CHALLENGE: Final Boss

Create a mock up of an original game showing the final boss battle. Just a reminder: As per usual, your entire challenge entry must be made during this week.

Canvas Size - Max 320 x 240.
Colours - Max 32.
Transparency - No.
Animation - No.

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CHALLENGE RULES

• Participants have until this upcoming Sunday at midnight (12AM Pacific) to submit their entry (strict). Don't forget to check the 'Submit to weekly challenge' checkbox.
• Only new pixels allowed.
• Open to all members.
• Posting WIPs in this thread or in new threads in the WIP section is highly encouraged, but ONLY SUBMIT YOUR FINAL ART.

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CHALLENGE JUDGING

• Every Sunday at midnight (12AM Pacific) the previous week's entries are judged.
• Every week a new voting poll will be posted for previous week's entries.
• Winner announced the following week.

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CHALLENGE PRIZES/GOODIES

• Top three finishers will receive an award displayed in your PJ gallery profile for all to see and envy.
• Top finisher gets to call the following week's challenge...sweet.
• 'Participation' ribbons will be given for all who enter.
• No matter what happens you get challenged :)

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CHALLENGE VOTING

Vote now for your favorite pixelart in this week's challenge!

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CHALLENGE AWARDS

The Final Boss pixel art challenge is complete and we have three new champions. This week's challenge awards go to the following pieces:



Thanks so much to all who took the time to vote and participate in the challenge!

I'm very exited for this, and i'm probably going to enter. Hoping to see lots of good entries for this one :D

Heh...This sounds fun :D

FrostedM, Hyperbear: good potential you got there!
Hyperbear: Aku's mouth might do? A cave: you sure didn't choose the easy way...
And, why do you have 'preview' in your avatar?! ;-P

Good catch on my avatar.

Also, I like the Aku mouth idea, but I think this one works better for one with something hanging out.

I made a change of tone from the original

And I know the menu isn't lined up correctly




Edited by hyperbear - 11 August 2009 at 12:34pm

+1,000,000 points for using "metempsychosis".

+10,000,000 for following it up with samsara

This BG is a placeholder, while I didn't have catacombs in mind, I might go with that, should be manageable.

Inphy: That's lookin' pretty solid, but a little bit generic, though i know you're not done.

I'm gettin' there, still working out a better way to same "game over"
Really, any boss is the final boss if you can't get past em.

Either shuriken or sai. Both are equally awesome

Also, I'm nearing completion, here. Still have to do some shading and redo the background, though. The text shouldn't take too long.



Suggestions?

i would go with a kunai with chain. Its very graceful and i think it would work well with a girl.

Heres a few pics

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/heartless20/anime/Samuri%20or%20fighter%20Ninja/guys2002nk.jpg

http://www.kbninjutsu.com/images/kusarigama.gif

Original game? I'm not sure I understand, does it have to actually exist? (like a play station game or something)

this is my submission:

CookieMan Adventures: Candyland
the game is based on a cookie man that has escaped from the "fridge prison" and trying to escape from the candyland.... so he got to the northest spot of the area (almost out) and he met santa...hungry santa!,and he tryed to eat him,but the cookieman have magical powers so he beated him after a couple of hours of trying and he escaped.. but now he's in a bigger trouble,he's in the real world...how will he escape from there? that is saved for "Cookieman Adventures 2: The Real World" Hope you like it  ^ ^

p.s. I wish i could do that game....xD

@ Oren: It's cute, but the gingerbread man could use some AA around his icing, and the font is pretty hard to read.

@Puck: She looks a bit like she's leaning back, it may be easier to do a stationary firing position, so you don't have to worry about how limbs fall on their own, in a relaxed position.

By the way, the most beautiful game ever is Samorost by Amanita Design.
And their next one, Machinarium, looks like it will be even better, from the video previews.
Czechs are good, when it comes to animations.

Sweet looking background Inphy...definitely another +10,000,000 points for you 

Not Finished Yet. still fiddling with the beam and background. Shiny teeth guy vs. Extreme Robot!


What do you think?

I should have made something smaller. I'm not good at this size >.<

Making a background now and edit the boss(a lot(shading, outline...)).

Prustel, your Boss seems like a combination of Haunter and Ghastly, and your player's left thigh doesn't look right with that shading, maybe lighten up the inside of the leg.

Oh I see It thanks!

Its Now basically done. I May Try to make the floor better or something before Sunday. Anything that could be changed or improved?



Edited by tenentenen - 13 August 2009 at 9:00am

I changed the dimensions and changed a few things to make it easier for me, heh. Anyways, I'm almost done, just gotta come up with some more items. Any suggestions/ flaws in the pic?

ok ive advanced a lil bit on the boss. I think it looks fitting for a final huh? thx for the advise on the weapon everyone, ill stick with AtrSix idea (thx btw) The background does everything so hard though X.x hope i can finish this befroe the deadline. Its a really fun challenge!

The 2 im looking foward to the most at the moment are Setzer's and Death-Aurons. Great work guys :), im thinking about joining this one, though ive still got to get a concept worked out.

Commodore 64 rulezzz!!

Great work Mr.Tsuyoshi

[platformer]

Some things I like, some things I don't like. I really wish I could add some kind of texture to the rocks, but I'm not that good :P

Texture to the background seems to be the next thing, although it will only be simple. I also need to actually add the boss and the player which I'm not looking forward to.

The rough idea behind it is that the main character is in a computer game, except he becomes sentient and tries to get out. In the final boss battle, the game designer tries to sabotage the game in order to stop the main character from escaping. I was thinking of adding some 'glitched' tiles to show this, it would be quite an interesting thing to try out.

tenentenen: He's saying that where the rocks meet the floor, the rocks don't seem to have any depth. Open the edit up and the original, and look at the difference.