"So, captain Vanhatupa, let's go over this story one more time before I write the official report."
"You are saying that today, at noon, at or about 12:30, while patrolling over the Coast of Finland, you encountered a hostile flying robot. It was green, had red eyes and a big rectangular mouth opening. The shape of the robot was "sort of spherical", and it had two laser turrets on both sides, and it's underside contained a levitation machine of some sort. When the robot first appeared, it shouted "HAA!", and your Hornet's radar screen displayed the text "Mister Feeling". After this the robot attacked you, firing plasma bolts, and during this attack funny sounds came from the robots mouth. According to your words these sounds were like "electronical gurgling from some old C64 game", and also you say that at one point you heard music, which you described as "Zool - World 1". You engaged the robot, and it shot you down after 30 seconds of dogfighting."
"Is all of this correct captain?"
"Yes sir."
"Thank you captain. Dismissed."
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In this piece I decided to experiment with an aerial combat scene, while keeping the color count in control...originally I aimed at 16 colors but ended up using 19.
I got some inspiration from the loading screen of the Amiga game Carrier Command, which you can see here:
http://hol.abime.net/2936/screenshot
I copied half of the palette from that picture (reds, blues and greys), and also got some ideas on how to make the sea and the one-color clouds.
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