A quick dump of stuff I've been doing (may have posted some of this before).

Player sprites:

Redone the run animation (thrusters need to be re-done and hands added, but I'm happy with the overall motion)


Dashing, damage and jumping sprites (all playing really fast for some reason)


Enemies:

A basic enemy mook. Still need to do walk cycles for this one.


Complete with different death states depending on how you kill it.


Projectiles/Misc effects

A missile, pretty standard tbh


Some explosion effects (conventional and antimatter)



Environments:

Couple of foreground elements for Mission 1




Some more fiddling of that space station




And finally, I wouldn't normally post anything this WIP, however it's a weird perspective that I've never tried before, and I would rather get it right first time round.

Larry Niven called. He wants his ringworld back.


Still not sure whether the landscape works (mostly the mid-ground is the problem, not used to drawing landscapes on a concave surface) and how to handle the sky. I've roughed out the atmosphere but I'm still not really sure where to go with it.

Tried to salvage old attack animation.

I like the actual pixelling in this mockup, but I feel it has some readability issues.

I had trouble spotting the character because they blend into the background and because all the visually interesting stuff is off to the sides where the player should probably not be looking. Try to keep the non-playable areas lower-detail (or at least low-contrast) so that they're not distracting.

The way you've set the floors and ceilings apart from the walls looks very nice and it's very clear. Combined with lower-contrast/simpler walls it should work very well.

Lastly, I feel like the neutral background wall feels mismatched from the rest of the level. I think giving it a blue or orange hue would make it fit better with the rest of the level. Keeping the saturation low and the contrast low would help it still be clearly distinct from the midground walls.
I think there's merit to a completely grey look, but I feel like that's something you should commit more fully to, e.g. an entire level that's all greyscale, save perhaps for some accent colour.

Made another enemy grunt.

Took a swing at a cityscape

Here is a colour edit that I think addresses the readability issue while keeping the "look":

I put the background layers into more of a haze, darkened all the windows to orange, and used a narrower range of the purple-yellow gradient for the sky, so that it could have less contrast while still keeping the same number of bands. I think the lines in the sky work very well with the style of this, but just had too much contrast and thus stood out more than they should.

As cool as those signs may be, they again distract from the foreground (as advertisement tends to do...)

I like the bunny-ears, the new eye shape, and the more solid highlight on the face. However, I think the face looked more interesting and had a clearer shape in the old version. In addition, the new big portraits have banding around the "mouth" and the chin tangents with the frame.