Does anybody have a mirror of the WIP animated gif? Imageshack nuked it.

Not ZX but Zero actually, my favorite platformer series of all time.

It's not an edit obv, just inspired by the style.

I don't see a lot of love for your work here, so I should note that I think you really did an amazing thing with Open Gunner. Sure, style and rendering is simple, but I imagine it's on purpose so anybody could make new assets. I am currently working on a 'fork' of Open Gunner in a new artstyle using the NES palette. So I wanted to say huge thanks for your work!

Interesting! I never saw that thread in my life, as I don't frequent any C64 forums, nor even played a single C64 game in my life, entire idea of it came from a piece by Vierbit where he made a Metroid C64 "port" - http://pixeljoint.com/pixelart/37247.htm - I simply thought the widepixel aesthetic looked cool and decided to give it a go myself.

The version you posted is definitely more accurate to the original game. If my version was made into an actual playable thing, it'd need to be heavily rebalanced compared to NES original, and it'd probably require serious level design changes to accomodate different hitboxes and jump arcs - but the Lemon64 one could easily keep most of the original design intact. However, I imagine that using single sprites for Batman and enemies could allow my version to get away with more enemies and projectiles on-screen.

Ice is so hard to do in pixel art, but this is actually great! When I see this picture I immediately think of ice, instead of teal glass or blue rocks - as it often ends up looking when people try to pixel ice.

Kudos!

Thank you for critique! I appreciate it and will try to improve in that area! 

Perhaps it was a mistake by the uploader? Like, to enter challenge you just tick a checkbox, easy mistake to make.

I love it for several reason. First, it's technically great art; Second, I love Doom; but most importantly, deciding to draw a Caco using this color palette was a stroke of pure brilliance.

I love Shadowrun, so I'm obligated to love this piece 

So is this mockup for a strategy game? Honestly, both the artwork and the game concept seem amazing and unique.

Um, you MEANT to leave the palette in the top left corner in the final picture?

I'm not gonna be a psychic if I'll guess you like Metal Slug? Looks awesome.

I love how it looks like straight from the SNES. I'm not only talking about color count or size, but style is reminiscent of16-bit era. And design itself is pretty cool, too.

I personally like the stylisation. One thing asking for improvement would be color count possibly - 30 is a bit much, especially as there are only three actual hues (pink skin, green ?scarf?, white hair) - so I'm sure with some dithering it could be easily cut down. Her pose is also a bit stiff.

EDIT: To prove  my point - here's 22 color edit. Biggest change is replacing darkest browns and pure black with single shade of brown, but even leaving pure black alone for improved contrast it'd make 23.