I found the Ultima games to be really interesting, with the whole no BBEG or the amount of interactions the games have, never got to play one tho.
Here are some of the characters from the nes port of 4, since it's the prettiest of the bunch. (My favorite is the skeleton)
They are all 12x12 of course |
NES doesn't support 12x12 sprites. Only 64 8x16 sprites or 8x8 sprites. To draw 12x12 sprite you need to use two 8x16 sprites, in effect wasting 4 pixels on both sides. I have managed to do 8x8 sprites, and 8x16 should be a bit easier.