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Title:	SingSong
Pixel Artist:	daniel64 (Level 2 Flatfoot :: 672 points)
Posted:	12/20/2009 21:07
Palette:	27 colors
Statistics:	7 comments 2 faves 0 avatars
This is a game were lil'angels are attracted to your beautiful singing, or your catchy tail rattling. As things progress you can toot a horn and shake your tail. Also new characters will show up to beat a drum and dance. I wanted to show a lil'demon with glyph wings, but the song meters took up all the room. update: I changed the song meters' layout, with a positive or negative lil'face corresponding to the position of the related meter. This is determined by a rock/paper/scissors method where red beats green, green beats blue, blue beats red. The idea is winning faces attract lil'angels (eventually larger ones) and monotonous riffs (no faces) attract lil'demons (eventually larger ones) The song meters roll left to right, letting you determine the next (red, blue or green) in the left circle. The meters are(top to bottom): melody (horns, flutes, whistles, guitars?) lyrics (voice) percussion (rattle, tambourine) dance bass (drum, what else?) update: The rocks paper scissors thing was not going to work, so now the attracting of lil'angels is based on color synch, and attracting lil'demons is based on monotony. Scare the lil'demons with discord. Also added levels to the instrument meter, red is equivalent to down, blue to up, green to level. If you are at the top of the meter, you cant play blue, etc.

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daniel64 (Level 2 Flatfoot) @ 12/25/2009 22:25

ok, 27 colors.

onek (Level 6 Hitman) @ 12/24/2009 05:23

the c64 only had widepixels in multicolor mode, which allows 3colors per 4x8px tile and 1 global bg color... but i didnt concider that in my edit... yes it was a fixed 16 color palette... one of the best digital palettes that there is imo

daniel64 (Level 2 Flatfoot) @ 12/23/2009 21:17

Thanks onek ! I started trying to reduce the colors and dropped 8... I am just having trouble giving up those blues. I fooled around with the woman's legs and made her stand on more of a horizontal. The idea is the lil guys on right will troop across to the left, so they need room ~ and also the idea is there will be possbly two more characters in that left area.

Also I got inolved with the bars and icons. I am thinking of dropping the playr meters and replacing with chord/dischord meter and a exciting/monotonous meter, but what kind of icon to use -

I also added a little shading to the woman, but trying not to blow the silhouette look. Thanks for the input. C64 had wide pixels? Was it a fixed palette?

onek (Level 6 Hitman) @ 12/23/2009 03:26

since i like to do edits and think that this piece has lots of room for improvement i made a dirty edit of it...

my main issue is the perspective.. i think the characters should be aligned on a straight line, otherwise the woman looks way too big... also u should try to work on ur palette, 46 colors are a lot and many of them arent needed because their difference is subtle...in pixel art color conservation is essential, and also alot of fun ;D...

heres the edit: http://i992.photobucket.com/albums/af45/oooonek/singsong.gif

steps : #1 original - #2 reduced colors - #3 composition/ shading - #4 C64 palette / stretched/ widepixels

i decided to go with the wide pixels since i think the picture looks a little stretched upwards otherwise, also it suits the C64 palette and the overall vintage look....

onek (Level 6 Hitman) @ 12/22/2009 09:11

somehow this has a rly strange vintage-esque look... donno exactly why...its flatness and the perspective issues make it look a bit like those antique egyptian illustrations... i think shading and technique stuff (jaggyness, color count etc) could be improved, but anyhow... i kinda like this...

daniel64 (Level 2 Flatfoot) @ 12/22/2009 07:47

Thanks! Too funny, I thought is might be 'too trendy' since it had a musical theme, or for that matter angels and demons...

A.B. Lazer (Level 3 Private Eye) @ 12/22/2009 06:00

To say that it's weird is an understatement. But seems that it was done with care and it looks good. I voted 'yes'.

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