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[Dugan]

I've been playing with made up restrictions using a garish 16 color palette (light and dark red, yellow, green, cyan, blue and magenta plus black, white and 2 grays).

Screen is 160x240 with one colour per 8x8 tile/sprite. Pew! ♥

Awesome ZX Spectrummyness 

[wademcgillis]

I stopped development of my game because of Kevin's pictures. If your game doesn't have good graphics, why should you continue development? Kevin's pictures beat the graphics of my metroid-ish game by a lot. His game wins, so I gave up.

 

[Lizardheim]

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[Kevin]

haha thanks guys! ♥

peanutbuttershoes: I agree, actually. I made some changes that hopefully take care of it:


^{(Still fine tuning the tiling, but you get the idea)}

Kramlack: Haha! Full game... you're so silly. ♥ _{(Seriously though, maybe).}

Geti: I'm playing it pretty loose on that end, so... we'll say the latter. If I ever do anything with this, I plan to allow for particles and sprite rotation and stuff, so...

Dugan: I actually thought about using the Speccy's palette, but based on the examples I found, its darks are just too bright. I'm happy it still gives off that vibe!

Wade McGillis: GET BACK TO WORK!

[DrDerekDoctors]

I've been playing with made up restrictions using a garish 16 color palette (light and dark red, yellow, green, cyan, blue and magenta plus black, white and 2 grays).

Screen is 160x240 with one colour per 8x8 tile/sprite. Pew! ♥

Mmm... Spectru-yummy!

[happymonster]

Lovely Speccy look.

[Kramlack]

@Kevin: Would it be possible to change the colours between the two ground tiles, like so? I think it helps give a bit of depth this way.

[wademcgillis]

@Kramlack:

a garish 16 color palette (light and dark red, yellow, green, cyan, blue and magenta plus black, white and 2 grays).

He could try dark yellow, but not brown.

[peanutbuttershoes]

^{(Still fine tuning the tiling, but you get the idea)}

Yeah, that is TONS better.

[Kevin]

@Kevin: Would it be possible to change the colours between the two ground tiles, like so? I think it helps give a bit of depth this way.

Hmm... Agreed. I tried it out, actually, using dark yellow like Wade suggested but my current dark yellow is too bright. I worked on the tiling and managed to achieve a look I'm mostly happy with, but I'll experiment a bit more and see what happens.

[Kramlack]

@Kramlack:

a garish 16 color palette (light and dark red, yellow, green, cyan, blue and magenta plus black, white and 2 grays).

He could try dark yellow, but not brown.

Herp derp, I missed that. My bad.

Hmm... Agreed. I tried it out, actually, using dark yellow like Wade suggested but my current dark yellow is too bright. I worked on the tiling and managed to achieve a look I'm mostly happy with, but I'll experiment a bit more and see what happens.

Well if you like it, then by all means, stick with it. It's really just my opinion that I think it would give it a nicer feel of depth with some tiles being darker.

[nexus]

reminded me of this http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ewUlVZf-KDQ/TmoxqkKL8ZI/AAAAAAAAAS0/ge7nxihDeLU/s1600/Scumbag_wallpaper1920x1080.jpg

and yeah, im 2 years late. was just looking through all of these images.

[saint11]

Just a completely random mockup I just did:


Why do I always draw astronauts in my game ideas?

[ANtY]

Just a completely random mockup I just did:


Why do I always draw astronauts in my game ideas?

Cuz they smell funny  

I like your mockups style

[Manuel Magalhães]

I stopped development of my game because of Kevin's pictures. If your game doesn't have good graphics, why should you continue development? Kevin's pictures beat the graphics of my metroid-ish game by a lot. His game wins, so I gave up.

 

While I think graphics are important for a game, you shouldn't give up because of that. Practice makes it perfect, or team up with an artist.