@Limes: Yeah, I see what you mean, I was trying for something a bit closer to the style of the artist who made the character for this one so it ended up a little different.

@Limes: Ah, why's that? I thought the original had a lot of redundant colors and the shading always felt a bit off.

@DragonMarc: I had been thinking about having one long log and having small chunks small off, but I also wanted to make it obvious to the player how much they're gaining or losing from pickups and being hit by enemies.

I had thought about a panel behind the HUD too, similar to something like Link's Awakening, but I'm sure about it yet.

Edit: I've updated the HUD a bit, I'm planning to work on it a bit more but I think it's looking better.

Yeah, the logs function as your fuel so you need to collect more to keep your fire going, it works as your time/health so it slowly goes down over time or when you get hit.

@Pheno: Thanks for the tips! :) I was thinking of adding some extra details like grass and plants once I get some more gameplay stuff sorted out.

About the HUD, I'll try a few things to split it from the background a bit more and see what I can come up with, thanks for the suggestions you guys. :D

 Thanks :D

Thanks :)

I saw another person who posted something similar and they linked to the sprites too so I think I'll take the sprites out of the image and link them instead.

Thanks for compliment. :)

I started out with the gameboy style pallete but I actually almost changed it so that each game would have a palette based on a prominent color from the main character. I thought that might a bit distracting though so I ended up keeping them all the same.

Very nice, you got them all right!

I hadn't expected anyone to recognize Gimmick! since it's a bit obscure, it happens to be one of my favorite nes games though so when I couldn't think of a well known ninth game right away I decided to add it in. :)

 Glad you guys like it. :)

For some reason I've always liked trying to pack a lot of detail into a small space with pixel art so this was a pretty fun experiment. Also, seven does happen to be Contra x-death.