When the Gameboy challenge was running my original idea was to make a Dali platformer since this painting has always looked like a platformer to me. Its even got a blue platform in it. Did not work well with GB color restriction so full color it is. Can't get this idea out of my head so I'm going for it. GBA-SP.





This is GBA-SP.
All c+c welcome

Might make this a whole series of various paintings/artists with different platforms. I'm already envisioning a top-down Picasso SHMUP.

I can't think of main weapon for SirReel, the hero, based on Dali himself. A paintbrush seems lame :|

Awesome! Cant wait to see the finished thing.
I think paintbrush works. But maybe another thing people use to paint? I donno.

the slingshot is a nice idea... i'd just love to play dali... errr... sir reel (nice wordplay btw ^^)...
but i wouldn't completely kick the paintbrush even though it really is a bit obvious... maybe you can use it as somekinda "smartbomb" where sir reel just dashes around the screen and does... uhm ... something with it ^^
those cannons would be cool as static objects where you have to shoot a load of monsters... with some weird cannonballs... or as somekinda upgrade for the slingshot...
just can't think of a way to implement the boobies ;-)


Edited by eldiabolito - 22 June 2009 at 1:45pm

eggs=coins idea is great, imo

That's not actually a bad idea to have the eggs cracked open. Maybe something should come out of it? A giant hand maybe?

The cross seems totally out of place to me. I'm down with the pillowshading in this case (I swear Castlevania did the same thing), it's just that it doesn't really jibe with the softness of the rest of the stuff, and it looks nothing like Dali's crosses anyway.

I'm opposed to the blue platforms for the same reason. They were better in the last edit. Soft, soft.

Mr. Reel should use his moustache like a whip, much like Earthworm Jim did with, well, his whole body. May not actually make sense in a still mockup though. The dowsing rods used as support structures always stick in my head when I look at Dali's stuff, but I never ever associate them with slingshots. I doubt anyone would make the connection, imaginative though it is :D

The sky and the clocks look great :D. But some issues:

Dali and floating platform lack detail in comparison to other things.

It would be better to have health seperated from the other icons; it is extremely important to know your health at any given time. If it's buried between other icons then it becomes harder to see immediately. Top left is always a good health location.

I think, even though lame, the paintbrush makes sense. Those prong things he used in his paintings weren't slingshots, so it becomes a weapon which makes no sense. Maybe try making the paintbrush more interesting, you could even have a painting palette as a shield etc... Perhaps even give him the ability to cast some kind of magic, but I personally think the sling shot is a bit odd.

The ground shouldn't be that flat, look at his stuff. A lot of his grounds are very organic and/or rocky.

Also, what's with the banding all over the creature =/

A,B or C for the palette/paintbrush weapon, 3rd one is a tube of paint.

Nothing on the ABC?

Too many faces?

You are right. Next update will have smaller eggs, I'm gonna go lay them now. ^.^

Like the size of the egg on the menu, you think?


Edited by jalonso - 25 June 2009 at 6:41pm

These are awesome.

However, I am convinced that the slingshot-stick should just be a Stick. However, since the stick likes to hold things it could be a tool of sorts, or something that lifts enemies off the ground and immobilizes them.



or he could hit things with it. Cuz its a stick. ;)

This is amazing!  Awesome job!

Cool stuff JaL

that log bridge doesnt really look like logs to me...

@BBB0280, I didn't think of them as logs but I get your point.

92 colors down to 52 \o/

The elephant boss' legs are horrible...what do I do???

I don't like the new elephant at all. That's my favorite Dali piece, and I'll be crushed if you don't use the long spindly legs.

But enough being dramatic and unhelpful! The only thing I can come up with is to maybe change the boss stage altogether to use a darker bg, thus making the aliasing less harsh. Lame, I know. sigh, what an annoying problem...

I tried to anti alias the legs, but it only seemed to make them blurry:




Edited by AtomicMushroom - 27 June 2009 at 10:53pm

atm I think that the (spindly) legs just look like a normal elephant on crutches whereas - judging by the horse - in the painting it's more like real but extremely extended musculature... with several more joints than normal... Bones don't bend so straighter lines which are maybe even a little thinner could avoid jaggies to some extent.

I think with the elephant legs you just need to make it look less like normal legs on stilts (like someone said earlier) and more like really long legs just by taking the skin color down into the lower leg parts.  Heres a really crude edit but you get the point

anyways this whole thing is awesome.

Also in a lot of Dali's works I remember seeing ants alot, I think they are supposed to resemble something too. Used to have a whole book on Dali, not sure where it is now though.
Everything looks really great so far


Edited by BK! - 28 June 2009 at 6:12pm

are you actually going to make this a game?

Sounds good.

And maybe you could fit ants somewhere on the title screen?