That first design I posted earlier was designed on the spot, but today I drew up the designs for almost all the others. Do you think I should show those off, or keep them a surprise for when you find them in the game?

Thank you very much, both of you!
Only nine more of these characters to design and animate to go!

I am aware of Soul Eater, but I don't take any inspiration from it.

Taking some time aside to work on something in the game that's been suggested to me before. Finally thought of a way to make it work correctly, and I've already got the sprites done for one of them, shown here.

There's very little one could actually critique about this, though something in me would like to recommend picking one anime style and going with that.

There's two shots where the characters look Cave Story/Disgaea (simple line eyes, unshaded hair), others that give me a 90's Gunsmith Cats-ish vibe, and one where you seem to have a *real* old-school Heidi style going on.
It's a really nitpicky thing to point out, and I might just be missing a clever meta-joke, but in case you're not set on these images yet, I'd humbly suggest considering it...

I'm not really sure what you mean, Miguelito. Maybe it helps if I explain those screenshots a bit better. The first two on top are from a cutscene, the next one down on the left is the game's shop, the next one is gameplay, cutscene, and then the last three are all gameplay. Some points in the game have faces and things like that in the background, and they're not meant to be taken at face value. The farther along into the game you go, the more surreal the backgrounds can get.

I do my best at making the sprites in gameplay all have the same sort of style, but at the same time, some enemies are meant to look out of place, due to their nature.

Thank you! I appreciate the compliment.
Here's another sample of some lunar background assets I made yesterday

Thank you! I appreciate it! Those more vividly colored screens are from the surface of the moon.

I posted these in the screenshot saturday thread, but I might as well share them here too.

Thank you! No, I have never played that other game, sadly.
I appreciate the comment

After working through several nights, I finally put in a cutscene that I've been planning, storyboarding, and illustrating for about a month. Here's a preview, plus some scattered stage screenshots.
I hope a cluster of small ones is fine:

The art, concepts, everything is amazing! I'm looking forward to this!

Ah, this looks beautiful! I'm loving all the blues that you seem to mix into everything. Nice cool colors all around.

I'm working through the night.
Finally, I've started assembling an emotional cutscene that I've been planning out for months now. Some samples of the sprites/images:

Sorry to hear about the misfortune. I look forward to seeing this all come together, though!

My game needs more minibosses.

Ah. Whatever I've come down with hit me the hardest this morning, I even had to call off work. I'm sure I'll get better soon, though, thanks.
As for the question asked, this is being made in Game Maker 8.0 Pro.

As usual, I can't actually show much that I've been working on due to it all being spoilers and bonus stage things.
But, I just got around to fixing this up:


(actual x3 screen size shown here)

I've been thinking of putting a little dancing character somewhere on this screen to liven it up a bit, what do you think?

Work might be slowed for a while, though, since I've gotten myself sick again.
I apologize for the upcoming delay.

Hm... as usual, it's hard to understand your wording. I was just asking what you did in the game to cause that error, so I can understand how to fix it.

As I said, I did do some programming to try and fix the bug. How did you happen to get that error message?

Wow, thank you! I appreciate the support!

Ahh, yes, I've noticed the pause thing. I don't know exactly why it does that, but I'll be working on fixing it.