The background is beautiful. Setting is great, maybe an easier way to see the health better. The chick in the bikini is cool aswell, but doesn't look in place amongst skeletons and dungeons, but not saying there is anything wrong with that, it's great. Maybe work on a different way to shade her.

Great background. I suggest making dark outlines for them. Right now it's too light.

Awesome, you're still working on this!

A few nitpicks about your mockup-
On the background wall, the shadows from the stairs seem a bit too blocky. IF you note, they're basically giant rectangles coming down, while the stairs above them disappear in a diagonal direction. It looks a bit odd.

The flame in the back also looks a bit fake in the midst of the rest of the environment. This may be due to the excessive reflection on the statue. At first, it even had me to the point of thinking that the statue was a clawed limb pointing straight up with a ball of flame floating over it, but upon zooming in, I see that's very wrong. You might just tone down the saturation of the reflection, that may work.

Other than that, not much I can say. You capture the feel of the environment very well, and the detail is great.


Oh, what's with the rogue red pixels in the bricks? (the bottom of the flat elevated floor, just down and left of the statue)

Really awesome background going. :) I think the light effect on the latern up top looks a bit strange though. I'm not sure what's wrong with it but it looks odd. Maybe you should put the lighting effects behind the light fixture (of sorts) rather than in frount?

Thanks for the Comments on the Background, but those where currently not really the Topic :3. As for the Lack of Texture on the larger Bricks, I currently got only two different Paterns, each 48x48 pixel big, so its kinda hard to break up the monotony.

@Dennis Busch:
You might be right, she seems to be to bright, that might be the problem. But the next problem might be, unlike an typical Castlevania Game, in this game some Stages might be a lot lighter then a typical Dungeon.

@Grindie:
Dark outlines might solve the Problems, but actually I wanted to get rid of them. Hmm... Castlevania Games work without dark outlines pretty well, but their characters seem darker then mine, and so do all of their backgrounds. Maybe its worth a try.

cool enemy, but her leg seems weird. It's not moving the same way as her body.

I thought it might be nice if her leg moves up and down a little bit. But I made her animation move up and down in the same way afterwards. Maybe that was a mistake. If she "stands still" it kinda looks like this

 

Edited by Shoba - 25 July 2006 at 12:15am

I agree.. Overall, the animation and sprite is rather impressive.. as the project. Looking quite good in my eyes..

You do now know that you're going to have to wack a zombie in their now

don't make the leg bob more than the rest of the body. the only thing you could maybe do was do something on the detail level like her feet flaw things curl inward and outward. ya know, detail.

Definately looks better, but you've still got the leg and chest moving oddly, I'd stop that.

Also, looking at it now, the face should have more detail like the body. 

oooh, okie doke. Maybe some slight shading would make it look more like a mask and less like an unfinished graphic.

Shoba: awsome tiles man, i love the colors. As for the fur, i think you'd be better off just shading it like the girl. iow not too much detail. sometimes less is more.

just my 2 cents.

Waaaw...I really like what you're doing. keep it up !

How is the game coded ?

You might be right Morgan, I suppose it looks more feminine this way. I suppose its allso a good Idea to shade the Cat like the girl ~ which means less work for me :3.

Anyway, the mugshots are currently in development, but nothing to different to show them now, whats kinda new is this little lady:

I still like it and I do care =). But you haven't answered my question ^^

Her leg seems weirdly place in the beginning frame... seems twisted. I'd just put it flat down.

i know, imageready really pissed me of when i was making sprites yesterday.

as for her run, kinda looks like she has something up her ass...  i cant pinpoint what is wrong, but something makes it just seem awkward.  otherwise that is ace