NESsing around FF style.
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Topic: NESsing around FF style.
Posted By: Randommonkies
Subject: NESsing around FF style.
Date Posted: 12 April 2009 at 3:09am
 more final fantasy one inspired sprites. working with NES colours and the black background that was the style of the original game. 3 colours per sprites except for the boss at the top who has one colour swapped for a 4th on two tiles. Probably aiming for about 3 to 4 palette swaps of the same sprite per character. most design elements for the characters I'm pretty happy with but crits are always welcome, mostly looking for opinions on which palettes to choose for my 3 to 4 picks. Also I'll post the wips here until i feel my bad-guy team is complete. I have names for all of them if anyone is curious, lol. |
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Posted By: Metaru
Date Posted: 12 April 2009 at 9:03am
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for a random nickname, you anything but random sir.
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Posted By: Phalcon
Date Posted: 14 April 2009 at 1:47pm
| Hot job. Really nessy. |
Posted By: Randommonkies
Date Posted: 14 April 2009 at 8:27pm
 Added a wizard, (after watching LOTR) and edited the witch. |
Posted By: octavialsilver
Date Posted: 14 April 2009 at 8:34pm
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i love the final fantasy series, and i love these sir. great jorb!
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Posted By: Metaru
Date Posted: 15 April 2009 at 9:15am
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whats with the witch losing shading? ------------- I ate leel's babies |
Posted By: Zeratanus
Date Posted: 15 April 2009 at 10:32am
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That would be the "edited the witch" bit - the less shaded one being the before and the shaded being the edited, im sure. anyway, these are looking pretty sweet :D |
Posted By: Randommonkies
Date Posted: 15 April 2009 at 4:57pm
Updates:  Tweaked the Eel to bring him up to the style of the rest of the team and introduced the Fire Eater class. Added the wizards to the main sheet as well as tweaks to palettes here and there. Also, for no reason at all: introducing Team Purple.  Thought that this was a funny colour scheme. Maybe you enter a cheat code and the game is played with these enemies? just for fun lol. 
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Posted By: Damian
Date Posted: 16 April 2009 at 3:37pm
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Purple....its a good colour ¬_¬
I love the fire eater class that you just introduced, but the wizard stands out as my favourite thus far. Intrigued and can't wait to see more. ------------- |
Posted By: Nickel11
Date Posted: 16 April 2009 at 8:09pm
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Woah, these are awesome, but they remind me more of Gameboy Color sprites.
What's with the witch's changing shading? |
Posted By: TMH
Date Posted: 17 April 2009 at 3:46am
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when the heart is broke the witch was before edit and when its mended its after edit
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Posted By: Randommonkies
Date Posted: 17 April 2009 at 1:55pm
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thanks guys! Ya, the broken heart = before the edit, hence it looking worse Nickel: I'm using NES specs and basing it off of the style of the original final fantasy game hopefully More to come, I think I need a few more big bad guys and maybe another boss down the road. Right now the rough story for the beginning of the game is based loosely on Beowulf , the boss at the top being Grendle |
Posted By: Randommonkies
Date Posted: 19 April 2009 at 8:42pm
 added the stalker and imp classes, as you can tell on the sheet at the top I haven't decided on the colours yet, but that's only a matter of time |
Posted By: skooba-dude
Date Posted: 19 April 2009 at 10:21pm
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I like the green imp with black clothes and stalker with dark aqua.
These are very nice, better than original sprites IMO. ------------- 
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Posted By: JosephSeraph
Date Posted: 19 April 2009 at 10:25pm
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Hey... Are you gonna use these sprites somewhere? Or just for the heck of it ( heck of it= pratice)
They´re verrrrrry good.. There´s a spriter, creating a game, called paradise blue, his demo also uses many custom sprites in NES limitations, though i like your better. |
Posted By: Randommonkies
Date Posted: 19 April 2009 at 11:01pm
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Skooba-dude; Ya I originally intended to completely mimic the original style of the game, but after one or two sprites I just stuck with my own style and color palettes, its still all to the specs of the NES and the game, and still heavily influenced by FF1 JosephSeraph: Just making it for the heck/practice of it. I Always make stuff with game ideas in mind, and usually plan the story etc., I just don't have the code know-how to make a game. I guess my art is basically compilation of broken dreams :( note: i think the lighting on the imp looks a bit funny, I'm look into fixing that |
Posted By: JosephSeraph
Date Posted: 19 April 2009 at 11:08pm
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Do you know of a little magical program called RPG Maker? If you´re interested then add me: filhodamallu@hotmail.com
You will be very pleased. |
Posted By: MFlanaga
Date Posted: 21 April 2009 at 9:27am
Hey!!  These are the bee's knees!!! If you want to put those in a game, I know of one where they'd be really really appreciated, it's already coded and everything. They really need some good artists, and if you submit enough stuff the creator might pay you for more-- because those are better than mine! Now I must push myself to improve... |
Posted By: Dr D
Date Posted: 23 April 2009 at 12:40pm
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I don't know if anyone's mentioned it yet, but if these sprites would be at all useable, they'd probably have black included in them, making it 4 colors, since, black is included. I'm no expert but most NES sprites I've seen only had 2 'colors' + black + transparency. Yours have 3 'colors', so they slightly deviate from the NES feeling, but despite that, and I might be wrong about it, too, they're really, very, great. But, yeah. It's easier to be amazing with less restrictions. |
Posted By: Randommonkies
Date Posted: 23 April 2009 at 12:43pm
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JS: ya, I've heard about it, and did a little research on it a while ago, nothing too thorough though. Best way to contact me is via gmail, same name. MFL: sounds sweet, any more info you can give me on that? |
Posted By: Randommonkies
Date Posted: 23 April 2009 at 1:06pm
| Dr. D: actually if you look at the characters in the game, all but 3 of the enemies have at least 3 colours, not including black. |
Posted By: Dr D
Date Posted: 23 April 2009 at 2:36pm
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I see, I see, but they were over black backgrounds, most, if not all, of the time, were they not? (Not being rhetorical, never played the game.) If so, then they could have just used transparency over those areas to make it appear like they're using black. But I suppose if you're doing it the same way, it's no problem at all, good work. =] Wizard and Skeleton Warrior are my favorite so far. |
Posted By: Randommonkies
Date Posted: 24 April 2009 at 12:10pm
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thats true for all the enemies (like the ones I'm doing above) but they actually did it for the overworld sprites as well. The overworld sprites having 3 colours and black. (see below) I've been looking at a couple other games to answer this question and i think you can use up to 3 colours, 1 permanent colour , (say black) and then transparency, I'm kinda new to the technical side of this so i may be wrong, but i've noticed a lot of characters with three colours, black outline and transparency. For example: Koopas from Mario 3, unless they are using some technical trick.  speaking of overworld, I will post my own version soon! |
Posted By: Randommonkies
Date Posted: 07 May 2009 at 12:03am
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Posted By: Randommonkies
Date Posted: 07 May 2009 at 12:08am
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finally, managed to post some overworld. Juts a doodle/idea for a forest maze area. the centre will have a castle or giant tree, leaning towards castle though. I've been meaning to post more frequently but i've been moving and working a lot :( I've also done the map on the 'town' level. I'll post some more later, I even have some villager sprites that can walk around. My overworld map is breaking more from the FF style. I have my forest like those in Chrono Trigger, as in impassable save for the tunnels, and i have to say my recent wii download of star tropics has had some inspiration for the map as well. more to come! |
Posted By: MrWeirdGuy
Date Posted: 07 May 2009 at 11:37pm
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Whoa, that overworld is beautiful. It almost looks too beautiful to be possible on a real NES. |
Posted By: MFlanaga
Date Posted: 14 May 2009 at 10:37am
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Woweee!! You should definitely post some of your work at the forum link I'm about to send you... I'll put in a good word and maybe get you set up with the programmer to see if he can use your stuff!! It's awesome! |
Posted By: Slemsvamp.
Date Posted: 15 May 2009 at 5:20pm
| Colourful work there, looks very neat indeed! |
Posted By: Buddy90
Date Posted: 18 December 2009 at 6:01pm
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To clarify, the NES can do 4 colors per tile. A tile is 8x8. So if you see a sprite with more than 4 colors including transparency, its probably bigger than a tile. Like with Megaman, his armor is 3 colors and transparency, but his face is a different tile. And those sprites look really good, btw. |