shooting for three colors. |
Posted By: Rynov
Date Posted: 23 August 2005 at 12:23am
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Hmm...very confusing...what's the pattern? Megaman has 5 colors. Black,
white, blue, other blue, and tan. Definately feel free to use less for
a better retro rating or color usage rating. ------------- Shine my shoes, infidel! http://www.kamikazerocket.deviantart.com - http://www.kamikazerocket.deviantart.com |
Posted By: Citizen_Insane
Date Posted: 23 August 2005 at 12:39am
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that's because they were clever when they made mega man. All the sprites in that game were layed out in an 8x8 grid (all the sprites in any NES game were layed out as 8x8 tiles, actually), and each tile could have a certain pallet index assigned to it. Megaman's body was a completely different sprite than his face, and they both used completely different palletes. (I'm no programmer, so my terms might be wrong)
see? it's good to know your roots, sometimes..
by the way.. that's a shot from megaman 2, using tile layer pro. |
Posted By: jujucece
Date Posted: 23 August 2005 at 4:09am
My contribution : The Terrible Psykedelic Octopus ------------- Jujucece |
Posted By: Vidd
Date Posted: 23 August 2005 at 5:12am
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Originally posted by Citizen_Insane roms are illegal unless you own the original game. I own megaman 2, so no worries. Check out Nintendo's corporate site and they'll tell you that ROMs in
any form are illegal. It says in the back of every game manual that it
is illegal to make "backup copies" of the games, which is what ROMs are
sometimes said to be. There is nothing that makes creating them,
possessing them, or distributing them legal. They're never legal to own. |
Posted By: Pawige
Date Posted: 23 August 2005 at 11:57am
Here's mine, he looks best on a dark BG so I left it untransparent. Haven't needed to animate in a while...  It's the Wolfman! The evil Doctor Radical kidnapped his girlfriend, and he transformed into a muscular wolf-man to rescue her! 4 colors, not including the BG, didn't use black or white, but I did pull a Megaman kinda thing and added his red shorts on another layer, improving the look a lot. It all fits within a 40x32 box. Edit: Just had to add Doctor Rad as well. (Went slightly overkill on his animation, but at least he's only 3 colors :P) |
Posted By: Wannahlakujuu
Date Posted: 23 August 2005 at 12:05pm
Nice, I like it
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Posted By: TACW
Date Posted: 23 August 2005 at 2:23pm
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Ok I guess I am gonna give it a try now. ;) Be back soon. :) ------------- http://hometown.aol.com/boomerangproduct/myhomepage/index.html">
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Posted By: Citizen_Insane
Date Posted: 23 August 2005 at 5:49pm
| well.. once the revolution comes out, I guess we won't even have to worry about that.. |
Posted By: Di0xygen
Date Posted: 23 August 2005 at 7:29pm
 Troll suit -- Heavy and versatile land suit. This is the most common used suit. Its used in most any land combat situation. Its altho very weak against any flying suits such as the dragon suit. |
Posted By: Saboteur
Date Posted: 23 August 2005 at 8:54pm
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very what? ------------- "I was minding my own business and walking across a pebbled path, and a Duck started giving me the business." |
Posted By: Citizen_Insane
Date Posted: 23 August 2005 at 10:52pm
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Originally posted by Pawige
Here's mine, he looks best on a dark BG so I left it untransparent. Haven't needed to animate in a while... It's the Wolfman! The evil Doctor Radical kidnapped his girlfriend, and he transformed into a muscular wolf-man to rescue her! 4 colors, not including the BG, didn't use black or white, but I did pull a Megaman kinda thing and added his red shorts on another layer, improving the look a lot. It all fits within a 40x32 box. Edit: Just had to add Doctor Rad as well. (Went slightly overkill on his animation, but at least he's only 3 colors :P)
hey.. that's pretty good :) |
Posted By: Blueberry_pie
Date Posted: 24 August 2005 at 2:16am
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Originally posted by Pawige Yeah, those look awesome! Especially the animations... very NES-like  ------------- |
Posted By: sedgemonkey
Date Posted: 24 August 2005 at 10:31am
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Originally posted by Di0xygen
Troll suit -- Heavy and versatile land suit. This is the most common used suit. Its used in most any land combat situation. Its altho very weak against any flying suits such as the dragon suit. Nice subtle animation. This is more than three colors though eh? Hmmm... might have to counter with a speedy flying scooter type unit. nvision: Nice work on the Greek vampire. |
Posted By: Di0xygen
Date Posted: 24 August 2005 at 12:10pm
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Originally posted by sedgemonkey
Nice subtle animation. This is more than three colors though eh? Hmmm... might have to counter with a speedy flying scooter type unit. Its 3 colors + black and white not one more you can count :P |
Posted By: Citizen_Insane
Date Posted: 24 August 2005 at 12:15pm
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black and white are countable colors |
Posted By: Di0xygen
Date Posted: 24 August 2005 at 12:39pm
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black and white are countable colors You may select three colors, black and white are freebies oh but i completely agree with you on that, but the contest rules specified that black and white were freebies, so i used them :P |
Posted By: Vidd
Date Posted: 24 August 2005 at 12:50pm
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Originally posted by Di0xygen That's awesome! My .gifs always seem so slow when I export them out of ImageReady; would you mind telling me what program you used for this? |
Posted By: Di0xygen
Date Posted: 24 August 2005 at 1:07pm
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Originally posted by Vidd That's awesome! My .gifs always seem so slow when I export them out of ImageReady; would you mind telling me what program you used for this? Jasc Animation shop 3 |
Posted By: Vidd
Date Posted: 24 August 2005 at 1:10pm
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Originally posted by Di0xygen Originally posted by Vidd That's awesome! My .gifs always seem so slow when I export them out of ImageReady; would you mind telling me what program you used for this? Jasc Animation shop 3 Thank you very much. :) |
Posted By: sedgemonkey
Date Posted: 24 August 2005 at 1:41pm
| My apologies about the b/w color thing di0xygen... didn't catch that part of it. |
Posted By: Di0xygen
Date Posted: 24 August 2005 at 3:23pm
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Originally posted by sedgemonkey My apologies about the b/w color thing di0xygen... didn't catch that part of it. no big deal :P |
Posted By: Niss
Date Posted: 26 August 2005 at 6:38am
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Di0xygen: Great GREAT stuff! Pawige: Man they are soo cool. I absolutely adore your colors and the animation. (huh so much praise from me  )nvision: nice, reminds me a bit of sals' stuff. But that's maybe because he did so much vampires... That's a really tempting collab... Sedge isn't that something for you Mr. low-color? |
Posted By: Maestro
Date Posted: 26 August 2005 at 8:19am
I don't have access to my webspace from here, so I'm uploaded this to the joint, I can take it down later: It could be that the animation is by far too long, and I didn't shade the goblin, but oh well. I used three colours including black plus transparency. I also didn't put too much love in the anim, it's mostly copy-paste, sorry for that :( |
Posted By: sedgemonkey
Date Posted: 26 August 2005 at 11:15am
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Maestro: Why would you take this down? It's great stuff... the club looks a little caveman-ish, but the axe slash is really well done. |
Posted By: Maestro
Date Posted: 26 August 2005 at 11:17am
| Thanks, but uh, I dunno. I dunno why I made him raise the club in the first place, just to make his muscles move I think. There's no composition really. |
Posted By: inkspot
Date Posted: 26 August 2005 at 12:03pm
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Ok, here is my entry:
You can guess 3 times who it is on this picture.
Yes, its inkspot, your greatest enemy! Its toxic thick oil type ink what is alive and can form shapes and can lift a gun, as seen.
But well, I am kind of pissed because this animation is pure crap but I messed around like whole hour in Image Ready and canot even edit an imported picture... Whole hour I just inserted pictures what I drew in MS Paint. Image ready is so stupid and useless, thank god I haven't paid for this piece of crap! So, here is the unanimated yhing, for better look:
If someone knows a program what is suitable for making gifs from several drawn pictures, then please tell the name of that program or I will come and crawl into your brain from your ears and nose!
Thank you. |
Posted By: Maestro
Date Posted: 26 August 2005 at 12:55pm
| Love it. |
Posted By: Blueberry_pie
Date Posted: 26 August 2005 at 1:46pm
Here's my entry: the OK-Bot! ...Don't ask. Are you a bad enough dude to save the pre- I mean, face this robot? I think not. No, he's not flipping us off, he's sticking his thumb up  (6 colours: 3 shades of brown, black, white and transparancy) ------------- |
Posted By: fr0st
Date Posted: 26 August 2005 at 8:14pm
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Rawr, been a while since i last submitted summit on this site, something i have come to regret, been recovering from my accident this past week rele, and had comp troubles, but im back baby, *giggles* and so i thought what better way to come back than do a collab, wewt, 3 colors each not including transparent  They are the 8-bit knights of Trog, a most fearsome race of knights, inspired from final fantasy and such like games, :) |
Posted By: Commodore
Date Posted: 30 August 2005 at 3:24am
f**k, it looked better on a background. Not enough contrast. I actually
did it by accident. It wasn't ment to be an 8bit sprite.
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Posted By: drr
Date Posted: 30 September 2005 at 7:11pm
Here's mine, not that great, he's holding a lightsaber if you're
wondering, doesn't have a name really, just my newest character, but
wearing a helmet and colour changed slightly... Could be like a robotic
guard i suppose  EDIT: The original is my avatar now... |
Posted By: Scruffs
Date Posted: 01 October 2005 at 8:08pm
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this looks like fun, i did a caveman (5 colors including transparency) http://www.kazimages.com/"> |
Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 02 October 2005 at 8:07am
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sorry dude, but its black white and 3 colours max ------------- ▄▄█ ▄▄█ ▄█▄ ▄█▄ |
Posted By: Scruffs
Date Posted: 02 October 2005 at 9:26am
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oh, my bad, well a little edit and.... http://www.kazimages.com/"> and this http://www.kazimages.com/"> |
