yeah, it's really fun, been having fun in the demoscene lately so hopefully I can do some GBC stuff at some point too :D Ironically I did many of these mockups in 160x144 GBC res before expanding them, and some read better at that aspect honestly.

The real GBC restrictions with BGtiles(8*4)+Sprite(8*3+A) 56 colors is quite fascinating too, A lot of the subtler stuff in some of these might be a bit too far. although the most colors in any tileset is 64 including alpha. but yeah probably 20+ unique palette combos tho and not like 16 haha. some titlescreens abusing sprite overlays on original hardware looked really dang nice.

I did 4 explorations with that tileset, many of them aren't used in what I included here lol Yeah I made the palette :) I improved one of the colors I hadn't used immediately after the deadline lol so I'll update that after the challenge, or if i remember include an updated version in the description at some point ^ ^

Also I've started to write my own SDL3 framework that uses a bunch of cool palettized stuff including fairly fleshed out 2-bit tilemap based stuff. which like this supports 90d rotation (GBC and most retro systems didn't explicitly support per-tile rotation without a mapper (or slower routines) that transfered swizzled ROM data into memory, or realtime 'superscaler' effects). So might use these or something similar for some free itch io games at some point (:

Thanks for all the lovely comments everyone! 
No promises but I may make this or something very similar into a game at some point. 

Amazing, absolutely love it, nailed the vibe, decay never looked so delightful 

well a comment got randomly added somehow and can't delete it lol 

I'm in!

thanks ya'll 

He'd certainly be a comfy cuddle 

fixed,  I don't even understand how that's possible when using Indexed color mode explicitly.

Edit: found out why, GIMP 2.99/3.0dev has issues when having layers with no alpha channel, it can screw up indexes and even use colors out of indexed palette including old variants of colors. really weird  saving and reloading the project file seems to fix it? but yeah it exports the errors if they are present 

oh yeah i should have just put that tbh 

thanks for the concession, yeah I wouldn't have decided on it if it was for an individual weekly challenge, and ofc each comp'd piece is strictly 64x64. Figured the pros of less clutter in the voting and in my gallery were enough to justify it for this particular challenge.  

danke  

love it  great work! a buffet
and some real mesmerizing loops and great glitch effects too 

@Weerdmeester glad it paid off, haha glad it works, I saw some dwarf drawings the arms had muscles on the muscles, not very anatomical but looks so rad, so kinda channeled that energy a lil, bulgin' n ripplin' 

@Umbohr haha 

@MoreOfAGoofus glad  oh yeah I can see that haha accidentally more appropriate than I anticipated 

@MiERDINSKY thanks 

@FancyPudding haha yeah there is some anatomical indication of that...  cheers 

haha yeah can easily imagine them slapping around cartoonishly as they waddle :D

haha glad it's not just me. 

hmm it does seem vaguely familiar, oh yeah definitely, think I will look up more, I love what I have seen in japanese media on occasion! :D

(also how the heck do you use those pj emotes here? O: oh i can copy paste them from your comment lol )

oh wow that's cool just looked it up  I had only seen something like that in the SegaSaturn/PS1 game Baroque, one of the NPCs is like that. hehe icky  I kind of find him cute somehow lol

@Trigonomicon ayy glad you liked it  yeah do feel it evokes a classic vibe, it's funny how this one came about, after importing the original pfp I saw the palette displaying wrong in the layer preview, and it looked really striking and cool so I just screencapped that and copied how it was remapped and ran with it.  actually i still have that screenshot here: imgur.com/8PPocp9

@Tipleloop ahh yeah I was actually going to animate it, at least in the preview but ran out of time. 

I'm In!

Likes: anything eldritch and or surreal and or dark fantasy and or anything grimdark or grotesque. alternatively or in combination industrial punk stuff. or if it's too far out of your comfort zone; I don't mind idylic nature oriented stuff too (bonus if combined with one or multiple of the above in some way).

Dislike: anything too political, relating to real modern warfare, non-fictional violence, overly sexualized content (fine with nsfw as long as it's tasteful), anything too mundane.

thanks. 

I was a bit concerned I made a mistake and made it worse by adding the rim lighting but glad it's still worthy of being considered gorgeous. 

@EdnodiusGreenius perhaps they asked it if they were going to still exist within the year and the answer was "unlikely" would probably have a similar effect. 

thanks ya'll 
 @rogue_frog haha yeah me too the lips were probably the most enjoyable aspect to do 

this is awesome, great rendering of the light hitting him, and the subtle blood soaked appendages is chillingly effective, great work 

lol black fireworks

not bad  

  thanks for the comments and positive feedback guys :D 
 

Jimi was an awesome ecclectic and eccentric individual for sure <3

@damicon yeah might get around to adjusting that, I settled on a dark band because I recall the other choices seemed to clash with surrounding colours.

looking better ^ ^ nice additional changes too, and creepy new laughing preview :P