All new sprites and new purple poop.
@Ninja,
1- remade
2- hehe, it does. Fixed?
3- sunlight tower
4- levels are not very random at all. They all correspond to the cane/staff and frame 2 will be the boss dialog screen so that's a high number.
5- Added the Botany badge
6- Showing its a tiny Mona Lisa painting :p
7- Making ground again. I hate all grounds >:(
8- It is an optical illusion on your part but I tweaked it.



Edited by jalonso - 17 March 2010 at 6:16pm

@Ninja, on the list for next update, thx :)

New screen.
This is the big boss, Lorenzo Medici. Leonardo wrote in one of his journals that this guy 'made him and then destroyed him'... a boss, if ever there was one. Didn't even try to make him look like the paintings cuz he looks different in both and other than having a big nose, it doesn't matter.



Edited by jalonso - 18 March 2010 at 9:45am

hehe. Better?

I like the portrait of Medici, and didn't see a milk moustache (heehee), but his expression/face has more the look of a pirate or gangster than a haughty, wicked aristocrat, and his clothing reads more as simple merchant than resplendent lord. Medici's nose is rather large and aquiline, but it's narrower than you've depicted it here, which might be contributing to the gangster vs. nobleman look.
'Course, if ya want him to be a buffoon (he's even holding something that looks like the classic vulgar ruler's prop of gnawed-on turkey leg!), that's fine, too!

You're right about the clothing, of course - maybe it just wasn't royal red enough for me - but that's a clever thing with the buttons.

Hey it looks wonderful! I would say if you still wanted (on that nice new face) some of that really cackling-evil look, by having a sneer that the nose can overlap, you could make the tip of his nose a bit longer - which I believe the portrait supports.

I also am glad it was a scroll he's holding - and it looks like one now, except that the top half is a bit too shiny.

You are a one-man, graphics-making machine (maps & sprites & portraits & items & menus & & &) I am truly impressed.

New layout, 3 screens removed for being pointless.
Less 12 colors.
New pointier nose on Medici.
More work on title screen.
Green areas to be re-pixelled from scratch.

Good idea :)

Update

@ kenpokis. I hate making ground tiles and think I fail so thanks :)

@ Those who took the palette from page 1.
Palette now  refined to 77 colors.

This update has 49 less colors \o/
Almost done now since I'm kinda over it.
If you've been seeing something and didn't mention it cuz you thought I would catch it. Now is the time to say so.



Edited by jalonso - 22 March 2010 at 4:58pm

Good catch! I truly hate this 'half this-half that' perspective. It so confuserating.

thx ninja I'll do that :)

Lots of tweaks, adjustment, color changes, further palette unification, new water and pixels here and there 9.9

This is epic! 8D

only crit i have is the text box on the medici one, the scene visible through the box doesn't match mainly a corner issue, one would expect the corners to be there but in the text box it seems like the room continues downward,
other than that everything looks really nice!

the new optimized palette is awesome too \o/ definitely an awesome portfolio piece, and i would so play that if it was ever released @_@ looks better than some of the commercial games around imo,

and it would be at home on a DS or GBA (hard to actually make for because of strict licensing) or SNES ,

there are games being released on older consoles around like this indie Genesis/Megadrive game Pier Solar where they actually manage to purchase blank carts and ship the game commercially well its not shipped yet but you get what i mean, not sure if it is more difficult to release a game on the SNES without getting in trouble from nintendo they always tend to have some fairly annoying licensing situations back then and now.

even just good ol' PC and if you did find someone committed enough to program it that would be awesome, you could always try and market to a developer, or try finding a team and try get the licensing fee aside and make an iPhone App that would sell pretty well me thinks. i want to see a fully fledged playable 100% bonafide game made from your art because you got an insane amount skill/talent and I among most everyone else wants to play them... and if not well we can always dream~

I only have one point of critique since it's been bothering me (just read the whole topic).

What's with the 3rd item on the velvet (2nd screen)?

Is it supposed to be an impression? An item? Because to me it seems like a combination of both. If it's an impression, make it an impression. It just looks like a purple item on the velvet.

i definitly like the old one better, tho, ur right about the singel page thing... why not add a few underneath?... anyways, the shading and the colors on the new one rly look like plastic, with isnt rly suited i guess... i still dont like the emblem too much, there hasnt changed anything anyway... i think i would be nice to actually do something more realistic, like a metal shield or stuff, maybe leaning back perspectively since the left part looks a bit flat and empty still , i know ur going for simplicity but yeah... "the davinci journals" - text needs aa badly but i think thats wip

Eh, does that mean we don't get to see it before the gallery? (so totally wasn't hoping for another chance to rip into it - honest!)

Oh no, please don't get tired of it yet!

Now I can finally fav it :D

I'm a pretty average programmer and the fun fact for the day is: tile based programming is much harder than platformer programming. I'll make a little poo game for you with pixel art just so you can see. Might take a while to do the pixel art though. Only good with pencil mediums because I'm an animation student. I only use the wacom to trace/clean my line art.