I just want to genuinely thank everyone for participating. 

It's been amazing seeing people's interpretatons from a community I've been part of for many years now. Wether you've played the game or just felt like making something, thank you! Seeing these entries pop up was always the highlight of my day.

Congratulations to the winners!

Very happy with how this turned out. I tend to drone on a bit, but hopefully it'll contribute in some way.

Nice name detail by the way, Gecimen.

Since this happens to be posted here. Figure I'd mention the source code for Savant Ascent is available in this one as well. In case you want some insight into how the artwork I produced was put to use and whatnot.

That's strange. It looks like the PNG has some color artifacts in it. It's definitely not intended to have this many duplicate colors. Thank you for pointing that out. I'll get an edit up when possible.

Thanks guys! Didn't realise both pieces were submitted the same month. Feel like I'm hogging space here.

Still, really appreciate the vote of confidence. Hoping to post more stuff. Been building up a bit of a backlog.

I'm sitting here working on Owlboy as I type this, so not at all.

While I'm sure I'll hate the designs later, the idea for Nina came from BOF2's black wings. I figured if the winged people become rare, she would be regarded as devine, and would grow up as an aloof, sheltered monarch. Ruy would be one of her castle's prisoners, and would originally be from the plains. (I liked that feeling about Ruy's design from BOF4)

I would love to animate this, though I'm afraid I would be too tempted to keep working on the game if I did.

Capcom picked the BOF name because it would bring free publicity. I'm just not a big fan of this kind of tactic. I feel like the hard work of the series deserved more.

Actually, the idea was to use Gongs and Goos since they are the most reoccuring enemies in BOF. The thing is, I wanted something that fit with the walled off sewer theme (a water mine fit that and I already had an idea for a design) but you want to add something new to trigger the imagination a little bit. If I just went for old enemies, it would just be me mimmicking the series, not so much what could be.

Granted. In retrospect I'd probably redesign the Rattler enemy.

I'm sitting here making art assets for Owlboy right now, and have been for years. It's on it's way, just hang in there.

 I didn't catch this at ALL! Thank you so much guys.

I'll be sure to upload some of the sprites so you can get a look at the work that went into it's production.

 Was great fun lending a hand, however brief it was. Great to see you're getting the attention you deserve!

 Good point. I'll get on that next, hahaha!

 Seriously? Two? Well, this definitely made my morning. Thank you everyone!

 Thanks everyone! There were some beautiful pieces up there. Congratulations to everyone else!

 Thanks a lot guys! It's nice to see some famillear faces again.

I'll try to update this place a bit more regularly. Maybe get an avatar up finally, hahaha!

PCFox: I checked the link, and I can assure you I am not this person's "best friend". These sprites were made for the challenge on this site by me alone and were not donated to anyone. I'd say this was obvious, but I can understand that you'd want to make sure. You have to expect this to happen every once in a while I suppose.

The picture was made the way it was because my PC broke down at the time. As for using msPaint, I just enjoy using it despite having access to Photoshop CS3 and whatnot. It works for me. I've never insiunated that anyone should be impressed by this picture and quite frankly, I'm surprised how people read so much into what I basically made as a christmas gift, but if it inspires people to create more art, then I'm certainly happy about that.

For now though, I'm busy making something better.

Thanks for the wellwishes guy's. Cake has been eaten and all is well.

The B.O.B... you're making me crave an eyepatch.

Og jeg takker så meget Mirre :9