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[GhostBomb]

This is a Zelda-like project I've been working on.  Can't tell you much information about it right now but I have uploaded a small 4 room demo if you want to try it out.

http://gamejolt.com/games/action/azure-engine-demo/13825/



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I'm taking a break from my main project for a game that'll hopefully take me no more than 3 months but that seems rather optimistic.

This game will be a very short action/adventure game heavily inspired by Link to the Past.  Right now I've got down the very basics like how the character moves but I have a very important decision coming up that could change how the entire game is made.

I went into this project assuming that everything in LttP was viewed at a 45% angle, so all of the floor tiles were squashed and you move twice as fast horizontally as you do vertically, but when I looked at some LttP screenshots it was clear that everything was viewed from a completely top down view and that only the character sprites were at a 45% angle.

So now I have to decide if I leave the environment and movement at 45% or have it completely flat like in the original LttP.

[GhostBomb]

Quick update:  I'm working on some tiles.  This is still a work of progress and I'm planning adding a few touches.

[poe]

The stone floor reads as a wall for me, but I love the actual walls!

[seagaia]

Looking forward to what you do with the Zelda mechanics!

[GhostBomb]

I've started working on my sprite for the main character.  I honestly don't know why I chose to make the hero a girl.  It was the first thing I could think of with my color palette and size restrictions.





Also I've unsaturated the floor quite a bit, but I don't want to take up too much room with pictures so I'll save showing you my progress with the room until I've made enough changes.

[DustyDrake]

Well, I'd rethink the design honestly, because this:

Does not really look right.
Looks like someone dropped a Zelda 1 Link into a LttP area.

[seagaia]

yeah, player might benefit from gaining a little bit of weight.

[GhostBomb]

Noticed that too :/

I'll rethink the design.

I'm having trouble designing a character that looks good in this perspective.  I'm too used to making platforming sprites.

Perhaps if I made her bigger and drew her at an angle so the sprite is a bit more square it could work.

[GhostBomb]

So I reworked the sprite:

[Lain]

I can already tell from the thread title that this is going to be awesome

[HernanZh]

The sprite still looks really tiny. Any reason why you're not making LTTP-like sprites?

[DustyDrake]

So I reworked the sprite:

Okay while yes, what seagaia said was true, the character was thin, the character looks out of place art style-wise.

[saluk]

I'm never opposed to zelda ripoffs!

[GhostBomb]

So I reworked the sprite:

Okay while yes, what seagaia said was true, the character was thin, the character looks out of place art style-wise.

In what way?  While the background is definitely Zelda-esque, I'm not going to try to copy LttP with any of my sprites.

[IzzyReggie]

So I reworked the sprite:

Okay while yes, what seagaia said was true, the character was thin, the character looks out of place art style-wise.

In what way?  While the background is definitely Zelda-esque, I'm not going to try to copy LttP with any of my sprites.

Well, a large part of it is the seemingly much lower resolution, which leads to lack of shading and detail (which the walls and floor are full of). It also doesn't have outlines, which, to me, doesn't fit with the floors/walls (although, perhaps with more shading and detail, it could fit? Not sure)